The World Health Organization has announced that Liberia is now free from Ebola virus, signaling the end of the outbreak that has caused devastation to West Africa for two years.
Egyptian security forces are reported to have confronted two men wielding knives or guns trying to escape a hotel in the Egyptian coastal city of Hurghada, after they injured a number of tourists.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is blocking the assets of Mabrooka Trading, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, for its role in procuring components for Iran’s ballistic missiles. They won’t be on US soil for a few days, he said.
A fifth American was released separately from the exchange. Ghahreman, an Iranian-American in his mid-40s, was serving a 78-month sentence after being convicted in 2015 of trying to export US built marine navigation to Iran.
In the militancy-plagued Afghanistan, people from all walks of life have welcomed holding the second round of the four-nation talks on Afghan peace process to bring Taliban outfit into negotiating table and find political settlement to the country’s protracted conflict.
President Barack Obama on Sunday celebrated the release of Americans held prisoner in Iran and said Tehran had agreed to help in efforts to find Jewish American Robert Levinson, who went missing in the Islamic Republic almost a decade ago.
A Houston-based attorney has filed a lawsuit against Cruz, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to settle whether Canadian-born Cruz is eligible for the presidency.