WASHINGTON—After months of insisting that China join nuclear arms control talks with the U.S. and Russia, the Trump administration signaled Tuesday that it will seek to negotiate a separate framework agreement with Moscow and move to bring Beijing on board later. The administration’s new negotiating strategy could open the door for an election-year arms control … Read more
JOHANNESBURG—Renegade soldiers in Mali detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and dozens of other senior officials in what appeared to be a coup attempt after months of civilian demonstrations calling for the government’s resignation. Malian opposition leaders and Western officials in the capital, Bamako, confirmed the heads of government were arrested at Mr. … Read more
BEIRUT—An international tribunal convicted a member of Hezbollah of terrorism and homicide over the assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 but acquitted three others and found no evidence that the militia and political group’s leadership was involved in the plot. Tuesday’s verdict comes just two weeks after the deadly Beirut explosion … Read more
Al-Shabaab militants’ deadly assault on a popular seaside hotel in Somalia’s capital has raised fresh questions about the threat posed by the terrorist group, despite a heightened U.S.-backed counterterrorism campaign in the Horn of Africa nation. The militants, carrying AK-47 rifles and explosives, detonated a car bomb outside Mogadishu’s Lido beach Sunday afternoon, before shooting … Read more
MOSCOW—Belarus’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, facing growing nationwide protests, said he was ready to share power, but only on his own terms, as the main opposition leader said she was ready to lead the Eastern European country. Demonstrators took to the streets in cities and towns around Belarus for a ninth consecutive day Monday, while some … Read more
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand delayed a national election by about a month after a coronavirus outbreak in its largest city of Auckland put a third of voters into lockdown. The election, which was expected to be dominated by debate over the government’s response to the pandemic, will now be held on Oct. 17, Prime Minister … Read more
TUCHÓW, Poland—Last year, this small Polish town near the eastern edge of the European Union passed a resolution proclaiming itself a “municipality free of LGBT ideology.” Last month, the EU responded by stripping funding for a program connecting Tuchów with a sister city in France. For EU authorities, Tuchów had violated a fundamental right not … Read more
MOSCOW—When Svetlana Tikhanovskaya walked into Belarus’s election commission to complain she had been cheated out of a win in last weekend’s presidential election, her campaign team expected her to quickly emerge to carry on the fight. Instead, she disappeared, resurfacing the next day in Lithuania. In a video posted on social media, she called for … Read more
NEW DELHI: The ambitious National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, under which every Indian will get a health ID that will ease access to medical services has been rolled out on a pilot mode in six union territories. The National Health Authority (NHA), the apex agency responsible for … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the launch of the National Digital Health Mission on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day. PM Modi, during his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, said that the mission will bring a “revolution” in the health sector in the country. … Read more