Kazakhstan’s Agriculture Ministry says a bird flu outbreak was detected in the Central Asian nation's northern region bordering Russia. ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka tows stricken oil tanker out to sea, douses fire
The Sri Lankan navy said on Wednesday it had extinguished another fire on a stricken supertanker loaded with 2 million barrels of oil and is towing it to deeper water. ( read original story ...)
North Korea cancels Pyongyang International Film Festival
North Korea has decided to cancel its annual Pyongyang International Film Festival, due to concerns regarding the novel coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
10 million children facing famine in Yemen with suffering ‘only likely to get worse’
The war in Yemen is one of the world's most intractable conflicts and its worst humanitarian crisis.The UN says more than 10,000 people have died in the past 18 months - 100,000 since 2015 - and 80% ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia chafes at Opec partners’ ‘false promises’ on cuts
Saudi Arabia has issued a rebuke against oil producers that have not fulfilled their share of supply curbs, saying moves to flout the terms of a collective deal were “damaging f ... ( read original story ...)
Dozens killed in fighting in Afghanistan as peace talks continue
Clashes erupted overnight in Nangarhar province when the Taliban attacked checkpoints of Afghan forces, official says. ( read original story ...)
Trump Admin Wanted to Use ‘Heat Ray’ on Protesters Which Pentagon Refused to Deploy in Iraq
A military whistleblower said federal officials asked about crowd control technology hours before protesters were forcibly cleared from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. ( read original story ...)
Europeans haven’t felt this poorly about America since the start of the Iraq War
Europe’s views of the US tipped unfavorably along with Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. ( read original story ...)
Iraq Ships More Crude Oil Despite OPEC Output Cut Pledge
Iraq has shipped more crude oil abroad so far this month, tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed, even though OPEC’s second-largest producer has promised time and again in recent months tha ... ( read original story ...)
WikiLeaks partners developed software to redact 400,000 Iraq War Logs
Psychologist and co-founder of NGO the Iraq Body Count told a court that Julian Assange insisted on stringent redaction of hundreds of thousands of documents which revealed civilian deaths in the Iraq ... ( read original story ...)