Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Moscow next week, where he will hold talks with his strategic ally Vladimir Putin just over a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine. Xi will be in Russia from Monday to Wednesday, Beijing’s foreign ministry and the Kremlin said on Friday. China’s foreign ministry called Xi’s trip “a visit for peace” that aimed to “practice true multilateralism… improve global governance and make contributions to the development and progress of the world”. The two leaders would exchange views on bilateral relations and major international and regional issues, ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin…
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Tanzanian health officials. PIX:Africa News. Tanzania has dispatched a team of health experts to investigate a mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of five people, the government said. The illness was detected in “a total of seven people (with) symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding in various body parts and kidney failure”, the health ministry said in a statement released late Thursday. The government has sent a rapid response team to the northwestern region of Kagera which borders Uganda to investigate the “communicable disease”, Tanzania’s chief medical officer Tumaini Nagu said in the statement. “Samples have been taken from the…
France will force Paris rubbish collectors to return to work after a days-long strike against pension reforms has left many streets in the capital piled with stinking waste. Police chief Laurent Nunez late Wednesday informed mayor Anne Hidalgo — who sides with the workers — that the government would use its power to “requisition” striking trash collectors, forcing them back to work under threat of prosecution. Around 7,600 tonnes of rubbish were piled on the streets of Paris by Wednesday, according to city hall figures. Government backers and the French right have hammered Hidalgo and the strikers with fears they…
A state of emergency imposed in Turkey’s quake-hit southeast is shackling reporters, a top media rights campaigner told AFP, expressing fears they will be pressured in the run-up to May’s crunch elections. President Recep Tayyip declared a three-month state of emergency in the affected provinces when Turkey suffered its deadliest natural disaster of modern times last month. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake claimed more than 48,000 lives in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria, flattening entire cities and displacing millions of people. Frane Maroevic, the executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), said reporters faced numerous hurdles in Turkey even before…
Austrian police tightened security measures at several sensitive sites in the country’s capital on Wednesday after its intelligence service received information that indicated a possible “Islamist” attack. “Our intelligence services have reason to believe that an assault with an Islamistic motive is planned to be carried out in Vienna,” the police wrote on Twitter. “As a precautionary measure” particularly sensitive “points of interest have been put under increased guard by regular & special operation police forces,” Vienna police said. After initially warning of a “non-specific threat” of an attack against churches in Vienna that caused widespread confusion among the public,…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Ethiopia on Wednesday to “deepen the peace” in the country’s war-torn north as he moved cautiously to repair relations shaken by the brutal two-year conflict. The top US diplomat was paying his first visit to the longstanding ally since the end of the war in Tigray, which claimed 500,000 lives according to US estimates, and led Washington to sever trade preferences with Africa’s second most populous nation. As China and Russia increasingly seek influence in Ethiopia and around the continent, Blinken opened his visit by voicing hope for better relations as he sipped…
Retail sales in the United States contracted in February, driven by declines in sales at department and furniture stores, along with restaurants, according to Commerce Department data released Wednesday. The cooler economic data comes after a big rebound at the start of the year, as persistent inflation weighs on consumers. The data is likely to […] The post US retail sales decline in February amid elevated inflation appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Pakistan police appeared Wednesday to have given up an attempt to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, ending a siege of his residence after violent clashes with hundreds of his supporters. AFP correspondents and witnesses near Khan’s home in the plush Zaman Park suburb of Lahore said police and paramilitary rangers had retreated after abandoning […] The post Pakistan police halt bid to arrest ex-PM Khan after clashes appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
President Joe Biden on Monday invited British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to the White House in June. The invitation came during a meeting between Biden and Sunak in San Diego, California, where they were taking part in the unveiling of a nuclear submarine pact with Australia, according to a readout from the White House. “The president and prime minister discussed the importance of continuing to deepen the strong, enduring economic relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. President Biden invited Prime Minister Sunak to visit Washington in June to continue this conversation,” the readout said. While in San…
Lawyers for Jair Bolsonaro say the former Brazilian president has agreed to hand over to authorities jewels gifted by Saudi Arabia and which entered the country without being declared to tax authorities, local media reported Monday. The post Bolsonaro to hand over undeclared jewels given by Saudis appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.