The members of Ethiopian House of Peoples Representatives (MPs) have on Wednesday endorsed the extension of the nation’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, term as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced the authorities to postpone elections slated for August. According to the state media, the PM may remain in power till international health institutions announced the pandemic […]

An Iranian man who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran’s slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani has been sentenced to death, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. On Jan. 3, a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force. Washington blamed Soleimani for […]

The Japanese doctor who discovered the mysterious “Kawasaki’s disease” ― recently in the headlines for some similarities to coronavirus ― has died of natural causes aged 95, his research NGO said Wednesday. Paediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki first noticed the disease in the 1960s as a junior doctor when he began treating children with fever, red eyes, […]

Spain is not discussing any travel corridor with Britain, a Spanish foreign ministry source told Reuters on Tuesday. The foreign ministry declared after a UK tourism lobby group said corridors allowing unrestricted movement with a number of countries would open from June 29. With the summer fast approaching, a key question is whether and how […]

The United States and Russia will discuss arms control in Vienna on June 22, months before a key nuclear weapons agreement expires, Russia announced on Tuesday. The decade-long New START agreement which will end in February, is currently the last remaining nuclear arms control deal between the U.S. and Russia. New START limits the number […]