Five years after a significant outbreak in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared another international emergency over Ebola.

The spread of the Ebola virus, which began in the central African nation of Congo, has been designated as a “public health emergency of international concern,” a WHO spokesperson said.

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Thousands of environmental activists caused five major British cities to “grind to a halt as Extinction Rebellion,”  a far-left group, as they protested climate change.

The members blocked traffic, occupied bridges, and disrupted businesses during their protest.

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Germany has called for a European Union-wide ‘redistribution coalition’ to settle migrants who are presently entering into Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. “We need a coalition of willing for a mandatory distribution mechanism,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. Germany will be taking a “leadership role” in accepting migrants coming from the...

Serious concerns over German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s health have grown after she was seen shaking uncontrollably in public for the third time in the last few weeks. Chancellor Merkel, whose term ends in 2021, downplayed the trembling episodes claiming she was doing “very well” and “no one should be worried.”

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Three senior UK lawmakers in the upper house of the parliament have resigned from the Labour Party over its ‘institutional Antisemitism.’ David Triesman, party’s former general secretary, Ara Darzi, former British health minister, and Leslie Turnberg, announced their resignation on Tuesday.

Triesman wrote in his resignation letter that the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour...

The son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef has caused an uproar in Gaza after he turned his back on the Islamic terrorist organization and fled to an unnamed country in Far-East Asia. Suheib Yousef exposed the inner workings of the Gaza-based Islamist outfit and its terrorist activities abroad in an

As Iran breaches the limit on its enriched uranium stockpile set under the 2015 nuclear deal, European powers scramble to appease the regime.

The European Union has started processing payments to Iran under a new trading mechanism, German media reports confirmed. While French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to rush to Tehran...

Iran tried to procure weapons technology to build up its nuclear program in 2018, Germany’s federal intelligence service BfV disclosed in its annual report published on Thursday. The intelligence agency found “clear rise in evidence” that Tehran has been working to acquire technical capabilities to enhance its nuclear weapons...

The number of individuals classified as Islamists by Germany’s domestic intelligence service has crossed 26,000, German newspapers reported. The threat from Islamic terrorism in Germany “remains at a high level,” the spy service disclosed.

The Islamic State is “restructuring itself into an underground terrorist group” following its military defeat in the Middle...

Iran will never build nuclear weapons because Islam forbids such a move, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tuesday. “It is us who, because of our religious views, will never pursue a nuclear weapon,” Zarif remarked.

The comments come as Iran speeds up its enrichment of uranium, bringing the Islamic Republic closer to...

In a rare showing of bipartisan consensus, several U.S. lawmakers have called upon Germany to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported. “For once, Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on something: The project is a really bad idea,” the public broadcaster added.

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, India, Japan and South Korea in an effort to build a “global coalition” against Iran. The Secretary of State wants these five Asian powers to get behind the United States in its campaign of “maximum pressure” on...

President Donald Trump is continuing with his policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran, promising “major” sanctions on the regime. “We’re putting additional sanctions on [Iran],” he told reporters before leaving for the Camp David. His administration was “moving rapidly” towards rolling out new sanctions, he added.

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The UK junior Foreign Office Minister has been suspended after a scuffle with a ‘climate’ protester. The altercation took place when close to forty Greenpeace activists, most of them women, stormed a black-tie dinner in Central London.

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While Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is committed to saving Iran’s faltering economy in the wake of the U.S. sanction, Tehran is emerging as a major cyber security threat to Germany and the West, the German intelligence service warned.

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