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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres leads call for Eritrean troops to leave but Security Council fails to reach consensus. The United Nations on Thursday alleged possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Tigray region including by Eritrean... Read more... March 5, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

US vice president and Israeli leader say court in The Hague has no jurisdiction over the issue as prosecutor pledges impartial probe. US Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Read more... March 5, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Zimbabwe has become first African country to authorize use of Covaxin. Zimbabwe on Thursday became the first African country to authorize the use of Covaxin, India’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine. News of the vaccine’s approval for... Read more... March 5, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The clash of environmental priorities poses a quandary for President Biden who made promises to both groups of voters. Last September, in the arid hills of northern Nevada in the US, a cluster of flowers found... Read more... March 3, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Colombian army bombs a base housing dissidents from the former FARC rebel group in Calamar, southeast Colombia. Bombing by the Colombian military has killed 10 and injured three at a base used by dissidents from the... Read more... March 3, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Mobile clinics have been set up to treat sick and those wounded in protests, but healthcare workers say their biggest challenge is ‘not to get shot’. Aye Nyein Thu finished medical school in Myanmar’s central city... Read more... March 3, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Angela Merkel says the bloc must prepare to vaccinate for new coronavirus variants across the coming years. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the European Union must prepare to vaccinate for new coronavirus variants over the... Read more... February 26, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Jailed opposition politicians have been on hunger strike for almost a month over their treatment by the government.         The jailed politicians face charges including conspiring to dismantle the constitution by force and... Read more... February 25, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Isabel Brilhante had 72 hours to leave the country.  Venezuela expelled the head of the European Union’s delegation in Caracas, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced on Wednesday, in response to... Read more... February 25, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The two countries also agree to increase intelligence sharing and cooperation on security issues, including ‘terrorism’ and crime. Pakistan has extended a $50m line of credit for defence purchases to Sri Lanka, its foreign ministry says... Read more... February 25, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments