AMMAN, Jordan: The Jordanian military said this week that its troops killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter from neighboring Syria. According to the army’s website, its forces prevented several suspected attempts to smuggle drugs into Jordan from Syria, and large quantities of narcotics were seized in separate operations that wounded several people. The Jordanian […]

AMMAN, Jordan: To assist during its crippling energy crisis, Lebanon has signed agreements to purchase electricity from Jordan transmitted via Syria. The World Bank is to finance the agreements, which are expected to bring up to 250 megawatts of electricity per day within two months, enough for about two hours of power a day, and […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: John Nkengasong, heading the African Union’s public health agency, Africa CDC, notified reporting teams on January 27 that Africa is expected to reach its COVID-19 inoculation goal of covering no less than 70 percent of its population by the end of 2022. Officials at Africa CDC stated that they were optimistic due […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts: A hospital in Boston has refused to perform a heart transplant operation on a patient, in part because the man had not received a Covid vaccination. DJ Ferguson, 31 years old, has been removed from the heart transplant list by Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, according to the patient’s father, David Ferguson. Ferguson […]

ATHENS, Greece: A severe snowstorm that swept across the Mediterranean region has stranded thousands of motorists on a motorway in the Greek capital, Athens. On January 24, more than 3,500 people were rescued, but some 300 drivers remained on the Attiki Odos motorway overnight. Parts of the city were also affected by power outages. According […]

BRUSSELS, Belgium: A European Union watchdog, the European Court of Auditors (ECA), has warned that the EU faces considerable economic and security threats unless member countries step up cooperation on operating the 5G mobile network. The warnings are included in a special report on the 27-nation bloc’s preparations for 5G, that will have greater technological […]

PARIS, France: Under the latest COVID-19 rules adopted by the French government, leading tennis player Novak Djokovic could be allowed to defend his French Open title in May, despite being unvaccinated against Covid-19. Earlier this month, Djokovic was deported from Australia and prevented from playing in the Australian Open for not meeting strict local COVID-19 […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: The percentage of students graduating from U.S. high schools in 2021 plummeted in twenty states due to Covid disruptions, signifying that the pandemic might have ended almost 20 years of progress across the country in securing greater numbers of student diplomas, according to a study. The decline in graduation figures was recorded, in […]

PARIS, France: During the course of several thousand years, wooden sailing boats enabled North Europeans to expand their businesses, influence and, at times, warfare. In December, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized Nordic age boats as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, and Norway jointly applied for inclusion onto the […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: To ensure that the U.S. economy remains competitive, the Biden administration will allow international students specializing in science, technology, engineering and math to complete up to 36 months of academic training at U.S. universities. The Department of Homeland Security will also add 22 new fields of study – including cloud computing, data visualization […]