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Cargo Ship in Hormuz

May 3rd, 2026 - 09:03 GMT

Osama Ali

Small boats attack cargo ship near strait of Hormuz

ALBAWABA - According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations, several small boats attacked a cargo ship near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. This has raised new security worries in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. About 11 nautical miles west of the Iranian port city of Sirik, where the event happened, the ship's captain said that several small boats were coming up behind them and aiming at ...

A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) makes his way out of a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Soweto, on January 25, 2021. Michele Spatari / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 11:35 GMT

Equity, Fairness: Africa Fears of Being Left Behind in The Distribution of Vaccines

Israeli military forces (Twitter)

January 31st, 2021 - 11:22 GMT

Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Young Palestinian in The South West Bank

A Palestinian boy wearing a mask for protection against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic runs along a beach beneath a mosque in Gaza City on January 27, 2021. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 11:11 GMT

Israel to Deliver 5,000 COVID-19 Vaccinations to The Palestinian Authority

A Palestinian man rides his vehicle loaded with empty plastic containers that were collected from the street for recycling, in Gaza City, on January 31, 2021. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 10:53 GMT

Jordan's King Abdullah: If a Solution to The Palestinians is Not Reached There Will be no Peace or Stability

Lebanese MP, Michel Murr (Twitter)

January 31st, 2021 - 10:02 GMT

Lebanon's Oldest Premier Michel Murr Dies From COVID

A medical worker administers a dose of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus disease upon a woman at a clinic in the city of Blida, about 45 kilometres southwest of the Algerian capital, on January 30, 2021, where the North African country is symbolically starting its vaccination drive at the same place to have registered the first novel coronavirus case in 2020. At the end of December, Algiers announced an order of 500,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine from its Russian ally. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:56 GMT

Algeria Kicks Off Its COVID Campaign With Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a visit at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Paris-Saclay University research unit in Orsay, near Paris, France, on January 21, 2021. Macron will present on the day the French quantum strategy. Yoan VALAT / POOL / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:47 GMT

Macron Holds Off Third Lockdown Despite Surge in Covid Cases in France

Rohingya refugees look out from a bus headed to a Bangladeshi navy ship in Chittagong on January 30, 2021, that will take them to be relocated to Bhashan Char island in the Bay of Bengal. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:41 GMT

A New Start! For The Rohingya's Going to The 'Floating Island' May not be as Bad as it was First Thought

Riot police detain a man during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on January 31, 2021. Navalny, 44, was detained on January 17 upon returning to Moscow after five months in Germany recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent and later jailed for 30 days while awaiting trial for violating a suspended sentence he was handed in 2014. Pavel KOROLYOV / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 08:47 GMT

Free Alexei Navalny! Nationwide Rallies Rock Russia as Over 250 Anti-Putin Protesters Arrested

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed gives a press conference, in a tent set up outside the Abou Khalifa hospital, in Ismailia, about 120kms east the capital Cairo, on January 24, 2021. Egypt began its nationwide Covid-19 immunisation program today, with a doctor and a nurse receiving the Chinese-made Sinopharm jab. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 08:23 GMT

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Guantanamo (Shutterstock)

January 31st, 2021 - 08:16 GMT

The US Stalls Plans to Vaccinate Guantanamo Prisoners

Demonstrators light flares during a pro-choice demonstration in front of the constitutional court in Warsaw, Poland, on January 28, 2021, as part of a nationwide wave of protests since October 22, 2020 against Poland's near-total ban on abortion. Hundreds of Poles rallied in Warsaw against a controversial court verdict imposing a near-total ban on abortion. Protesters also took to the streets elsewhere in the EU member in what was the second night of outrage after the Constitutional Court ruling came into e

January 31st, 2021 - 07:49 GMT

Protesters Clash With Police in Warsaw in Rallies Over Ban on Abortions With Rape