Nigerian PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has replaced the country’s top military commanders after months of pressure over his response to the worsening security situation in the country ...The statement did not give any reasons for the overhaul of the country’s top-ranked commanders....
WASHINGTON – The USSenate voted on Tuesday to confirm AntonyBlinken as the next secretary of state ... Blinken is one ofBiden’s closest advisers ... Later, he became deputy national security advisor from 2013-2015 under president Barack Obama and then-deputy secretary of state from 2015-2017....
Forecast predicts handful of... They will be followed by a slew of other developed countries by the middle of 2022 and then most middle-income countries by the end of that year....
Police cordoned off a large area around the scene of the attack, with police media reporting that a large number of emergency vehicles were spotted in the area. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claimed that the suspect had acted under the influence of drugs, but officials have not confirmed the report....
Canadian lawmakers unanimously passed a motion on Monday that called on the government ofPrime MinisterJustin Trudeau to declare as a banned terrorist group the so-called ProudBoys, a white supremacist group and one of the staunchest supporters of Trump ... Members of the Proud Boys will descend onto Washington, D.C....
The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 19 ceasefire violations in Syria over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered 13 truce breaches, the Russian DefenseMinistry said on Tuesday....
Without the support of all Democratic senators, a rules change would fail ... The standoff between the two leaders all but ground the Senate to a halt in the early days of the new Democratic majority as the two sides could not organize the chamber's routine operations for committee assignments and resources....
</p>Koeman has recalled Lionel Messi to the squad for Wednesday's round-of-16 trip to second-division Rayo after a two-match ban for a red card in the Spanish Super Cup final loss.</p>Koeman told a press conference that the Argentine was "looking forward to it" but refused to say if Messi would start....
Thuringia’s spring lockdown was a “catastrophically wrong political decision with dramatic consequences for almost all areas of people’s lives,” the court said, justifying its decision ... The district court in the city of Weimar did not just acquit the defendant but also stated that the authorities themselves breached Germany’s basic law....
A “political delegation” led by the Taliban’s founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Tehran on Tuesday at the invitation of the Iranian Foreign Ministry... While the Afghan-based Taliban is not officially designated a terrorist organisation, the international community does not recognise it as a legitimate part of the Afghan government....
Security personnel then resorted to lathicharge and tear gas on protesters after hundreds of farmers deviated from their pre-determined routes. Earlier in the day, groups of protesting farmers camping at Singhu and Tikri border points of the national capital broke police barricades to force their way into the city ...BestofExpress....
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Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has resigned after a key coalition ally withdrew his party’s support over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to determine if he can form a third government ... The president will begin consulting leaders of political parties starting on Wednesday....
Based on the Presidential Palace statement, the meeting focused on ceasefire, violence reduction, political consensus, and the provision and ensurance of “desired peace” ...of the talks....