Nairobi: Ethiopian forces have mounted a fresh battle for the strategic northern city of Dessie, residents said Sunday, hours after Tigrayan rebels claimed to have taken control of it. The capture of Dessie by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on Saturday marked a new step in its offensive in the nearly year-long war, after it retook most of Tigray from federal forces in June and expanded its presence into neighbouring regions.
Washington: Bob Dole, who battled back from severe injuries in World War II to become a five-term US senator and the...
BEIJING: China has released a five-year action plan on improving rural living environment amid the bid to promote...
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 552 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, the Ministry of Health said in a press release. Of...
Tunis: The Tunisian presidency on Sunday dismissed the country’s consuls in Paris and Milan and ordered financial...
Nicosia: A Syrian man is to go on trial in Cyprus for the murder of two foreign women whose bodies were unearthed on...
LISBON: Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa signed on Sunday the decree that formalises the dissolution of...
