Dam construction on the Blue Nile close to Ethiopia’s border with Sudan has heightened regional tensions. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/3/31/will-egypt-attack-ethiopia
Divers inspected the underside of a colossal container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt, spotting some damage to the bow but not enough to take it out of service, officials said Wednesday. The dives were part of a continuing investigation into what […]
The head of the World Health Organization’s Americas body has warned that the region could see a worse spike in coronavirus infections than the one it experienced last year, as several countries are struggling to contain mounting infections and deaths. In a news briefing on […]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is raising its estimate for the rebound in global trade in goods but warning that the COVID-19 pandemic still poses the greatest threat to a recovery that is being hampered by lagging vaccinations, regional disparities and weakness in the service […]
Istanbul, Turkey – With a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on March 20, Turkey’s pullout from the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence was sudden, but not unexpected. Turkey’s opposition parties appealed to the State […]
Germany lost a World Cup qualifying game for the first time in 20 years on Wednesday as the 2014 champions were beaten 2-1 by North Macedonia. Germany levelled after Goran Pandev’s opening goal in first-half stoppage time but had no answer to Eljif Elmas’ 85th-minute […]
The corporate tax-cut party President Donald Trump kicked off will soon be over if his successor proves able to enact proposals to roll back half of the 2017 domestic income-tax reduction and to radically revamp levies on profits earned abroad. President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion […]
A cashier who was one of the last people to speak with George Floyd before his deadly arrest on May 25 last year has testified at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in the US city of Minneapolis that Floyd appeared to be high on drugs but […]
Gunmen killed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a village in the Ethiopian region of Oromia, witnesses said on Wednesday, the latest outbreak of ethnic violence to challenge the federal government. Farmer Wossen Andaege, 50, said his neighbours were killed during the Tuesday […]
The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that pave the way for access to medical care and assistance with gender transition, defence officials told The Associated Press news agency. The […]
