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Air France and Lufthansa are the latest airlines to suspend flights into Ukraine as fears of a Russian invasion grow. The French carrier said that it would cancel flights to and from the capital Kyiv on Tuesday as a “precautionary ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for coronavirus, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday. The 95-year-old sovereign — who is celebrating her 70th year on the throne — is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor ...

The United States has offered a sovereign loan guarantee to Ukraine of up to $1 billion to support the country’s economy as the Eastern European country prepares for a possible Russian invasion any day, the Department of State announced on ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak with his US and French counterparts on Saturday after the United States warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine in days. The United States had dramatically raised the alarm over Ukraine on Friday, ...

At least two cases of the potentially deadly Lassa Fever have been detected in the UK – the first in over a decade. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed that two people have been diagnosed with Lassa Fever in England, ...

Weeks after the gruesome murder of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez, another Mexican journalist, Roberto Toledo, has been killed by assailants, the Associate Press reports. Mr Toledo, who works for Monitor Michoacan, an online news outlet, was reportedly shot dead by three ...

Entire families in Afghanistan have been forced to sell their kidneys so they can buy food, as the country plunges deeper into a humanitarian crisis. One family – including three brothers and two sisters – all underwent surgery and sold ...

President Joe Biden will honour his commitment to make an African-American woman his first nomination to the Supreme Court, the White House says. She would replace the liberal justice, Stephen Breyer, who is expected to retire at the end of ...

  Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and schools in England and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events as infections level off in large parts of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ...

US President Joe Biden has nominated the first Muslim-American woman to be a judge on a federal court in the United States, the White House said on Wednesday, as it announced a list of diverse judicial nominees. If confirmed by ...

  Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden, saying the country is so badly run, he never knew things would become so bad. The former US Presideny reflected on the first year of the Biden presidency, and said the country ...

Argentina is currently the hottest place on planet earth. The country is facing a historic heat wave with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F), making the country for a while the hottest place on Earth. The heat wave has ...

China has locked down a city of five million people a day after detecting Omicron in the central Henan province, its second shut down in as many months, underscoring the nation’s commitment to eliminating Covid as two highly transmissible variants ...

Ten adults and nine children are dead after a five-alarm fire ripped through a building in New York City on Sunday. The fire, stemming from a malfunctioning portable space heater, started around 11 a.m. ET at a 19-story residential building ...

The Taliban have banned women from travelling distances longer than 45 miles unless accompanied by a male family member. The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice today declared that women seeking to travel anything other than ...

  Russian President, Vladimir Putin has warned he is willing to take ‘military measures’ in response to Western action in Ukraine. Giving the warning during a meeting at the defense ministry on Tuesday, December 20, Putin said Russia will ‘react ...

The Japanese Ministry of Justice said three prisoners on death row were executed on Tuesday, the first in Japan since December 2019. The execution was the first under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration. The three were identified as Yasutaka Fujishiro, ...

The Netherlands will be on lockdown for both Christmas and New Year. The country will go into a strict lockdown from today to contain the highly – contagious Omicron COVID-19 variant, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Saturday. All non-essential ...

North Koreans have been banned from laughing or drinking for 11 days to mark the tenth anniversary of former leader Kim Jong Il’s death. Government authorities have ordered the public to not show any signs of happiness while North Korea ...

Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu has been crowned Miss Universe 2021. The reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, crowned her successor at the 70th annual Miss Universe event in Eilat, Israel Sunday night. The international competition, hosted by Steve Harvey, ...

A mother told how she was forced to sell one of her newborn twins in order to get money to feed the other. The Afghan mum ave the baby to a childless couple in return for $104 which she hoped ...

The man detained in Paris over suspected links to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is thought to be a namesake of the wanted suspect, a Saudi diplomatic source has told Sky News. France has 48 hours to verify the ...

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison, the first in a series of verdicts that could jail her for life. She was found guilty on charges of inciting dissent and breaking Covid ...

Meghan Markle has won a legal battle with the publisher of The Mail On Sunday over a letter to her estranged father. The Duchess of Sussex, 40, sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over five articles that reproduced parts of a ...

Czech President Milos Zeman has appointed the leader of a centre-right alliance Petr Fiala as prime minister on Sunday in a ceremony he performed from a plexiglass cubicle after testing positive for COVID-19. Fiala leads a bloc of five centre ...