WATCH: Israeli scientist awarded US patent for COVID-19 vaccine – ‘we’re very optimistic’
ZURICH, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed relaxing restrictions on arms exports to try to bolster its domestic industry and security policy, a sensitive move for the neutral country which has blocked the re-export of its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. The cabinet said it sent a proposal to parliament to…
Oct. 19 (UPI) — The United States has, at least temporarily, repealed a handful of sanctions imposed against Venezuela after its government and opposition leaders signed an agreement on conditions for presidential elections to be held in the second half of next year. The removal of sanctions was highly anticipated, though not without criticism as…
Supporters of Brazil’s outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, tried to attack the headquarters of the federal police in Brasilia on Monday. Tension escalated after police arrested a pro-Bolsonaro indigenous leader. Mr Bolsonaro was defeated in last month’s election by his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but some of his supporters refuse to recognise…
The breakthrough came after the U.K. government last week gave Northern Ireland politicians until Feb. 8 to restore the collapsed government in Belfast or face new elections. Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years, it said Tuesday — a breakthrough that could…
North Korean officials claim they have tested an “underwater nuclear weapons system.” According to Newsweek, the city of Pyongyang tested a “Haeil-5-23” weapon in the East Sea, sometimes called the Sea of Japan. The nation claimed to have first tested the underwater nuclear weapon in early 2023 and referred to it as an “underwater nuclear attack…
A state of emergency was declared in New Caledonia on Wednesday France hopes to regain full control of events in New Caledonia “in the coming hours”, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Thursday, after a third night of riots that have killed four people amid anger over a contested electoral reform. Rioters have burnt businesses,…