Tensions between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the United States flared Thursday as a US government representative called a proposal to sanction countries that withdraw agreed upon funding “a direct attack on the United States.” A virtual meeting of WADA’s Foundation Board saw officials from both the global watch-dog and the United States voicing the […]

Hospital workers fighting Italy’s spiralling coronavirus pandemic are overworked and dispirited, a doctor on the front line of the crisis reported Thursday. “We are feeling bad, very bad,” Doctor Claudio Zanon, head of the Valduce hospital in the northern province of Como, said in a video conference with the Foreign Press Association. “Unlike during the […]

Fourteen soldiers were killed after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso in one of the worst attacks on the army during a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, the government said. The attack took place Wednesday in the country’s north, near the border with Mali and Niger, and came ahead of presidential and legislative elections on […]

Financial compensation for energy firms hit by the German government’s plan to phase out nuclear power must be completely reworked after the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of a legal challenge by Vattenfall on Thursday. Germany’s energy transition policy came as a reaction to Japan’s devastating Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. In the wake of […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak, were on Monday diagnosed with  COVID-19, and are currently in isolated wards at the hospital, online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda reported on Thursday. “Everything is quite strict, regulated by protocol. They are in Feofania hospital. There is a special office where the […]