Headlines- The US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied reports that a US aircraft was shot down in Iran, which have been making the rounds in Iranian media.
- US president Donald Trump is still not ready to sign the ceasefire extension deal, according to US Vice President JD Vance, who stated on Thursday that the US and Iran had made major progress toward it.
- Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, stated that his country wants to control 70% of the Gaza Strip.
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), arrived the Democratic Republic of the Congo late on Thursday.
- After an explosion on Thursday, a large fire tore through an apartment building in Dallas, killing people, according to authorities.
Month: March 2021
Kenya Tea Job Losses
Kenya’s tea farming industry, one of the world’s largest, is facing job losses after a court in January ruled against a labor union’s attempt to ban tea leaf harvesting machines
Aggressor sets fire to victim of...
A man was arrested for domestic violence yesterday, March 14, by the Loures Division of the Public Security Police, in Santa Iria da Azóia, in the municipality of Loures, in the district of Lisbon, in Portugal. The victim, because of the severity of the burns to which she was subjected, needed medical care
Zimbabwe Snake Catcher Chawatama Marimo at...
Zimbabwean snake catcher, Chawatama Marimo, at work in Harare
Burkina FASO President’s Zoo Opens For...
When former president Blaise Compaore fled Burkina Faso seven years ago, he left behind a zoo of lions, ostriches, hippos and hyenas, which began starving to death. A non-profit stepped in to rescue them last year and has reopened the zoo to the public
EU to Slap Sanctions on China...
European Union members have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), European diplomats were quoted as saying Wednesday
UN Security Council Holds Arria Formula...
Anastasia Gridchina, Head of the Ukrainian Community of Crimea, addresses the United Nations Security Council Arria Formula meeting on the situation in Crimea on March 17,2021
South African National Parks Welcomes Successful...
The South African National Parks (SANParks) on Wednesday commended the National Prosecuting Authority in Mpumalanga on the successful prosecution of two long-standing rhino poaching trials in the Mhala Regional Court
Ghana COVAX Rollout
On February 23, COVAX shipped 600 000 doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, India to Accra, Ghana, arriving on the morning of February 24. The arrival in Accra was the first batch shipped and delivered in the region by the COVAX Facility
Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram
Boko Haram militants have terrorized northeastern Nigeria for more than a decade, driving what the United Nations says are more than two million people from their homes
Rights Activist Held in Psychiatric Facility...
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have formally arrested prominent rights activist Li Qiaochu, and are holding her in a psychiatric hospital in Linyi city, RFA has learned