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Foreign powers press Ethiopia for peace talks over Tigray
Some African and European nations are pressing Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed behind the scenes to allow mediation of a war in a northern region that has spilled into neighbouring Eritrea and rocked the wider Horn of Africa, diplomats have said.
16 November 2020, 15:21 PM
Crisis-hit Peru seeks third president in a week to exit ‘nightmare’
Peru is still searching for a new head of state after lawmakers failed overnight to name what would be the third president in a week.
16 November 2020, 14:07 PM
Armenian leader calls for halt to violence over peace deal
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who fuelled outrage over a controversial peace deal with Azerbaijan, has called for a halt to violence after reports of an attempt on his life.
16 November 2020, 13:52 PM
France’s Macron meets US Secretary Pompeo after congratulating Biden
French President Emmanuel Macron faced the potentially uncomfortable position Monday of meeting US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, having already congratulated President-elect Joe Biden for his election victory.
16 November 2020, 11:58 AM
Pandemic pushes steep drop in foreign college students
Just two semesters short of earning a cybersecurity master’s degree in the US, Sai Naini is stuck in India, unsure what his future holds.
16 November 2020, 09:17 AM
British PM Johnson self-isolating after COVID-19 contact
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, a fresh setback after infighting among his top advisers plunged Downing Street into chaos last week.
16 November 2020, 04:43 AM
‘Four more years’
Thousands of die-hard Donald Trump supporters rallied for a last stand Saturday in Washington, chanting “four more years” and blaming fraud for an election defeat that will force the president to vacate the White House after just one term.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Vamco hits Vietnam Philippines death toll rises to 67
Storm Vamco barrelled into Vietnam yesterday, damaging buildings and injuring at least five people, as the death toll in the Philippines climbed to 67.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
‘I’m going out’
Belarusian police detained hundreds of people who took to the streets in mass demonstrations yesterday chanting “I’m going out”, the last known written words of an anti-governmemt protester who died last week.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Israel eyes more as Trump era nears end
Israel has pushed on with plans to build a new Jewish settler neighbourhood in east Jerusalem, a watchdog group said yesterday, warning such efforts were being stepped up before US President Donald Trump leaves office.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden makes diplomacy dull again
After Donald Trump in his first week as president spoke to Australia’s prime minister, leaks of the call left many dumbfounded, with the new US leader haranguing and hanging up on the close ally.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Azerbaijan extends deadline to Nov 25
Azerbaijan yesterday said it had agreed to extend a deadline for Armenia to withdraw from a disputed district as part of a peace accord that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Israel strikes Hamas positions after rockets fired from Gaza
Israel’s military said it struck Hamas positions yesterday morning following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip overnight.
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Huge India oil well fire extinguished after 5 months
A massive oil well fire that has raged for more than five months in northeast India has finally been extinguished, officials said yesterday. Oil India
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Nearly 25,000 Ethiopians flee to Sudan: state media
Around 25,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan, state news agency SUNA reported, as the UN
15 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Gunmen in western Ethiopia kill at least 34 people in bus attack, rights body says
Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national human rights body said on Sunday, as fears grow of a security vacuum in the country amid a military campaign in the north.
15 November 2020, 12:48 PM
In a historic move, Biden to pick Michele Flournoy for Pentagon head
US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.
15 November 2020, 08:00 AM
Fire kills 10 at Romanian Covid-19 hospital
A fire at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said. Prosecutors quickly opened a criminal investigation.
15 November 2020, 05:27 AM
Rockets fired at Eritrea amid Ethiopian conflict: Diplomats
Rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital on Saturday, diplomats said, as the deadly fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region appeared to spill across an international border and bring some of observers’ worst fears to life.
15 November 2020, 04:31 AM
New covid outbreak hits US Secret Service: media
The US Secret Service, which guards President Donald Trump, President-elect Joe Biden, and the White House, has been struck by an outbreak of
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM