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World
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International
12/6/2022 9:34:00 AM
A roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees during rush hour on Tuesday morning in northern Afghanistan, killing six people, a Taliban official said.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
12/5/2022 6:28:42 PM
The UK government Monday stressed the British Museum is legally forbidden from breaking up its vast collection, after a report said it could possibly hand the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
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World
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Region
12/5/2022 3:07:10 PM
Sudan's ruling generals and the main pro-democracy group on Monday signed a framework deal until elections to establish a new, civilian-led transitional government.
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Egypt
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Politics
12/4/2022 9:15:39 PM
The constitutional and legislative committee of the House of Representatives approved on Sunday in principle a bill submitted by the government to amend some provision of the law on criminal procedures of 1950.
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World
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Region
12/4/2022 8:01:39 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming government by actions and not personalities.
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World
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Region
12/4/2022 5:08:23 PM
The new Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani received a green light on Saturday to finish forming his new government after the country’s parliament approved the nomination of two final ministers.
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World
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International
12/3/2022 10:17:58 PM
The government of El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital Saturday to search for gang members.
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World
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Africa
12/3/2022 3:09:54 PM
Three days of national mourning began in the DR Congo on Saturday after the alleged massacre of civilians in the country's east, with the government now giving a death toll of "more than 100".
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/3/2022 1:59:15 PM
US President Joe Biden is set to host the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit on 13-15 December in Washington DC along with approximately 50 heads of state and senior government officials from African countries, according to a statement by the African Union (AU) Mission to the US on Friday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/3/2022 1:48:08 PM
Even as Ukraine celebrates recent battlefield victories, its government faces a looming challenge on the financial front: how to pay the enormous cost of the war effort without triggering out-of-control price spikes for ordinary people or piling up debt that could hamper postwar reconstruction.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/3/2022 11:47:00 AM
Western governments are aiming to cap the price of Russia's oil exports in an attempt to limit the fossil fuel earnings that support Moscow's budget, its military and the invasion of Ukraine.
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World
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International
12/3/2022 11:16:24 AM
Myanmar's military-installed government has sentenced more critics to death, bringing the total to 139, and is using capital punishment as a tool to crush opposition, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said Friday.
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World
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International
12/3/2022 10:10:02 AM
Thousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea's capital on Saturday denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.
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World
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International
12/2/2022 6:12:24 PM
A top official at the World Health Organization said the U.N. agency was ``pleased'' to see China loosening some of its coronavirus restrictions, saying ``it's really important that governments listen to their people when the people are in pain.''
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World
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Region
12/1/2022 9:37:12 PM
Israel's designated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a coalition deal that will give a hardline, pro-settler party control over a number of key government ministries and a senior role in overseeing the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Egypt
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Society
12/1/2022 7:49:52 PM
The Top 50 Women Forum will hold a training program on Tuesday for Egyptian women in government institutions and companies on sustainable development and climate change.
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World
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Africa
12/1/2022 6:37:31 PM
A joint committee of the Ethiopian government and Tigray forces has convened inside the Tigray region to outline disarmament plans as part of a peace deal signed last month in the two-year conflict, Ethiopia's government said Thursday.
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World
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Region
12/1/2022 6:12:40 PM
Iran's president paid a visit Thursday to Kurdistan province, the cradle of protests over Mahsa Amini's death, and urged people to thwart the "enemy" which his government accuses of stoking the unrest.
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Business
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Economy
12/1/2022 4:51:07 PM
A closely-watched measure of US inflation edged down in October, government data showed Thursday, with costs of goods easing while spending remained resilient.
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World
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Region
11/30/2022 9:13:10 PM
Russia deployed troop reinforcements Wednesday to an area of northern Syria controlled by Kurdish fighters and government troops, residents and a war monitor said, amid fears of a Turkish ground incursion.
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