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[ad_1] The Omicron variant coronavirus entered Tonga for the first time in the wake of last month’s volcanic eruption, officials confirmed Thursday, as the number of Covid-19 cases in the kingdom almost doubled to 64. Health Minister Saia Piukala said 31 new cases had been detected in the previous 24 hours, a record for the […]

[ad_1] WASHINGTON/LONDON:World stocks rallied on Wednesday, with Wall Street rising again on a Big Tech boost and European shares gaining on strong earnings as investors put aside worries about rising interest rates for now. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield slipped from multi-year highs hit in the previous session, helping steady sentiment across global markets

[ad_1] TUNIS: Tunisian President Kais Saied will change the Supreme Judicial Council but not abolish it, the justice minister said on Wednesday, days after the president stated his plan to dissolve the body met intense criticism, including from Western donors whose help is needed to avert a crisis in public finances. The president, however, said

[ad_1] WINDSOR/OTTAWA/WASHINGTON:Truckers opposed to coronavirus mandates risk hurting the auto sector and agriculture as they block U.S-Canada border crossings, the White House said on Wednesday as Ford halted some output and Ottawa urged an end to the 13-day-long protests. Many pandemic-weary Western countries will soon mark two years of restrictions as copycat protests spread to

[ad_1] SAN SALVADOR: Salvadoran authorities on Wednesday freed a woman who had served a decade of a 30-year sentence on charges of aggravated homicide after suffering a miscarriage, according to a local rights group. Elsy, 38, whose last name was not released, reported an obstetric emergency in June 2011 while working as a domestic worker,

[ad_1] U.S. President Joe Biden and King Salman of Saudi Arabia discussed energy supplies and developments in the Middle East, including in Iran and Yemen, during a phone call on Wednesday. “The two leaders committed to ensuring the stability of global energy supplies”, the White House said in a statement. Salman also spoke about maintaining

[ad_1] COTONOU: Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded in an ambush by unnamed militants in a northern Benin park on Tuesday, the park’s management said in a statement on Wednesday. “In the afternoon of Tuesday Feb. 8, a team of rangers was ambushed in W National Park in Benin, while

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The White House publicly pressured Iran on Wednesday to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement quickly, saying that it will be impossible to return to the accord if a deal is not struck within weeks. “Our talks with Iran have reached an urgent point,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, noting that

[ad_1] The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 said Wednesday that “I didn’t kill anyone, I didn’t hurt anyone” as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over the jihadist massacres. “I didn’t cause even a scratch,” Salah Abdeslam told the court

[ad_1] New York on Wednesday joined a wave of Democrat-run US states to roll back mask mandates, a symbolic step towards restoring normal life in one of the early pandemic epicenters in America. Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she would not renew an indoor mask mandate for businesses when it expires on Thursday, citing a