Politics
Egypt, Jordan and Iraq leaders meet at Baghdad summit
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Jordan’s King Abdullah met in Baghdad on Sunday during the first ...Thousands displaced by fighting around northern Afghan city
About 5,000 Afghan families have fled their homes in Kunduz after days of fighting between the Taliban and government forces, officials said ...Respect LGBT rights or leave EU, Hungary’s Orban told
Respect LGBT rights or leave the European Union, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told his Hungarian counterpart as the bloc’s leaders confronted ...Ethiopian military says only combatants hit in Tigray air strike
Only combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the country’s military spokesman said on ...Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino dies at age of 61
Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino, the son of two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons, died in a Manila hospital on ...China condemns latest U.S. warship transit of Taiwan Strait
China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the region’s greatest security “risk creator” after a U.S. warship again sailed through the ...U.S. seizes Iranian news sites under unclear circumstances
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent ...Heavy fighting reported in Ethiopian Tigray region
Officials in Ethiopia counted ballots on Tuesday after a parliamentary election billed as the first free vote in the country’s history but ...AstraZeneca vaccine effective against COVID-19 variants identified in India
AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine is effective against Delta and Kappa variants, which were first identified in India, the company said on Tuesday, ...Philippines’ Duterte warns he’ll jail people who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine
President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia’s ...














