AFRICA

DTC cancels Delhi-Lahore bus service

6:58 pm August 12, 2019

New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Monday cancelled the Delhi-Lahore bus service as Pakistan has decided to discontinue it in the wake of India revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, said a senior official of the public transporter. On Saturday, a senior Pakistani minister announced to suspended the friendship bus service from Monday. A […]

Egypt begins restoration on King Tut’s golden coffin

10:38 pm August 4, 2019

Cairo: Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country’s new museum opening next year, the antiquities minister said Sunday. Khaled el-Anany told reporters that work on the outermost coffin, which is made of wood and gilded with gold, is expected to take at […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Libya says largest oilfield closed, second time in 10 days

11:16 pm July 31, 2019

Cairo: Libya’s national oil company says it has suspended operations at the country’s largest oil field following the closure of a pipeline valve, the second halt in just over a week. Wednesday’s statement by the National Oil Corporation says an unidentified group on Tuesday closed the pipeline linking the Sharara oilfield to the port of […]

Pelosi likely speaker again, but might require high-wire act

US lawmakers mark 400 years since first slave shipment in Ghana

11:09 pm July 31, 2019

Accra (Ghana): US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the “grave evil” of slavery in a speech to Ghana’s parliament Wednesday marking 400 years since the first shipment of enslaved Africans to America. Pelosi was leading a delegation including members of the Congressional Black Caucus to the West African country, four centuries after the first slave […]

Tunisia sets presidential polls for September 15

8:19 pm July 31, 2019

Tunis: Presidential polls will be held in Tunisia on September 15, the North African country’s electoral body has said, rejecting calls to postpone the vote after the death of ailing leader Beji Caid Essebsi. “The office of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections has set the date of September 15 for the presidential elections,” the […]