Israeli settlers threw petrol bombs at two Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus, on Thursday evening, Wafa has reported ... The soldiers then entered the village and opened fire on the villagers ... .......
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said he does not plan to commit suicide and thanked his supporters in his first statement since being jailed in one of Moscow’s most notorious prisons upon his return to Russia.....
BERLIN (Reuters) – ChancellorAngela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to stop complaining about the slow roll-out of a vaccine against COVID-19 and defended a decision to extend a lockdown as necessary to stem a more aggressive variant of the coronavirus ...PowerWomen with Victoria Schneps ... Subscribe. ... How can we even complain?” ... 14 ... ....
Igor Korotchenko, military expert, editor-in-chief of National DefenseMagazine, and Inna Novikova, Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief, reflected on the prospects and risks in the new year 2021. The biggest problem of 2020 - the coronavirus pandemic - is not going away in 2021, bringing the same and new problems along ... "I heard about it too ... ....
Four people-smugglers have been jailed for a total of 78 years over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants, whose bodies were found in a lorry container in Essex in October 2019 ... They were later found dead by MauriceRobinson, 26, a lorry driver who had gone to collect the trailer from Purfleet Docks, Essex ... SIGN UP ... SIGN UP ... ....
New Delhi, India – Khushboo Tiwari has not attended any classes since her school on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi, was shut in March last year due to the coronavirus pandemic ... On Mondays, Tiwari would walk to her school to get the week’s homework on sheets of paper, but the grade VI student was not happy and missed regular classes ... ....
It was supposed to be a banner year for Turkmenistan’s natural gas industry. There was a time when it was predicted that the Central Asia-China pipeline would be transporting 65 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas annually by 2020. The project to build a trans-Afghan pipeline to India, TAPI, was also supposed to have come into dock by now ...Plan B ... ....
A clear majority of Swiss voters favour introducing a nationwide prohibition against the wearing of full facial coverings such as burqas and niqabs in public spaces, a poll showed on Friday ... The initiative proposes some exceptions to the ban, including in “places of worship” and for “health reasons” ... Bad idea ... ....
A gifted Senegalese student and novelist who was reported missing in France has said she was on "a little break to regain her senses" in a letter shared with a government minister. Diary Sow, 20, did not return to school in Paris after the Christmas holidays, causing concern in Senegal and France ... "I am not hiding ... Related Topics. ....
Canberra, Jan 22 (IANS) Australian Prime MinisterScott Morrison on Friday declared that the country has successfully has beaten a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic ...Following the meeting he told reporters that "we have beaten the third wave" that began with an infection clusters in Sydney ... "But that is not an indication that (it) will occur."....
Paris, Jan 22 . French PresidentEmmanuel Macron has announced a five-year investment plan worth 1.8 billion euros ($2.2 billion) in quantum technologies, which he said would place his country among “the world’s top three” in this field ...Disclaimer ... ....
Peace and Security. The first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades, came into force just after midnight on Friday, hailed by the UN Secretary-General as “an important step towards a world free of nuclear weapons” ... ‘Tragic testimonies’ of survivors ... Entry into force is a tribute to their enduring advocacy”, he said. Mr ... ....