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...

The Nobel Foundation, managers of  the Nobel Prizes, on Tuesday cancelled its traditional December banquet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Nobel week will not be as it usually is due to the current...

The government of the United Kingdom has entered partnerships with Pfizer and Valneva to secure doses of several promising COVID-19 vaccines and  COVID-19 neutralising antibody treatments from AstraZeneca. The...

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by the Americans, the judiciary said. The judiciary...

John Lewis, a respected pioneer of the civil rights movement and eminent member of the United States House of Representatives, died on Friday. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who had announced...

China has said it would retaliate after US President Donald Trump ordered an end to preferential trade treatment for Hong Kong. In a statement on Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry said it “firmly...

The joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Tuesday condemned violent incidents in North Darfur State which left nine dead and 20 wounded. “UNAMID is deeply concerned about...

American biotech company, Moderna, is aiming to begin its final phase of testing for its coronavirus vaccine on July 27. Moderna is the first company in the United States to announce an estimated start...

Andrzej Duda, Poland’s incumbent president, has narrowly won the presidential election as the results from over 99 percent of polling stations released so far show. The remaining uncounted votes...

Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president, Nelson Mandela,is dead. The spokesman of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) made the disclosure on Monday. She was Nelson Mandela’s...

Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, on Tuesday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The President  also confirmed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine as well as azithromycin as treatment. Bolsonaro...

More than 500,000 people worldwide have now lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to John Hopkins University in the US. John Hopkins also reports that more than 10 million...

An Algerian criminal court has sentenced a former prime minister and erstwhile energy minister to prison on corruption charges. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia was sentenced to 12 years while erstwhile...

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Ado has apologised to Nigeria over the demolition of a building on the premises of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant...