British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked tough on Sunday ahead of a crucial round of post-Brexit trade talks with the European Union, saying Britain could walk away from the talks within weeks and insisting that a no-deal exit would be a “good outcome for the U.K.”
More than 7 million people were advised to evacuate on Sunday as Typhoon Haishen battered Japan’s southern mainland.
Leading journalism groups have condemned a court in Slovakia for acquitting main suspects in the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée.
Italian researchers have found that COVID-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine in Italy had a 30% lower in-hospital death rate compared to those who did not receive the medicine, Study Finds reports. Researchers from IRCCS Neuromed at the Mediterranean Neurological Institute studied 3,451 patients in 33 coronavirus-focused hospitals across Italy. The results were published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine.
The United States is cutting at least roughly $100 million in aid to impoverished Ethiopia due to its “lack of progress” in talks with Egypt and Sudan over a massive disputed dam project on the Nile River, officials confirmed.
Hungary’s fiercely anti-migration government has closed its borders to most foreigners, citing an increase in coronavirus cases, prompting an angry reaction from the European Union’s executive.
The team of exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says she will address the United Nations Security Council. Her address later this week comes amid mounting pressure in longtime Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down.
Official results from Sunday’s parliamentary vote in the Balkan nation of Montenegro suggest that the pro-Western party of the long-serving president Milo Djukanovic may struggle to form a government. Despite its narrow victory, pro-Russian and pro-Russian parties seem in a better position to get enough mandates to form a ruling coalition.
President Trump has long expressed exasperation at European governments’ reluctance to repatriate captured ISIS fighters who are their citizens, and on Monday that frustration led to the U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution that failed to address the issue.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months late Friday, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.
Germany’s government has condemned attempts by activists of a massive protest against Coronavirus restrictions to storm the nation’s parliament building.
Hundreds of migrants fleeing war, persecution, and poverty are stuck at rescue ships in the Mediterranean as European nations refuse them entry.
Police in Belarus detained dozens of people and separately jailed two opposition leaders after dispersing protesters who gathered on the capital’s central square Wednesday. It comes amid ongoing protests against the autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko, who claims to have won the August 9 election with 80 percent of the vote.
The Justice Department has requested COVID-19 data from the governors of four Democratic-run states that the government says may have caused thousands of deaths in nursing homes, Just the News reports. The department said in a statement that the requests “are not accusations of fault or wrongdoing by the states or any other individual or entity, and the department has not reached any conclusions about these matters.”
Christians, including children, have been kidnapped and one person was killed and a church destroyed in the latest attacks by Muslim fighters in north-central Nigeria, an advocacy group said Wednesday.
Two leading figures of Belarus’s growing protest movement have been given 10-day jail terms for organizing rallies against the authoritarian president.
The German economy, Europe’s largest, contracted by a record 9.7% in the second quarter as consumer spending, company investments and exports saw a steep decline due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It was a highly touted summit, with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustapha Kadhimi reaching out to potential allies Egypt and Jordan in what appeared to be a bid to loosen Iran’s grip on Iraqi politics. Pro-Iranian militias have been accused of interfering in Iraqi government decisions and attacking protesters who oppose them.
The leading evangelical college in the United States, Liberty University, says it has accepted the resignation of its embattled president Jerry Falwell Jr. over alleged sexual relations that are not in line with the institute`s teaching.
Authorities in Belarus have detained two leading opposition activists following the most massive rally so far against President Alexander Lukashenko.