In 2001, Allies invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the only time in NATO’s history and went to Afghanistan together with clear objectives: to confront al-Qaeda and those who attacked the United States on September 11, and to prevent terro...
A police officer was "justified" in pinning George Floyd to the ground before his death, says a use-of-force expert called by the defence team. Barry Brodd told the trial in Minnesota that Derek Chauvin – who denies murder – acted with "objective re...
The US will continue to support Afghanistan after withdrawing all US troops, but not "militarily," President Joe Biden, has confirmed. "It is time to end America's longest war," he will say in a speech later on Wednesday, according to preview excerp...
Rescuers are searching for the missing crew members of a large commercial vessel after it capsized off the US state of Louisiana. There were reportedly 18 people on board, and on Wednesday the US Coast Guard said it had so far rescued six. The 129f...
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully. The move is expected to delay the country's vaccination programme by several weeks. Drug watchd...
"Remix of old falsifications with new passages of Azerbaijani mugam", this is how the RPA Deputy Chairman Armen Ashotyan described Nikol Pashinyan's speech in the National Assembly, asking the opposition on his Facebook page: does it still want to go...
US President Joe Biden plans to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. This should happen before 9/11. Writes about this Washington Post citing sources. According to people familiar with the matter, thousands of American troops will remain in...
President Joe Biden has accepted an invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to speak at a meeting of Congress, the White House said. "The President accepted the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to speak at a joint session ...
The number of detected infections with coronavirus in the world since the beginning of the pandemic on Wednesday morning amounted to 137 million 442 thousand 147, according to data from the American Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, the number of ...
In Ukraine, as of Wednesday morning, 14,553 new cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19 were recorded, 12,384 people recovered, 467 patients died, the Minister of Health of Ukraine Maxim Stepanov said. "14,553 new cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19 ...
