In doping scandal, Russia opts for ‘honourable surrender’
MOSCOW - Moscow has a reputation for fiercely defending its standing on the world stage, but in a years-long and embarrassing doping scandal in...
Afghan forces fighting to retake Pakistan border crossing
KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN) - Afghan forces clashed Friday with Taliban fighters in Spin Boldak after launching an operation to retake the key border crossing with...
Hundreds missing in Germany as floods batter Europe
BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Germany: Emergency responders were on Friday still searching for hundreds of missing people after the worst floods in living memory killed at...
Blue Origin says will fly 18-year-old to space on July 20
WASHINGTON - Blue Origin said Thursday an 18-year-old paying customer will fly to space on the company's maiden crewed spaceflight on July 20, becoming...
Russia races to build giant ice-breakers for Arctic dominance
SAINT PETERSBURG - At Saint Petersburg's historic Baltic Shipyard, cranes hover over the shining Neva River as hundreds of workers build four nuclear-powered ice-breakers.Fronted...
UN warns of ‘perfect storm’ as childhood vaccination plummets
GENEVA: The UN warned Thursday that a "perfect storm" was brewing, with a raging pandemic disrupting access to routine vaccinations, leaving millions of children...
Pregnant women and mothers threatened by Afghan violence
DAND (AFGHANISTAN) - Married to a much older man in Afghanistan, Wati -- who thinks she is around 30 years old -- is pregnant...
‘Survival struggle’: Ethnic standoff drives new phase of Tigray war
HUMERA (ETHIOPIA) - Asfaw Abera fled his homeland in northwestern Ethiopia three decades ago, stealing away on foot into Sudan as soldiers and ethnic...
US Democrats agree on $3.5 trillion budget target
WASHINGTON - Top US Senate Democrats agreed late Tuesday on a $3.5 trillion package to implement President Joe Biden's vast plans to fund climate...
Death toll rises to 64 in Iraq Covid unit fire: medic
NASIRIYAH (IRAQ) - A fire which enveloped a Covid isolation unit in southern Iraq killed 64 people, a medical source told AFP in an...
