The Ethiopian government has announced it would pardon and release some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials. The announcement on Friday came after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling for “national reconciliation” […]
US President Joe Biden is expected to arrive in Colorado on Friday to assess the damage from recent winter wildfires that destroyed more than 1,000 homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee. Two people were missing and feared dead after the wind-driven […]
As many countries pushed to reopen their economies last year after months of lockdowns and tightly controlled borders, economists began to warn of a new looming crisis: the rising cost of food. The UN food agency says prices jumped 28 percent during the year, reaching […]
Alphabet Inc. fell on Friday, with the Google parent extending a drop that has resulted in its worst weekly performance since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Shares fell 0.5% in their fourth straight negative session. For the week, it dropped 5.4%, its biggest weekly […]
Washington, DC – Since early December, more than 200 migrants and refugees hoping to claim asylum in the United States have been sent back to Mexico to wait for their US court hearings, a rights organisation said, under a revived widely-condemned Trump-era immigration policy. The […]
The United States Supreme Court is mulling whether the Biden administration can require millions of workers at private companies and healthcare providers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face regular coronavirus testing. The top court justices heard more than three and a half hours of […]
Poland’s most powerful politician has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group, but denied that it was being used to target his political opponents. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s governing conservative party, Law and Justice, said […]
A volcano has erupted on an island in the Galapagos that is home to a critically endangered iguana, the Galapagos National Park announced on Friday, but it said the species was far from the affected area. The Wolf volcano’s slopes host the pink iguana, only […]
A judge in the United States has sentenced three men to life in prison for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, whose fatal 2020 shooting in the state of Georgia fuelled mass protests against racism and vigilantism. Georgia Judge Timothy Walmsley ruled on Friday that Travis […]
Before crucial talks between American and Russian diplomats next week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Moscow of “massive consequences” if it continues what he called aggressive actions in Europe, particularly its military buildup on the Ukrainian border. Speaking to reporters from the […]
