Russia

Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccine

11:46 pm August 26, 2020

Moscow: The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease […]

UN watchdog: Iran to allow access to 2 suspected nuke sites

9:25 pm August 26, 2020

Berlin: Iran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where the country is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the UN atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was “voluntarily providing the IAEA with access to the two locations specified by the IAEA and facilitating the IAEA verification activities to resolve […]

Pompeo shattering precedent, sparking fury with RNC speech

11:15 pm August 24, 2020

Washington: Mike Pompeo‘s planned speech to the Republican National Convention this week has sparked a fury of criticism for breaking decades of precedent for sitting secretaries of state avoiding overt partisan political activity. Despite State Department assurances that Pompeo will be speaking in his personal capacity and won’t violate prohibitions on federal employees participating in public political events on […]

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi set auction record in UK

7:26 pm August 22, 2020

London: A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have broken all records for a UK auction house by selling for 260,000 pounds. The glasses, which were dropped through the letterbox of East Bristol Auctions in Hanham, south-west England, four weeks ago […]

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny lands in Germany

Plane carrying ‘poisoned’ Putin’s critic Navalny lands in Germany

2:16 pm August 22, 2020

Berlin: A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down early Saturday in Berlin, where he will be treated in the German capital’s main hospital. Navalny’s spokeswoman and a representative of the NGO that arranged the flight confirmed that the plane had landed. “Navalny is in […]