Demonstrators march in Khartoum, Sudan November 13, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a video. RASD SUDAN NETWORK via REUTERS By Reuters Five protesters were killed on Saturday as huge crowds defied gunfire and tear gas in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other cities to demonstrate against a military takeover, witnesses and medics said. The

File – Doctor Petruta Filip, right, and a colleague place an oxygen mask on a man in the COVID-19 section at the University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination rates are low, but politicians have hesitated to impose the measures curb

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte arrives with daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio to attend the enthronement ceremony of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo, Japan October 22, 2019. Carl Court/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo By Reuters The daughter of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte filed her candidacy for the vice presidency, her spokesperson said on Saturday, ending months of speculation about

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia has revised its electoral calendar, again, but vowed to implement the new timetable that now effectively means the polls will run beyond Christmas Day, more than a year after the initial programme was released, According to Daily Nation reported. After chairing a National Consultative Forum (NCF) meeting, Somalia’s Prime Minister on

Ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital, in London, Tuesday Dec. 29, 2020. England Health Service figures show hospitals now have more Covid-19 patients than during April’s first-wave peak, with fears of increased figures because of a Christmas social spread. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP) The British government has stopped the recruitment of jobless nurses from Kenya

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hold a news conference following the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Dialogue talks at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP) By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the Gulf nation of Qatar has

The then-Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir with Boris Johnson in Jeddah, in January 2018 (AFP) Middle East Eye By Dania Akkad In wake of Pegasus hacking, supporting Gulf countries with cyber security aid may ‘pose a serious threat to our national security’, MPs tell Boris Johnson The UK government should cut off Saudi Arabia, the

Four thousand U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker counting currency at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking By Reuters The U.S. dollar edged higher on Friday and is on track for its biggest weekly rise in five months since a surprisingly strong U.S. inflation print shocked markets and prompted

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hold a news conference following the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Dialogue talks at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP) By Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to three African countries next week, the State Department said

By Anadolu Agency Formation includes members of former Council along with new representatives Sudan’s army head Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan issued a decree Thursday to form a new transitional Sovereign Council, appointing himself its chairman. Al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hameti, kept their positions they had in the previous Council. The