Month: August 2021

Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country’s high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading … Read More

Al Shabaab fighters stormed a military base in the centre of Somalia on Tuesday and took over a nearby town, residents said.

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan overnight Monday visited two warehouses used to store hoarded medicines after they were raided by security forces

The UN and the EU expressed concern Tuesday over a spate of arrests of activists by Palestinian security forces, as the death of a leading activist in custody sparked persistent … Read More

The 2020 Paralympic Games will kick off in Tokyo with the opening ceremony on Tuesday as Japan struggles with its worst COVID-19 outbreak so far, record daily cases and an … Read More

Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country’s constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due to ethnic violence … Read More

The head of Iran’s prisons apologized on Tuesday for “bitter events” in Tehran’s Evin prison after videos leaked by hackers showed beatings of prisoners, a rare admission of abuse by … Read More