CALAIS, France (AFP) – On Sunday, France will host a conference of European ministers to explore measures to prevent migrants from crossing the Channel in dinghies, but Britain will be absent due to a disagreement last week. Ministers from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium will meet on Sunday afternoonContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The U.S. The US, led by President Joe Biden, will restart indirect talks with Iran in Vienna on Monday, but is significantly less hopeful than it was in the spring about the chances of salvaging the Iranian nuclear agreement. And if negotiations fail, its options for preventingContinue Reading
THE HAGUE (AFP) – On Thursday, the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine was approved in Europe for children aged five to eleven, paving the path for immunisation in a cohort where the virus is rapidly expanding. A panel of experts “suggested awarding an extension of indication for the Covid-19 vaccination Comirnaty toContinue Reading
BOSNEK (AFP) – In Europe’s deadliest road catastrophe in the last decade, 46 people were killed, including a dozen youngsters, when their tourist bus caught fire on a Bulgarian highway early Tuesday. The reason has not been identified, but officials suspect the bus collided with the guardrails and caught fireContinue Reading
VIENNA, Italy (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Vienna on Saturday, many of them from far-right organisations, after the Austrian government declared a statewide lockdown beginning Monday to combat soaring coronavirus infections. On Saturday, protests against viral restrictions were held in Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland, andContinue Reading
PRAGUE (AFP) – A Czech model condemned to more than eight years in jail for drug trafficking in Pakistan in 2019 was released on Saturday following her acquittal earlier this month, according to the Czech foreign ministry. Tereza Hluskova, 25, was detained in January 2018 at the airport in theContinue Reading
PARIS (AFP) – Libya was advised on Friday by world powers to stick to a plan for presidential elections on December 24, and that foreign mercenaries should depart as well, allowing the country to go on with its history. President Emmanuel Macron of France invited leaders and diplomats for anContinue Reading
(Web Desk) BIRMINGHAM — Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a Pakistani activist, announced her marriage to Asser Malik, the high-performance general manager of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday, prompting a flood of happy responses on social media. The two tied a knot of unityContinue Reading
(AFP) – LONDON (AFP) – The head of English cricket has travelled to Pakistan in an attempt to mend relations strained by the cancellation of a Twenty20 visit in October. On Monday, an AFP reporter in London learned that England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison had beenContinue Reading
(Web Desk) LONDON – After the US pulls out of Afghanistan, Britain’s defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has stated that the US would no longer be regarded a superpower. “A superpower that isn’t willing to stick at something isn’t probably a superpower either,” Wallace said in an interview. It isn’t aContinue Reading
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