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Portugal said Thursday it will close schools for two weeks in a bid to contain a surge in coronavirus cases with concerns over the spread of a more contagious UK strain. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said the closures will begin Friday, speaking after a cabinet meeting just a week after […]

Twin suicide bombings struck a market in central Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 28, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The blasts came mid-morning, as people were doing their shopping in Tayaran Square. Video footage from the scene showed bodies strewn on the ground amid upturned tables […]

President Donald Trump arrived Wednesday at his resort home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after leaving the White House for the last time, AFP observed. As Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony was underway in Washington, an event Trump snubbed, he flew to Palm Beach aboard Air Force One and then traveled in a […]

Joe Biden on Wednesday became the 46th president of the United States, vowing a “new day” for the United States after four years of tumult under Donald Trump who in an extraordinary final act snubbed the inauguration. Two weeks to the day after Trump supporters violently rampaged at the US […]

President Hassan Rouhani has expressed excitement over the departure of America’s President Donald Trump set to make way for President-elect Joe Biden. Speaking at a televised cabinet meeting Wednesday, Rouhani called on Joe Biden to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift sanctions imposed on Tehran by Donald Trump’s […]

US President elect, Joe Biden this evening  will be sworn in as the 46th US president thirty four years after first seeking the job. The US President elect is ready to charting a new course to tackle COVID-19 and unite a splintered nation. He, alongside, Kamala Harris who will make […]

US President Donald Trump left the White House for the final time on Wednesday, heading by helicopter to a nearby military base where he will fly to Florida, skipping the inauguration of successor Joe Biden in an extraordinary break with tradition. Trump, 74, and First Lady Melania Trump walked a […]

A partial lockdown was imposed on the Chinese capital Wednesday, with 1.6 million residents banned from leaving Beijing, after a handful of cases were detected.AFP reports. Seven cases were reported in the city on Wednesday, including six in southern Daxing district. All 1.6 million residents of Daxing must not leave […]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office with 58.6 percent of the vote, in an election disputed by his main rival Bobi Wine who trailed with 34.8 percent, the electoral commission announced on Saturday. “The electoral commission declares Yoweri Museveni… elected President of the republic of […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday said the country will close all travel corridors from Monday as part of efforts to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus. According to the BBC, travel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers […]