The United Kingdom on Thursday said it will reimpose quarantine for travellers from France and the Netherlands. France quickly announced that it would take a “reciprocal measure”. The UK government...

Iran and Turkey lashed out at their regional rival, the United Arab Emirates on Friday over its decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in a US-brokered deal.It accused the UAE of betraying...

Poland is experiencing its first recession since the end of the communist era more than three decades ago. The economy shrank by 8.9 percent in the second quarter because of the effects of the coronavirus...

The UK economy is officially in recession for the first time since the financial crisis ten years ago. The  economy plunged by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the first quarter as a result...

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that Senator Kamala Harris will be his vice presidential candidate and running mate in the US November election. Joe Biden...

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has announced the resignation of his government this Monday following the August 4 explosion in Beirut’s port which stirred public outrage and calls for a complete overhaul...

At least 78 people have died and more than 4,000 others injured as two huge explosions rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Tuesday. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun later said in a statement that...

United States President, Donald Trump has given popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok six weeks to sell its US operations to an American company. He said on Monday that Tik Tok would be “out of business”...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Northern Ireland politician, John Hume has died aged 83. He was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in 1970 and went on to lead the...

American President, Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that the upcoming US presidential election scheduled for  November this year be postponed. He claimed the election would be “the most inaccurate”...

The death toll in the United States due to the coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country’s coronavirus death toll was 150,676...

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, has tested positive for COVID-19. The White House confirmed that Robert O’Brien has “mild symptoms” of the virus –...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Saturday he has tested negative for the new coronavirus more than two weeks after being diagnosed as positive on July 7, attributing his recovery to an unproven...

Morocco’s interior and health ministries on Sunday said it will stop people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from midnight to contain a spike in COVID-19 cases. 633 new COVID-19 cases...

Beijing has announced that the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu was closed as of 10am on Monday, after it ordered the facility be shut. China’s latest move is in retaliation for...

China has ordered the United States to close its consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu. The move comes as a retaliation against Washington’s decision earlier this week to shut down the Chinese...

Tanzania’s former president, Benjamin William Mkapa, aged 81, has died. Incumbent president, John Pombe Magufuli announced the news of his death via a national broadcast. “I’m saddened by the death...

An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.4 struck the Alaskan Peninsula on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The US Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at...

President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that the coronavirus will get worse in the United States before getting better. In a press conference that lasted about 30 minutes, Trump said he believed the...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday imposed a curfew and reinstated strict measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus following a spike in that country’s cases in recent...