A former Liberian warlord was jailed for 20 years in Switzerland on Friday, becoming the first person from the country to be convicted of war crimes committed during the bloody conflict there a generation ago. Alieu Kosiah, 46, who was arrested in Switzerland in 2014, was found guilty of multiple…
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons into the south of the country, in the first flare-up between the two sides since a major conflict in May in which hundreds were killed. The strikes were the first…
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin kicked off their summit Wednesday with a handshake outside the Geneva villa where the two presidents plan to confront each other over the worst US-Russia tensions in years. Following an introduction by their host, Swiss President Guy Parmelin, Biden extended his arm for his first…
Britain was on Monday widely expected to delay the full lifting of coronavirus restrictions due to a surge of infections caused by the Delta variant. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to announce the government’s next step of its roadmap out of stay-at-home measures, after easing began in March. He…
The trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was expected to hear its first testimony Monday, more than four months after a military coup ousted her government. Near daily protests have rocked Myanmar since the generals’ February 1 putsch. The mass uprising has been met with a brutal…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to Israel later this month to hold talks with its new government after the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu, his office said Monday. The state visit, scheduled for June 30 to July 2, will allow Steinmeier to “bid farewell to departing state president (Reuven) Rivlin…
EU Council President Charles Michel congratulated the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday after an alliance of parties ousted Benjamin Netanyahu. “Looking forward to strengthening the (EU-Israel) partnership for common prosperity and towards lasting regional peace & stability,” he tweeted. The European…
The Group of Seven (G7) countries has approved $650 billion in loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to end the COVID-19 pandemic. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva broke the news on the fresh capital injection yesterday at the conclusion of her virtual participation in the G7 Leaders’ Summit. She…
World Health Organisation (WHO) and COVAX partners on Sunday applauded G7 nations’ commitment to sharing 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to assist end the acute phase of the pandemic. WHO, in a statement, commended G7 countries for the commitment to delivering half of the 870 million doses by end…
A Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile phones of people refusing to get Covid-19 jabs, in the latest move to penalise the unvaccinated in a country where only a fraction of the population have been inoculated.
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