Danny Fenster, the American journalist arrested last month by Myanmar authorities, has made an appearance in a special court in the prison where he is being held, his employer said. However, US consular officials are still being denied access to Fenster, State Department spokesman Ned […]
A number of countries have promised to provide Lebanon’s army with emergency aid to prevent its collapse in the face of the deepest political and economic crisis afflicting the nation – although they did not provide details on the assistance offered. Lebanese Army Chief Joseph […]
Lebanon’s energy minister said on Thursday that the country’s petrol subsidy was unsustainable and would eventually come to an end. “We have to get used to and be convinced that this subsidy that we benefitted from for a year or a year and a half […]
Israeli fighter jets have launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip for the second time since a shaky ceasefire ended last month’s 11-day war. Palestinian sources on the ground said Israeli missiles on Thursday hit several sites belonging to armed groups northwest […]
A decades-long climate change-fuelled drought in the western United States is drying reservoirs and contributing to an early wildfire season, scientists say. Flames have scorched more than a million acres (more than 404,000 hectares) across the country so far this year. More than 28,000 fires […]
President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed when they met in Brussels this week that Turkey would take a lead role in securing the Kabul airport as the United States withdraws troops from Afghanistan, a US official said. But the two leaders […]
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, has died at a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 97. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the Southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until 1991, […]
The United States Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era healthcare law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans. The justices left the entire law intact in a ruling on Thursday which found that the state of Texas, other Republican-led states and two […]
Former President Laurent Gbagbo has returned to Ivory Coast for the first time since his arrest nearly 10 years ago following his acquittal by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The 76-year-old arrived in the country’s economic hub, Abidjan, on Thursday on a commercial flight from […]
At Geneva summit, Russian and US leaders agree to reinstate ambassadors and begin talks on arms control, cybersecurity. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/6/17/can-the-us-and-russia-reset-their-relationship
