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Latest on pandemic: Countries move to impose new restrictions as cases surge
Oct 28, 2020 12:19The number of people who have been afflicted with COVID-19 has now passed 44 million around the world, and the number of related fatalities is almost 1.16 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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Putin slams external pressure on Belarus as Macron meets opp. leader
Sep 29, 2020 13:58Russian President Vladimir Putin has decried the “unprecedented external pressure” exerted on neighboring Belarus, as French President Emmanuel Macron met with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania.
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Global coronavirus deaths pass 'agonizing milestone' of 1 million
Sep 29, 2020 12:31The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen past 1 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.
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13 detained after fire near second Greek refugee camp
Sep 16, 2020 10:49Thirteen people have been detained on the Greek island of Samos after a fire threatened the local migrant camp, police said Wednesday, days after another blaze destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp on Lesbos.
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Spain rescues 58 migrants at sea near Canary Islands
Sep 02, 2020 15:40A Spanish coast guard boat brought 58 migrants to the port of Arguineguin in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Wednesday, after rescuing them from three dinghies in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Denmark’s pharmaceutical giant opens insulin production line in Iran
Sep 02, 2020 05:38The world’s top maker of diabetes drugs Novo Nordisk of Denmark has opened a production line in Iran, with Health Minister Sa'eed Namaki saying he hoped it would soon become a drug distribution and production center in West Asia.
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Russia: US war games in Estonia ‘provocative, extremely dangerous’
Sep 01, 2020 16:59Russia says live-fire exercises by the United States in Estonia, near Russia’s western borders, are “provocative” and “extremely dangerous” as they would escalate tensions in Europe.
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Imam Hussein, martyred for justice
Aug 30, 2020 10:27Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shias' Imam, and his 72 companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala in southern Iraq in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I.
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Latin America passes 250K COVID-19 death toll amid warning of poverty surge
Aug 21, 2020 12:02The number of coronavirus fatalities across Latin America has surpassed the 250,000 mark as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the region that has become the world’s worst-hit so far.
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New Zealand’s prime minister postpones general elections
Aug 17, 2020 15:25New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has postponed the country’s general elections by a month under pressure from the opposition, which said the current coronavirus lockdown in the largest city of Auckland would work to their disadvantage.