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Football legend Diego Maradona dies at 60

by adminmd | Nov 26, 2020 | Top Left, World News

Argentinian football legend Diego Armando Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 60. Argentina President Alberto Fernandez declared three days of national mourning following Maradona’s death in the city of...

Bill Gates says the world will need 7 billion vaccine doses to end COVID-19 pandemic

by adminmd | Nov 23, 2020 | Top Middle, World News

Bill Gates has been big on vaccines since before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but in a new blog posting, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says the only way to end the pandemic for good is to offer a vaccine to almost all of the...

The EU suffered a major loss in Nagorno-Karabakh

by adminmd | Nov 23, 2020 | Top Right, World News

Earlier this month Russian President Vladimir Putin huddled with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and in a few hours hammered out a peace agreement to stop the month-long Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh....

Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China

by adminmd | Nov 22, 2020 | Top Left, World News

Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights. The Uyghur Forced...

Azerbaijan troops enter first district handed over by Armenia

by adminmd | Nov 21, 2020 | Top Left, World News

Azerbaijan said on Friday its troops had entered a district bordering Nagorno-Karabakh handed back by Armenian separatists after almost 30 years as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of fighting in the region. Troops moved into the district of Aghdam,...

Obama book narrates how Erdoğan fights against Islamophobia

by adminmd | Nov 21, 2020 | Top Middle, World News

In a passage of his newly released book called “A Promised Land,” former U.S. President Barack Obama — the first Black leader to sit as head of the White House — narrated how Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan waged a struggle on the...