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By Ebi Kesiena Over 29,000 people were evacuated throughout Malaysia on Sunday as the country faces some of its worst flooding in years. The tropical Southeast Asian nation often sees stormy monsoon seasons at the end...

By John Ikani  President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that his country will send 15 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa. Erdogan made the announced on Saturday at a major summit of the continent's...

By John Ikani  Plans by Guinea junta to rename the country’s airport after authoritarian ex-president Sekou Toure have been met with stiff opposition from rights groups. Toure led Guinea to independence from France in 1958 and...

By John Ikani  The Netherlands entered a tough lockdown from Sunday morning to limit a feared COVID-19 surge due to the Omicron variant. Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that bars, restaurants, and non-essential stores will close...

By Ebi Kesiena Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Saturday that they will resume issuing passports in Kabul, giving hope to citizens who feel threatened living under the Islamists’ rule. Thousands of Afghans have also applied for...

By Ebi Kesiena At least 12 people were killed and several more injured on Saturday by a gas blast in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, police said. The explosion went off in a bank building in...