Airlines across the world have cancelled flights for a third day in a row on Sunday as crews are grounded amid surging COVID-19 infections due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, forcing tens of thousands of Christmas travellers to change their plans. More than 6,000 […]
More than 6,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more were delayed, according to a tracking website, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions. Globally, airlines scrapped about 2,200 flights as of Sunday morning, down […]
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have said women seeking to travel long distances should not be offered road transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. The guidance issued on Sunday by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which also […]
A high-ranking United Nation’s official says he is “horrified” by reports that at least 35 civilians have been killed and their bodies burned in eastern Myanmar, demanding the government launch a “thorough and transparent investigation”. Two workers for non-profit group Save the Children remained missing […]
Cape Town, South Africa – A general gloom has settled over South Africa as tributes – and some criticism – pour in following the death of anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu. An ethnically diverse group of mourners gathered on Sunday outside St George’s Cathedral Church […]
From Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, the fall of Kabul to Taliban to the refugee crisis on Belarus-Poland border – a wrap of the best pictures. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/12/26/2021-in-pictures-best-photos-from-around-the-world
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said the country intends to double the number of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than 50 years ago. Bennett said […]
Acknowledging that the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated some family problems, Pope Francis has encouraged married couples to seek help and always remember three key words in a marriage: “Please, thanks and sorry.” Francis penned a letter to married couples that was released on Sunday, a […]
The death of South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a veteran of the struggle against apartheid and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has seen condolences pour in from leaders around the world. Tutu died on Sunday aged 90. South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced the […]
Tbilisi, Georgia – In the 1980s, when Manana Natchkebia was in her twenties and worked in an aeronautical factory in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, she would relish her holidays to Moscow. At the time, Georgia was one of 15 Soviet republics that made up […]
