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August 7th, 2026 - 07:07 GMT

Osama Ali

"I may be the last republican president": Trump warns GOP ahead of midterms"

ALBAWABA - US President Donald Trump has warned he could be “the last Republican president” if Democrats win control of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, and has expressed fear that Republican voters might stay home since his name will not be on the ballot. Trump told Punchbowl News he believes a key challenge for the Republican Party will be turning out his supporters to vote in the midterm elections ...

Indigenous Wixarika people from Jalisco and Durango participate in the Wixarika Regional Council in Mezquital, Durango state, Mexico, on December 17, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The Wixarika Regional Council was formed to defend the Wirikuta Sacred Zone where many ancient traditions and customs are kept alive. ULISES RUIZ / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 12:32 GMT

WHO Warns: COVID is 'Not Necessarily The Big One'

UN mission in Sudan’s Darfur set to end mandate (Twitter)

December 30th, 2020 - 11:45 GMT

UN Peacekeepers to End Sudan's Darfur Mission After 13 Years

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London on December 30, 2020 ahead of opening the debate on the second reading of the EU (Future Relationship) Bill in the House of Commons. Members of the British parliament were set to debate and vote on legislation on the UK's future relationship with the EU as EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 11:20 GMT

Boris Johnson Hails a Fantastic' Future For The UK After Brexit

New governemnt of #Yemen is safe in the Presidential palace in Aden after the attack on the airport (Twitter)

December 30th, 2020 - 11:17 GMT

Three Explosions Rock Aden Airport as Yemen's New Unity Cabinet Arrives

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December 30th, 2020 - 10:34 GMT

Trump Approves Arms Sales to Three Arab States Despite Poor Human Rights Record

In this file photo taken on December 14, 2020 French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), at its headquarters in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron, who had tested positive for Covid-19 on December 17, "is no longer presenting any symptoms" and his isolation of seven days can therefore stop, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on December 24, 2020. MARTIN BUREAU / POOL / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 10:26 GMT

French Initiative to Lift Lebanon Out of Its Political Crisis is Still in Place

A healthcare worker prepares an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at St James's Hospital in Dublin on December 29, 2020. Ireland kicked off on December 29 its coronavirus vaccination programme with staff and pateints at four hospitals across the Republic being the first to recieve injections from the first delivery of 10,000 doses received by the Health Authorty on December 26. Marc O'Sullivan / POOL / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 10:16 GMT

Argentina, Belarus Start Mass Vaccinations Using Russian Sputnik V Drug

Syrian air defenses thwarted an ‘Israeli aggression’ in Damascus (Twitter)

December 30th, 2020 - 10:11 GMT

Syria Air Defenses Stop Another Israeli Attack on Damascus

Hong Kong's acting chief superintendent of the Commercial Crime Bureau, Cheng Lai Ki (L), speaks to the media in Hong Kong on December 30, 2020, after the release of the two youngest members of the so-called "Hong Kong 12" held over the border in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen since last August when the 12 were caught trying to flee the territory for Taiwan. Peter PARKS / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 10:04 GMT

Chinese Court Sentences 10 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists For Trying to Flee The Island

Rohingya refugees sit on a Bangladesh Navy ship as they are relocated to the controversial flood-prone island Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong on December 29, 2020. Rehman ASAD / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 07:23 GMT

Forced Relocation: 1,700 Rohingya Refugees Arrive in The Isolated Bhasan Char Island

A protestor holding a placard is spoken to by police officers as she attends an anti-vaccine demonstration outside the offices of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in central London on November 24, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that thanks to a potential vaccine "the escape route is in sight" from the coronavirus crisis -- while warning that in the immediate future "Christmas cannot be normal". JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

December 30th, 2020 - 07:18 GMT

For ‘Herd Immunity’ 80% of The World Should be Vaccinated

Capitol Hill Building in Washington DC (Shutterstock)

December 30th, 2020 - 07:13 GMT

US Senate Will Vote to Override Trump's Veto of The $740 Billion Defense Spending Bill