Covid-19: Turkey imposes 4-day lockdown during Eid celebrations to curb pandemic
Police officers patrol the street with police dogs during a curfew in Ankara ISTANBUL, May 19 (NNN-Xinhua) — Turkish President…
Without human touch, Britain-EU Brexit talks struggle to find harmony
BRUSSELS/LONDON, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Stumbling through video calls, the long-troubled Brexit talks are heading for a new crisis as…
Israel swears in unity government after long political crisis
PM Benjamin Netanyahu JERUSALEM, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) —Israel has sworn in a unity government after the longest political crisis in the country’s history,…
Afghanistan: Rival leaders Ghani and Abdullah in power-sharing deal
KABUL, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Dr Abdullah Abdullah have signed a power-sharing deal, ending months of…
Covid-19: France and Germany propose €500bn recovery fund
Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron PARIS/BERLIN, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France and Germany are proposing a €500bn European recovery fund to…
Covid-19: US Pres Trump calls WHO ‘puppet of China’
WASHINGTON, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese “puppet” on Monday…
Covid-19: France intensive care patients drop below 2,000
PARIS, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care in France has fallen under 2,000 for…
Covid-19: Brazil jumps to third in virus cases worldwide as US shows decline
BRASILIA/WASHINGTON, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil has the third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases in the world, according to official…
Rocket hits near US embassy in Baghdad, no casualties: security sources
BAGHDAD, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One rocket hit near the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday morning, security sources said,…
Bomb kills six, wounds four in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA (Pakistan), May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Six paramilitary soldiers were killed and four wounded in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of…