Trump signs $2.3 trillion Covid-19 package, adds conditions
US President Donald Trump, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans,...
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Saudi company acquires US medical campus
Saudi-based Arbah Capital has announced its investors’ acquisition of the Commonwealth Campus, a $59m high income-producing diversified medical campus in...
Lebanon secures Covid-19 vaccines for 20% citizens
Lebanon has secured about 2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, which will cover 20% of the country's nationals, the...
Kenya forces kill several Al-Shabaab in Lamu
Ibrahim Jaafar Olum Kenya Forces on Sunday raided a stronghold of Al Shabaab militants and destroyed their camp, killing several...
Cleric accuses media, US government of double standard, condemns underreported Christian terrorist attack on Xmas Day
Akeem Alao A Pakistani-American theologian and preacher, Yasir Qadhi, has accused the mainstream media and the US government of double...
Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks Borno communities, kills 3 people, destroys schools
At least three people have been confirmed killed in one of the Borno communities in Hawul Local Government Area attacked...
Turkey warns Haftar against attacking forces in Libya
Turkey’s defence minister has threatened that any attack by eastern Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar on its personnel in...
Saudi Arabia discovers 4 Oil, gas fields
Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz has announced that Saudi Aramco has discovered four new oil...
Oman to reopen borders on December 29
Oman has disclosed plan to reopen its land, air and sea borders on Tuesday December 29, a government Twitter account...
Nigeria: GYSF unveils project, feeds 100 underprivileged people in Lagos
Global Youth Sustainability Foundation, a non-governmental organisation which promotes welfarism among the underprivileged Nigerians, has fed 100 underprivileged people in...
Iran extends traffic curfew to 330 cities to sustain virus decline
Iran has extended a night-time traffic curfew to 330 lower-risk cities in an effort to sustain a recent fall in...
3 UN peacekeepers killed in CAR ahead of Sunday’s elections
Unidentified armed combatants have killed three peacekeepers from Burundi in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations said on...
India arrests 75 in Kashmir after local elections
The Indian government has arrested at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance...
Democrats support Biden’s ‘unconditional’ return to Iran nuclear deal
A letter backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to return to the Iran nuclear deal without any new conditions has garnered...
2 climbers killed, 2 injured in Iran during heavy snowfall
Two climbers were killed and two others injured on Friday on a mountain outside Iran’s capital Tehran during heavy snowfall...
Egypt Mufti condemns Israeli attacks on Muslim graves in Jerusalem
Egypt’s Mufti Shawki Allam has urged the international community and international organizations to assume their full responsibilities in stopping Israeli...
Algerian political prisoner offers govt help to improve conditions for inmates
A major Algerian political prisoner has offered the government financial assistance to improve the conditions for inmates in the prison...
Egypt’s head of electoral commission dies of Covid-19
The Head of Egypt’s electoral commission, Lashin Ibrahim, has died. It was reported on Friday that Ibrahim died of complications...
Columbus suspends police officer for shooting unarmed Black man
A Columbus, Ohio police officer who fatally shot a Black man on Tuesday has been suspended from duty. This was...
UK finds new strain of Covid-19 from South Africa, widens lockdowns
A new, potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been found in the United Kingdom in cases linked...
Washington accuses Tehran of ‘disregarding’ Security Council
Washington has accused Tehran of “reckless disregard” for its UN obligations, and regretted that some Security Council members ignore or...
Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq
US President Donald Trump has warned that he would hold "Iran responsible" in the event of a fatal attack on...
Pandemic sends US single mothers into poverty
When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants in California, Aleida Ramirez lost her job as a waitress, plunging her — along...
Biden to appoint Connecticut schools Chief Miguel Cardona Education Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden has disclosed plan to appoint Miguel Cardona, the head of Connecticut's public schools, as his secretary of...
Lebanese Parliament agrees to lift banking secrecy for one year
Lebanon's parliament has passed a law to lift banking secrecy for one year in a move that could clear the...
5 people killed in Kabul car bomb blast
At least five people, including four doctors, were killed after a magnetic bomb attached to their car exploded in the...
Canada pledges $70m to assist crisis-hit Palestine refugee agency
Canada has pledged 90 million Canadian dollars ($70m) in aid to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which has been...
Malaysia signs Covid-19 vaccine agreement with AstraZeneca
Malaysia has signed an agreement to buy 6.4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and is in negotiations with China...
Iraq begins fuel exports to Lebanon
Iraq’s oil minister said on Monday that an agreement has been reached with Lebanon to start fuel export supplies to...
Oman shuts borders to prevent outbreak of new strain of Covid-19
Oman has disclosed plan to shut its land, air and sea borders on Tuesday at 1 a.m. for one week,...
