Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ramadan Abu-Janah, on Sunday, discussed with the Indonesian Charge D’affaires to Libya healthcare on cooperation between the two countries. Abu-Janah doubles as Libya’s acting Health Minister. The meeting discussed providing necessary healthcare for migrants in Libya and recruiting Indonesian medical personnel in hospitals in remote areas, the government said in a […]
Russia will launch the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring home three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). This is as the astronauts’ Soyuz MS-22 spaceship has an emergency situation, Russian space authorities said on Saturday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard […]
Kentucky progressive Democrat and gubernatorial candidate, Geoffrey Young, has proposed immediate impeachment of President Joe Biden for war crimes committed by his administration. “I think Joe Biden should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq etc,” Young tweeted. He specified that reasons for the impeachment include “the illegal proxy war against […]
Four family members died in a road accident on Saturday in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro, said an official. Majid Mwanga, the Kilosa District Commissioner in the Morogoro region, said the accident occurred at around 9.20 a.m. local time. A salon car, in which the family was travelling in, collided head-on with a truck at […]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, appealed for $272.3 million to provide humanitarian services to three million people in Somalia, including two million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds would help it expand the delivery of essential multisectoral services. The services will focus on hard-to-reach areas and will strengthen its leadership […]
Seven persons died and ten more were injured in an explosion near the Afghan Foreign Ministry building in Kabul on Tuesday, a Qatar-based media outlet reported. A separate new outlet earlier claimed that the blast killed or wounded more than 20 people. Taliban spokesman, Ahmadullah Muttaki, for his part, told reporters that a suicide bomber had tried […]
Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister, Othman Jerandi, held a phone conversation with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, on Tuesday to discuss bilateral ties. They also discussed the issue of irregular immigration. Jerandi confirmed the dynamism of Tunisian-Italian relations, within the framework of supporting the strategic partnership between the two countries, […]
Ugandan health authorities have officially announced the end of the Ebola virus outbreak after the last known Ebola patient was discharged from the hospital. “Uganda put a swift end to the Ebola outbreak by ramping up key control measures such as surveillance, contact tracing and infection, prevention and control,” an official statement reads. The World […]
Sales of BMW and mini battery electric vehicles (BEVs) more than doubled year-on-year and reached 215,755 units in 2022, the BMW Group said on Tuesday. “We are confident we can build on this success in 2023. “This is as we continue to see high order intake for our fully-electric models,” BMW AG Board member, Pieter […]
The World Bank (WB) has cut the global growth forecast for 2023 by 1.2 per cent from 2.9 per cent, warning the world is at risk of a recession. The global financial institution cited a combination of factors for lowering its estimate. The factors are high inflation, rising interest rates and lower investment Other factors […]