By Johan Ahlander and Anna RingstromSTOCKHOLM -Stefan Lofven was on Sunday hours away from becoming the first Swedish Prime Minister to lose a no-confidence vote, after failing in a last-ditch effort to secure majority support…
COVID-19 has pushed over 100 million more workers into poverty worldwide, the UN labour agency said in a new report released on Wednesday."Relative to 2019, an estimated additional 108 million workers are now extremely or…
By Marc JonesLONDON – World shares struggled to extend a bounce off four-week lows on Tuesday, oil prices were at their highest in well over two years, while indecisive bond markets flip-flopped on inflation and…
MOSCOW – Armenia’s political fate hangs in the balance ahead of a parliamentary election on Sunday with opinion polls putting the party of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and that of former President Robert Kocharyan…
The Belgian government hs vowed to toughen its stance on sexual violence after a 14-year-old girl committed suicide only days after being gang-raped in a cemetary.Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne…
China passed a law to counter foreign sanctions on Thursday, responding to growing pressure from the United States and the European Union on trade and human rights.Beijing has accused the US of "cracking down" on…
By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA – Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have an opportunity this week to push for deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals, a step which could help persuade China to back away from an…
France's major telecom operator Orange has apologised for an "extremely rare" outage which put emergency numbers out of order across France.The unprecedented breakdown, which began on Wednesday and continued into Thursday in parts of the…
By Renju JoseSYDNEY -Two Australian states are on COVID-19 alert after an infected woman and her husband traveled from Victoria, the epicentre of country’s latest outbreak, through the states of New South Wales and into…
DUBAI – Iran has made 6.5 kg (14 lb) of uranium enriched to up to 60%, the government said on Tuesday, detailing a move that rattled the country’s nuclear talks with world powers by taking…
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