Tunisian Minister of Environment arrested over Italian waste scandal
Tunisian Environment Minister Mustapha Aroui has been sacked and arrested over the shipment of hundreds of containers of household waste...
Turkish court sentences Kurdish former MP to 22 years in jail
A Turkish court has sentenced a Kurdish former lawmaker, who shot to fame for a months-long hunger strike two years...
Trump’s campaign asks top court to overturn presidential election results
President Donald Trump’s campaign had said that it would again ask the US Supreme Court to overturn results from the...
US declares readiness to react if Tehran launches attack to avenge Soleimani killing
The United States has declared its readiness to react if Tehran launches an attack to mark the first anniversary of...
Egypt records surge in Covid-19 deaths, infections
Egypt has recorded an increase in the numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths, while health authorities keep urging residents to...
Saudi Arabia temporarily suspends international flights
Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended all international passenger flights for citizens and residents over fears about the fast-spreading new variant...
Temporary suspension of visas for Pakistanis is to curb Covid-19 — UAE
Akeem Alao Pakistan says it has been assured by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the abrupt visa ban imposed...
Rights organization urges Algerian government to halt mass deportation of migrants
The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) has called on the government to halt the mass deportation...
Hallsley honors Anthony Gaskins, appreciates services during Covid-19
Hallsley residents have expressed their love and appreciation to Anthony Gaskins, a truck driver, who is considered a hero for...
Kenyan planned 9/11-style attack after training as pilot — US
Akeem Alao The Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged a Kenyan man with plotting a Sept. 11-style attack on a...
Bernie Sanders faults Sen. Ron’s objection to bill that provides financial support for couples, families, kids
Akeem Alao United States senator, Bernie Sanders, has faulted a colleague in the senate, Sen. Ron Johnson, for objecting his...
Macron tests positive for Covid-19, Castex to self isolate
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19. While disclosing this on Thursday December 17, 2020, the presidency stated...
Macron tests positive for Covid-19, Castex to self isolate
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19. While disclosing this on Thursday December 17, 2020, the presidency stated...
Nigeria: Senators lament insecurity, threaten to remove President
Nigerian senators have lamented failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to address the country’s insecurity. While registering their indignation on Tuesday...
Beverly Lindsay-Johnson emerges AAMA Executive Director
AAMA has appointed Beverly Lindsay-Johnson as it's DC-based Executive Director. While congratulating Lindsay-Johnson on his Facebook page on Tuesday December...
OIC condemns abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria, calls for unconditional release
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC has condemned the mass abduction of schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria. While speaking reacting to...
Marzouq Al Ghanim re-elected as speaker of Kuwait’s parliament
Marzouq Al Ghanim has been re-elected as the speaker of Kuwait’s National Assembly (parliament), during the opening session of the...
Putin congratulates Biden on US election victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory message to Joe Biden after the U.S. Electoral College confirmed the latter...
Trump announces William Barr’s resignation as Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory
US President Donald Trump has announced that Attorney General William Barr, the head of the Department of Justice, will leave...
US Election: Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory
The US Electoral College has affirmed the victory of the President-elect, Joe Biden. The announcement on Monday came as Biden...
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez mourns Brandon Bernard, calls for abolition of death sentence
Akeem AlaoThe United States congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has expressed her condolences over the execution of Brandon Bernard.While issuing her condolences...
18 Nigerian Army generals test positive for covid-19
Not less than 18 Nigerian Army generals have tested positive for coronavirus, military sources said on Sunday December 13, 2020....
Nigeria mourns former Ambassador to US
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued its condolences over the demise of the former Nigerian Ambassador to the United...
OIC member states reiterate resolve to collaborate in production, distribution of vaccines
The member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have reiterated their resolve to collaborate in the production and...
Nigerian government orders reopening of isolation centres, prepares for second wave of Covid-19
Nigerian government has ordered the reopening of all isolation and treatment centres in the country. While disclosing this on Thursday...
Israel, Morocco agree to normalize ties
Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations as President Donald Trump, in his final weeks in office, announced the...
Marcus Garvey Jr., son of Jamaican national hero, dies in Wellington at 90
Marcus Garvey Jr., the eldest son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the late leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, has died in...
Biden defends choice of retired army general for top defence post
United States President-elect Joe Biden has named retired US Army General Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defence amid...
Russian army establishes military base in Syria’s Ain Issa
Russia police forces have been deployed in new military positions in Ain Issa in Raqqa’s northern countryside, along the areas...
Iraqi PM calls for national dialogue to prepare for ‘transparent elections’
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called on Wednesday for “comprehensive national dialogue” ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. During a...
