Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi poses in his office during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) By AAMER MADHANI, ROBERT BURNS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi are expected to announce on Monday that they’ve come

Russian coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. By BRIAN NGUGI A member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) royal family has been implicated in a multi-million shilling botched deal to supply one million Russian Covid-19 vaccines to Kenya. A news report by Russian newspaper Moscow Times named Aurugulf

People walk past a bank’s electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Monday, July 26, 2021. Asian shares opened mixed on Monday after stocks rallied to records on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above the 35,000 level for the first time. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) By

Crowds gather on the street after Tunisia’s president suspended parliament, in La Marsa, near Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Layli Foroudi/via REUTERS Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu attend the Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia July 25, 2021. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS By Reuters MOSCOW, July 25 (Reuters) – The Russian navy can detect any enemy and launch an “unpreventable strike” if needed, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, weeks after a

Abdulrahim Abby Farah By Rachel Nurse A NEW podcast from the Welsh Political Icons series celebrates the life of Barry-born Welsh-Somali diplomat Abdulrahim Abby Farah, who led the United Nations mission to South Africa to end the country’s apartheid regime. Farah was born in Barry in 1919, living on Thompson Street and attending Gladstone Primary

David Taylor’s son has begged foreign secretary Dominic Raab, above, to intervene in his father’s case. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock By Mark Townsend ‘David Taylor’ claims hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding was to persuade him to cooperate with the CIA A British citizen has claimed he was tortured in Somalia and questioned by US intelligence officers,

Naomi Osaka, of Japan, plays against Saisai Zheng, of China, during the first round of the tennis competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) By ANDREW DAMPF TOKYO (AP) — Naomi Osaka is back playing, still winning, and also talking to the media again. The Japanese

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event for Virginia democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Lubber Run Park, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The US has broken its “long silence” with new airstrikes “against those who exploit the vacuum left by its withdrawal.” Reports from

Yang Qian, of China, reacts after winning the gold medal in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at the Asaka Shooting Range in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) TOKYO (AP) — Hardly half a day passed before politics, the pandemic and blistering heat impacted events across the