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Italy’s figures from 2019 show Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ranked as the 10th and 11th biggest markets for Italian arms exports. Italy has halted the sale of thousands of missiles to Saudi Arabia... Read more... January 30, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Clinical trial data also shows vaccine nearly as effective in protecting against the more highly contagious variant first discovered in Britain. Novavax has announced that its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in... Read more... January 29, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Army says it has amended its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear headscarves as part of their uniform. The South African military has amended its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear headscarves... Read more... January 29, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

A cutting-edge survey used mobile gaming apps in 17 languages to ask 1.2 million people about their views on climate change. The largest global survey on climate change ever conducted has found that 64 percent of... Read more... January 28, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Top US diplomat reiterates support for Southeast Asian countries in a long-running dispute over the South China Sea. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed the United States commitment to the support of Southeast Asian nations... Read more... January 28, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Sibusiso Moyo, who became the face of the 2017 coup against then-President Robert Mugabe, died at a hospital in Harare. Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sibusiso Moyo has died from COVID-19, the government announced on Wednesday.... Read more... January 22, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Display of military might at Pyongyang parade follows party congress at which Kim Jong Un admitted country’s failures. North Korea displayed what appeared to be a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at a parade on Thursday... Read more... January 16, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The move comes days after Saudi Arabia announced a breakthrough in ending the three-and-half-year Gulf dispute. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will reopen all of its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting on... Read more... January 9, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Court sentences Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior official of armed group Lashkar-e-Taiba, to five years in prison. A Pakistan court has sentenced Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior leader of armed group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to five years in jail... Read more... January 9, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The move is being seen as an ice breaker in the frosty relations between the two Muslim-majority countries in South Asia. Pakistan has lifted all restrictions on visas for Bangladeshi citizens, a move being seen as... Read more... January 8, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments