A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival. Body parts of victims lay scattered across the previously bustling market, which had been crowded with shoppers […]
Washington, DC – The Israel-Palestine conflict is expected to take up much of the discussion between United States President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah II when the Jordanian leader visits the White House on Monday for the first time since Biden was elected. The meeting comes two months […]
Resurgent pandemic worries knocked stocks sharply lower on Wall Street Monday, with declines fuelled by fears that faster-spreading variants of the coronavirus may upend the United States’ economic recovery. The SP 500 closed 1.59 percent lower, after setting a record just a week earlier. In […]
Bosnia’s minister of foreign affairs has called on the Serbian president to distance himself from controversial comments recently made by Serbia’s interior minister calling to “unite the Serbian world”. “The task for this generation of politicians is to form a Serbian world, that is to […]
Pacific Gas Electric (PGE) equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation’s largest utility reported to California regulators. PGE said in a report on Sunday to the California Public Utilities Commission that a […]
Ben Jerry’s ice cream said Monday it was going to stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying the sales are “inconsistent with our values”. Israeli settlements in occupied territory are widely seen by the international community as illegal […]
The United States will begin evacuating Afghans who assisted US forces in Afghanistan to a military base in Virginia as they wait for a special visa process to be completed, the US State Department announced on Monday. About 2,500 Afghans who have already applied to […]
Canada will allow American tourists who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the country as of August 9, the Canadian government has announced, ending a 16-month ban on most non-essential travel between the neighbouring countries. In a statement on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s […]
Intense gunfire from bandits caused a Nigerian fighter jet to crash in northwestern Zamfara state, but the pilot survived by ejecting from the aircraft. Nigeria’s air force said on Monday the crash occurred on Sunday as the Alpha jet, a light attack aircraft, was returning […]
Authorities in Belarus raided the offices of an independent newspaper and arrested three of its journalists on Monday as part of a relentless crackdown on media outlets and civil society activists. Alyaksandr Mantsevich, editor of the Regionalnaya Gazeta (Regional Newspaper), and journalists Zoya Khrutskaya and […]
