BERLIN: German chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was facing the toughest situation in its history and warned the coronavirus pandemic that has wreaked havoc on the economy has not yet disappeared. “We see every day that the virus is not gone,” she said in a joint press conference with European commission president Ursula von der […]

The West Bank came under Israel’s control in 1967. It remains critical to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Disclaimer: I trust the scientific consensus on climate change. Now that this is out of the way. It’s summer in the Arctic. So temperatures are at their annual highest. Also, the Arctic isn’t a single place. It’s a large region of the planet, larger than the United States. It’s a 6,000+ km wide area stretching […]

Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption Protesters rallied against the new law in Hong Kong and police made several hundred arrests US lawmakers have approved new Hong Kong-related sanctions, after Beijing imposed a security law that has been widely condemned across the world. The US measure, which penalises banks which do business with Chinese […]

A Turkish court is set to open the trial of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The trial will begin at Istanbul province’s main court in the district of Caglayan at 10am local time (07:00 GMT) on Friday morning, officials at the Istanbul prosecutor’s office told Al Jazeera. Khashoggi, […]

US supreme Court WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump‘s administration to avoid disclosing to a Democratic-led congressional panel grand jury materials related to former special counsel Robert Mueller‘s report documenting Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The justices are due to hear the case […]

While they were nowhere near the size of previous July 1 protests, there was disruption and disorder in at least four districts, tying up thousands of police officers and causing traffic chaos. Police said around 370 people were arrested Wednesday, including 10 people under the new national security law. In a statement, a Hong Kong […]

You know what? I don’t care. It was repeatedly in the PDB, the thing that’s produced six days a week, that every single one of his predecessors read for as long as it’s been produced. It’s his fucking job to keep up with the contents, but no, he can’t be fucking bothered. Instead of reading […]

Image copyright LudidiVelani/Twitter Image caption Local media say the man was having a bath when police seized him Four police officers in Cape Town are to be suspended after dragging a naked man from a house in an eviction caught on video. Footage shows the man being thrown to the ground and stopped from re-entering […]