Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic resigned on Tuesday, opening the way to form a new government after a month-long political crisis.President Zuzana Caputova tasked Finance Minister Eduard Heger, a
An explosion occurred outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, police said.News footage shows police setting up a cordon around the church and damaged cars parked nearb
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday reversed a planned strict Easter shutdown, AFP reported, citing the chief of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, amid massive criticism of the gov
A court hearing for Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has been postponed until April 1, Reuters reported, citing an aide to her lawyer on Wednesday, marking the second successive postponement in her case.Su
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the U.S. Justice Department's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that
Saudi Arabia presented on Monday a new peace initiative to end the war in Yemen, including a nationwide ceasefire under U.N. supervision, the kingdom's foreign minister said. Source(s): Reuters
The benefits of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine far outweigh any risks, and countries across Europe should continue to use it to help save lives in the pandemic, the World Health Organization's Europe
The Open Society Foundations, a philanthropic organization founded by billionaire George Soros, called on Tuesday for the immediate release of a staff member held in Myanmar and said allegations of f
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) has obtained the greenlight for emergency use in China, the institute said on Monday. Source(s):
The EU launched two legal proceedings against Britain on Monday, alleging that London had broken a protocol of its Brexit divorce agreement covering Ireland."The EU and the UK agreed the protocol tog
Britain on Monday announced sanctions on six allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including his foreign minister and close advisers."The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decad
Ireland's vaccine taskforce on Sunday recommended temporarily suspending the rollout of the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab following reports of blood clots in adults who have received the shot."The Nati
Jordan's health minister resigned on Saturday after six people died following an oxygen outage in a hospital treating coronavirus patients and police were deployed to hold back angry relatives, state
An emblem of Mercedes-Benz is seen on a car's hood at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China show, in Beijing, China, September 27, 2020. /CFP German luxury automaker D
The city of Minneapolis will pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in May while handcuffed after being arrested and restrained by city police officers
Armenia's defense ministry on Friday said military exercises involving 7,500 troops would be held in the country March 16-20, the RIA news agency reported.The ministry said the exercise aims to test
A street in Accra, Ghana's capital city. /VCG Ghana targets to grow its economy at five percent by the end of 2021, said Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the acting finance minister here on Friday.Pres