Category: Global News

  Russia will ignore United States sanctions against Iran and continue to trade with the Middle Eastern country without creating any special mechanisms, a high ranking Russian official told Sputnik. Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov disclosed this on Tuesday. He said, “Our colleagues here (in Brussels) sometimes ask why Russia and […]

European Union leaders on Sunday approved a historic Brexit deal, holding out hopes of close future ties even as one declared Britain’s withdrawal after four decades a “tragedy”. The 27 leaders of the bloc met without Prime Minister Theresa May to endorse the agreement, which sets the stage for Britain exit from the bloc on […]

Hospitals in the United States of America are beginning to use drones to fly human parts from one hospital to another. A team of scientists from the University of Maryland Baltimore used a kidney as a test subject. They used the drone to shuffle a kidney back and forth between medical facilities. Using a remotely […]

Seven local employees of a French drilling firm and a government official were killed Thursday when suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed the compound where they were sleeping in southeastern Niger. The attack shattered months of relative calm in the Diffa region near the Lake Chad basin, a strategic area where the borders of four countries […]

British leader Theresa May suffered a huge blow on Thursday when a series of ministers including her Brexit secretary quit as she tried to sell her proposed EU withdrawal agreement to a divided parliament. Dominic Raab resigned from his role at the Brexit ministry while a second cabinet minister and two junior government ministers also […]

A federal judge will hold a hearing Wednesday on CNN’s lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration alleging the White House violated correspondent Jim Acosta’s constitutional rights by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the US president. The White House dismissed CNN’s complaint as “grandstanding” and vowed to “vigorously defend” against the lawsuit. The […]

knife-wielding man killed one person and injured two others in a rush hour stabbing rampage in downtown Melbourne Friday, before being shot dead by police. Australian authorities said they were treating the attack as an act of terror and revealed that the suspect was originally from Somalia and was known to intelligence agencies. Counter-terrorism police […]

Cameroon’s 85-year-old President Paul Biya vowed Tuesday to pursue policies of decentralisation to address “frustrations and aspirations” in English-speaking regions hit by separatist unrest as he was sworn in for a seventh term in office. But he firmly ruled out secession for the troubled regions and accused armed radicals of instigating “terror and desolation.” On […]

Seventy-nine school students were kidnapped on Monday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said. The students were abducted along with their principal, a teacher and a driver, the official said, as a source at the school confirmed the kidnapping of the pupils. They […]

Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population, have repeatedly come under attack by Islamic extremists. On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic pilgrims near the city of Minya in central Egypt, killing seven. Here is a timeline of similar major incidents. 2017 December 2017: An IS gunman kills […]