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A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 hit Sichuan, a mountainous province in the south-west of the country on Monday, killing at least 21 people according to a new official report, given by Chinese public television CCTV. Homes have also been “seriously damaged”, roads are cut and “telecommunications cut off”. Near …

A retired New York police officer was sentenced to ten years in prison in Washington for his participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the longest sentence handed down to date against one of the attackers. Thomas Webster, aged 56, attacked a police officer with the …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on phone with his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, about the ongoing war in Ukraine and urged Israel to impose sanctions on Russia, which is carrying out military operations in his country. More than 8 months after the hostilities launched by Vladimir Putin’s troops in Ukraine, …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet his US counterpart Joe Biden on September 16 to hold talks on a number of issues including trade and energy, the White House announced. “The leaders, building on their productive call in April and the US-South Africa Strategic Dialogue in August, will discuss …

Saudi authorities announced the seizure of 47 million amphetamine tablets and the arrest of eight people involved in the trafficking in Riyadh. The information was made public through a video posted on official Saudi social media with the caption “war on drugs”. These amphetamine pills were discovered hidden in packets …

Chinese authorities confined more than 20 million people in Chengdu, a metropolis in the southwest of the country, on Thursday, as the country faces a limited epidemic rebound. The country continues to follow a strict health strategy despite a number of contaminations much lower than the rest of the world. …

Police in Childersburg, Alabama State in the United States arrested Michael Jennings, African-American pastor of the local Vision of Abundant Life church, for watering his neighbors’ flowers. According to the pastor, his neighbors had commissioned him for this mission during their holidays in the mountains in the north of the …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR who died at the age of 91. They both hailed Gorbachev’s contribution to achieve peace in the world and efforts in trying to implement political reforms after the …

What to know about Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) who died at the age of 91 on August 30, 2022 in a hospital near the Kremlin? Mikhail Gorbachev, supporter of Perestroika, advocated a rapprochement with the Western world for a stable and …

US Department of Justice on Tuesday released new photos of so-called “classified” documents seized from the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump. Documents classified top-secret, some bearing the sign “HCS”, which in the language of the American intelligence community designates information provided by “human sources”, informants and other undercover …