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Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims. The hajj and umrah ministry said […]

The UK medical regulator said Saturday that out of 30 people who suffered rare blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, seven have died. The British acknowledgement of deaths comes as several European countries have […]

President Joe Biden overturned Trump’s so-called Muslim ban on Jan. 20, his first day in office, calling it “a stain on our national conscience” in his proclamation. Most US visa applicants, who were denied because […]

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the director of Russia’s FSB security agency after finding it carried out the near-fatal poisoning of President Vladimir Putin’s leading critic Alexei Navalny. The Treasury Department said […]

South Africa is targeting an ambitious plan to vaccinate one million people against Covid-19 by the end of March after a late start to its inoculation campaign, the country’s health minister said Thursday. So far […]

The United States Senate voted on Saturday to acquit Donald J. Trump in his second impeachment trial, as Republicans in a Senate still bruised from the most violent attack on the Capitol in two centuries […]

A Twitter account belonging to Iranian Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei has been suspended by Twitter after the account posted a photo that appears to show Donald Trump playing golf below a large drone and calling for […]

China has imposed sanctions on 28 United States individuals, including former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, over “crazy actions that have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs.” According to a report on Reuters, China’s foreign […]

Former President Donald Trump arrived Wednesday at his resort home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after leaving the White House for the last time, AFP reports. As Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony was underway in Washington, an event […]

Mr Joe Biden, set to be sworn in as the 46th President of the US, has set out a flurry of executive orders. In a statement on Wednesday, he said he would sign 15 orders after […]

President Joe Biden tweeted from the @POTUS (President of the United States) account for the first time following the inauguration ceremony, writing: “There is no time to waste when it comes to tackling the crises […]

US President-elect Joe Biden will name on Tuesday the first picks to be part of his administration, his chief of staff said Sunday, declining to say what positions will be announced. “You are going to […]

This followed the hijack of peaceful protests by thugs in the city and other parts of Nigeria. The United States has shut down its consulate in Lagos temporarily. Young Nigerians had been on the streets […]

President Donald Trump admits he tried to minimise the seriousness of the threat from Covid-19 at the outset of the pandemic in audio recordings released Wednesday from interviews with veteran US journalist Bob Woodward. “I […]