Month: August 2021

John Stones has signed a four-year contract extension that will keep him tied to Manchester City till 2026, the Premier League champions announced Tuesday.

Six EU member states have sent a letter to the bloc’s executive warning against halting deportations of unsuccessful Afghan asylum seekers despite major advances of Taliban militants in their country.

A fire broke out at a storage tank in a petrochemicals plant on Iran’s Gulf island of Kharg on Tuesday, but the blaze was brought under control and there were … Read More

A flagship U.N. science report on Monday showed no one is safe from the accelerating effects of climate change and there is an urgent need to prepare and protect people … Read More

A former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents arrived in court in Sweden on Tuesday at the start of a landmark … Read More

Lebanese pound fell on the black market Tuesday, trading at 20,650 to the dollar, as efforts to form a long-delayed new government stalled again over the allocation of key ministries.

The Taliban were in control of six Afghan provincial capitals on Tuesday following a blitz across the north that has seen tens of thousands of people flee their homes for … Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Monday and repeated a call for progress on human rights.