Footage provided by RT’s video news agency Ruptly shows the fire erupting from the customs facility. The clear desert sky was quickly blotted out by thick black smoke. Local media say the fire originated at a fuel reservoir, and damaged four fuel trucks. The customs post itself is located in …
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“There are six neighboring countries to Guinea, and we conducted an assessment of readiness. Two of the countries are not ready and one is borderline and there are three countries more or less ready,” WHO Regional Emergency Director Abdou Salam Gueye said on Friday, by videoconference from Guinea. Guinea, which …
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“We are flooding the space with that critical message,” US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday in a White House press briefing. “I cannot overstate its criticality to the wellbeing of those individuals who are thinking of coming,” explaining that Washington is working with NGOs …
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Around 700 minors who crossed into the US on their own were kept in Border Patrol Custody as of Sunday, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing an internal Customs and Border Protection document. By that time, around 200 children had already been held up for over 48 hours, and in the …
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“We have received several queries regarding a face-off between Indian Army and PLA troops in Sikkim sector. It is clarified that there was a minor face-off at Naku La area of North Sikkim on January 20 and the same was resolved by local commanders as per established protocols,” India’s Army …
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About 7,000 to 8,000 migrants have entered Guatemala from Honduras in just the past day, Reuters reported, citing Guatemala’s immigration authority. Video footage shows thousands of people forcing their way through a police cordon as they cross the border into Guatemala. Two migrant groups with well over 5,000 people are …
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So, the UK is placing restrictions on people coming into the country. From next week, at some point, probably, though it might change its mind, the government will require visitors to have had a negative Covid test less than 72 hours prior to arrival. Yep, almost a year to the …
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In an address to mark the New Year on Friday, Henn Polluaas, the most senior figure in Estonia’s legislative assembly (the Riigikogu), decided to remind the Estonians of the Treaty of Tartu – a post-World War I peace agreement struck between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Estonia. “On …
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The measures agreed between Johnson and Macron will be announced later and come into effect from December 23, the BBC reported, citing French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune. Urgent talks were held after Paris decided to close the border with the UK for 48 hours following the discovery of a …
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The agency has demanded a massive expansion of facial recognition data collection at airports, land ports, and seaports, measures the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of over a dozen other advocacy groups have condemned as wildly and unnecessarily intrusive, discriminatory and illegal in an objection filed on Monday. …
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