Israel’s two leading parties, on Monday, held marathon negotiations in a frantic bid to reach a coalition agreement ahead of the one-week Jewish Passover holiday, which starts at sundown on Wednesday. According to a senior source in the centrist Blue and White party of former military chief,
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Oil prices rocketed Thursday after US President Donald Trump said Russia and Saudi Arabia planned to end their price war by slashing output. But gains for Brent North Sea crude of nearly 46 percent cooled to around 20 percent as Russia denied it had spoken with Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest exporter of crude. NANS […]
Confirmed coronavirus cases approached one million around the world on Thursday as Europe reeled from the pandemic and the United States reported record numbers of people out of work. The virus claimed thousands more lives in its relentless march across the globe, with Spain and Britain seeing the highest number of daily deaths yet, despite […]
Spain’s prime minister said Sunday he would ask parliament to extend a state of emergency until April 11 to try to curb the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded 394 new deaths from the disease. A nationwide 15-day state of emergency was first announced on March 14 and it bars people in the nation […]
Israel plans to use anti-terrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. Cyber tech monitoring would be deployed to locate people who have been in contact with those carrying the virus, subject to cabinet approval, Netanyahu told a news […]
The final missing person trapped in a collapsed hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China was found dead on Thursday, bringing the accident’s death toll to 29, according to state media. Xinjia Hotel, in the Licheng district of Quanzhou, collapsed on Saturday evening, trapping a total of 71 people. Rescuers were able […]
Italian authorities were struggling on Monday to restore order in prisons up and down the country after coronavirus-related riots led to six inmates’ deaths and dozens of escapes. Inmates are concerned about the risk of being infected in prison and are angry at a recent government decision to restrict visits as part of a national […]
Turkey has sent 1,000 police officers to its border with Greece to stop the pushback of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe. “We have deployed 1,000 fully equipped special force police as of this morning to prevent the pushbacks,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in Edirne, a city near the border. Soylu claimed Greek […]
A 70-year-old man has died in northern Iraq after contracting the novel coronavirus, the official Iraqi News Agency reported on Wednesday, the first death in the Arab world. The man is a mosque cleric in the city of Sulaimaniyah city, in Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. Read also: Inter Milan president calls Serie A counterpart […]
Prime minister – Mahathir Mohamad on Monday resigned as Malaysia’s prime minister and his Bersatu party has quit the governing Alliance of Hope coalition. Mahathir’s move comes after a weekend of drama, with parties from both government and coalition meeting all day Sunday and Anwar Ibrahim, the designated successor to Mahathir, alleging
Three men on Thursday were handed jail sentences for the spectacular March 2017 theft of a 100-kilogramme gold coin from the Bode Museum in the centre of Berlin. Read also: Brazilian senator shot at military police protest A fourth person was found not guilty by the court in the German capital. Two of the men, […]
There are conditions on all the terms of a deal being mooted with Taliban militants aimed at ending the longest American war in history, US officials have told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan presidential palace said on Saturday. In a meeting conducted on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, US Secretary […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday on was formally indicted in court on corruption charges after he withdrew his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution. Netanyahu was in Washington for meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of the release of Trump’s long-delayed Israel-Palestinian peace plan when Israel’s attorney-general filed the
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection. This comes just days after he returned home following surgery to relieve bleeding on the brain. Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for The Carter Center, said in a statement that the 95-year-old former president […]
Iranian beauty queen detained for almost two weeks at an airport in the Philippines on Tuesday pleaded for help, saying she fears for her life. Bahareh Zare Bahari, was held after arriving in Manila from Dubai on Oct. 17 based on a request for her arrest by Interpol, the Bureau of Immigration said. READ ALSO: […]
Lebanese Foreign Minister, Gebran Bassil, said the government must not impose new taxes and should carry out drastic reforms to stop corruption. The minister said this on Friday, but also warned that protests could lead to chaos and strife. READ ALSO Lebanon crisis: President Aoun demands Saudi answers over Hariri resignation In the first official […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s brother has reportedly begun a five-year prison sentence for corruption. Hossein Fereydoun, who was a close adviser to the president, entered Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday, his lawyer told local media. READ ALSO North Korean leader climbs up scared mountain on a horse (photos) He was convicted of “receiving
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has climbed the country’s highest mountain on horseback, according to state media. READ ALSO Queen Elizabeth appoints Nigerian as House of Common Serjeant at Arms North Korean leader rides horse up sacred mountain. The mountain holds a special place in the country’s identity and is feted as the birthplace of […]
The Duchess of Cambridge echoed Princess Diana today when she put on the same traditional Chitrali hat worn by Prince William’s late mother during her own visit to Pakistan nearly three decades ago. William and Kate donned the Pakistani outfits after they stepped out from a helicopter among the Hindu Kush mountains in the Chitral […]
South Africa was hit by power cuts on Wednesday after some generating units broke down, state utility Eskom said.They were the first nationwide power cuts in around six months in South Africa which has become used to blackouts due to technical and financial problems at Eskom. READ ALSO Queen Elizabeth appoints Nigerian as House of […]
