World & Politics

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to call on G7 leaders - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - to vaccinate the entire world against the coronavirus…

Qantas airlines have offered vaccinated passengers unlimited flights for a year for the whole family and other bonuses. Australian businesses are concerned that the sluggish pace of vaccination could undermine…

The intelligence agencies of the United States currently have two theories about the origins of the novel coronavirus according to the admission of the US intelligence community on Thursday. There

The intelligence community of the United States has been asked by President Joe Biden to files a report within 90 days on the likely origins of the Covid-19. In a

In the two months of February and March, Hong Kong residents applied for 34,300 British visas under the new rules, which came into effect at the end of January. These…

The Suez Canal has cleared 34 vessels of the container ship owner Ever Given after the six-day blockage incident in late March, Suez Canal Authority spokesman George Safwat told.

The cost of vaccination of at least 40 per cent of the population in all countries by the end of 2021 and at least 60 per cent by the first

At the end of the last week, the deadline Iran had given to the international community to reach a compromise on the nuclear deal expired. For now, however, Tehran is…

Social media companies in India have been ordered by the government to remove any content that gas reference to the words “Indian variant” of Covid-19 arguing that the variant has

Members of the European Parliament approved by a majority vote a resolution that effectively freezes preparation and ratification of a new EU investment agreement with China because of Beijing's earlier…

The UK government will pay up to $140,000 to farmers in England for agreeing to retire. London sees some elderly farmers as opponents of organic farming methods and is trying…

Iran is preparing for the possible lifting of US sanctions and a return to the nuclear deal: the country is looking to boost oil exports on that backdrop, Bloomberg says.

Companies manufacturing components for solar panels are accused of exploiting the Chinese. In particular, according to CNN, the issue is the use of human labour by the population of the…

The proposal of the United States president Joe Biden to wave off patent rights of companies over Covid-19 vaccines was backed by the European Union. However, that idea was opposed

The EU has completed the ratification procedure for the trade and cooperation agreement with the UK and it will finally enter into force on 1 May, the EU Council said…

A report published by the foreign service of the European Union which was published on Wednesday has claimed that campaigns are being run by actors in China and Russia aimed

The Zimbabwean authorities have decided to sell licenses to kill elephants as part of their fight against the economic crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic, CNN reports.

2020 was the hottest year on record for Europe. At the same time, the year also saw extreme wildfires in the Arctic which was partly attributed to low snow cover.

South Korea will stop funding coal-fired power plants abroad, President Moon Jae-in said Thursday at a virtual climate summit.

Sanctions have been announced against Russia by the United States in reaction to what the US administration claimed were because of cyber-attacks and other hostile actions. Making the announcement the

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country's chief public health watchdog, told CNN about 5,800 US citizens who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 but still got…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a 2022 extension of the deferral of debt payments to poor countries.

G20 finance ministers have tentatively backed the US Treasury's idea of a uniform minimum tax rate for businesses worldwide. They plan to reach consensus on the new rules by mid-year.

More than 4 million new cases of coronavirus have been detected worldwide over the past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. This is 5% more than in the…

More than 20 politicians - among them French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - have called for a new international treaty aimed at combating pandemics and improving…

The Suez Canal Authority is preparing for a scenario to unload the stranded container ship Ever Given, the canal's head of administration Osama Rabie told Al-Arabiya TV.

The world of hacking is being joined by a new generation of youthful hackers – many of whom are reportedly angry about the manner in which the cyber security world

Europe is facing a new type of world war over the actions of Russia and China in supplying vaccines against COVID-19, French President Emmanuel Macron said. In his view, European…

Sanctions against four Chinese officials have been imposed by the European Union over charges of the officials being involved in human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group

Following confidence building statements and measures announced by medicine regulators of the European Union and the United Kingdom about the benefits outweighing the risks of the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca,

According to an advocacy group of Myanmar, at least 22 pro-democracy protesters in the Hlaingthaya suburb of Yangon were killed by the ruling army of the country on Sunday while

Brazil has been severely hit by a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as its hospitals and ICUs reaching full capacity and are on the verge of a collapse even

The emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has been temporarily suspended by Denmark, the country said on Thursday. This temporary suspension

Tehran rejected the EU’s proposal to hold an informal meeting with the United States on a return to compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal.

Bloomberg called the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB) and current Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who gained a reputation as the saviour of the European economy for…

Total global defence and arms spending in 2020 is more than $1.83 trillion, an increase of 3.9 per cent on the previous year.

Israeli authorities have closed all Mediterranean beaches along 170 kilometres. The reason, says the weekly magazine Spiegel, was that the coastal waters were found to be polluted with oil products.

The signs of the covid-19 pandemic were much wider in Wuhan in China in December of 2019 than was thought previously, found the investigating team from the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the COVID-19 vaccine from the British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use. WHO data showed that the vaccine meets the necessary…

Italy's new government led by Mario Draghi has been sworn in. The ceremony, featuring the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the presidential…

The television and radio regulator of China has banned the broadcasting of the British television news network BBC World News in the country this week. The television channel has been

Mutations of the coronavirus will not trigger a new pandemic, but vigilance must be maintained. This opinion was expressed by Hans Kluge, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional…

The novel coronavirus “most likely” first originated in animal prior to getting spread among humans, claimed an international team of scientists led by the World Health Organization. The team of

Amid the pandemic, rents in UK city centres have fallen while rents in some smaller towns and suburbs have risen.

The world has entered its worst economic crisis in a century as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This was the view expressed by UN Secretary General António Guterres in…

After New Zealand confirmed that its first case of Covid-19 infection in months was because of the South African variant of the virus, a travel bubble with the country was

New Yorkers renting flats in the city have owed more than $1 billion in rent since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal,…