South Africa has the highest number of infections in Africa More than a third of all Covid-19 cases in Africa have been in South Africa and there are growing concerns about the impact of a new variant of the virus. The country has received its first batch of vaccines, but […]
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Shutterstock When Ned Price began work at the CIA in 2006 as an intelligence analyst he was not yet ready to come out. Part of the process of applying for the job involved undergoing a polygraph test, which Price thought might reveal that he was […]
Kylie Moore-Gilbert – Wana news agency A British-Australian woman who spent nearly three years in solitary confinement in an Iranian prison has separated from her husband after hearing allegations he was having an affair with a colleague, according to media reports. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, 33, has filed for divorce from Ruslan […]
The news comes after both countries signalled a willingness to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, which was signed in 2015. Under President Donald Trump, the US pulled out of the deal in 2018 and slapped sanctions on Iran. Iran subsequently stopped complying with the deal’s terms. Joe Biden […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is set to announce this week that it will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago, U.S. officials said Sunday. The decision reverses another Trump-era move away from multilateral organizations and agreements. […]
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100. Schultz died […]
President Biden told “CBS Evening News” in an interview set to air Sunday that the U.S. will not lift sanctions against Iran unless the country first stops enriching uranium. Driving the news: The comments were revealed hours after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised address that […]
President Biden and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei do not appear to be on the same page, potentially leaving Washington and Tehran in a stalemate. Iranian state television on Sunday quoted Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in Iran, as saying the U.S. “must lift […]