Battle for Marib: Last city in north Yemen under gov’t control

EU states, Navalny allies raise concerns over critic’s health

Ship blocking Suez Canal prompts flood of memes

Pakistan extends school closures amid third wave of coronavirus

WWII codebreaker Alan Turing honoured on new UK bank note

Nigeria’s crackdown on Bitcoin echoes global crypto conundrum

‘Islamo-leftism’: France enters its McCarthyist era

Suez Canal blockage halts $9.6bn a day of ship traffic

Tablighi Jamaat men India held for ‘spreading COVID’ share ordeal

Blogger ordered to pay Singapore PM $99,000 in defamation case

Cargo ship stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal affects shipping worldwide

Africa experienced 30% rise in COVID cases during 2nd wave: Study

AstraZeneca COVID vaccine 76% effective in new US trial analysis

North Korea launches suspected ballistic missiles into sea

States sue to undo Biden pause on US oil and gas lease sales

Virginia becomes first state in US south to abolish death penalty

‘Brazil is suffocating’: COVID surge creates severe oxygen crisis

Libyan commander wanted for war crimes by ICC shot dead

Biden names Harris to lead effort to stem migration at border

Ex FARC leader asks US Congress for help with peace deal

Erdogan says Turkey wants region to become ‘island of peace’

The president’s bodyguard who amassed dozens of cars and houses

Canada announces new sanctions on Russia, Kremlin vows response

Biden wants sweeping gun control, uphill political battle awaits

Pope orders pay cut for cardinals, clerics to save other jobs

Equal Pay Day: Biden and Rapinoe push to close gender pay gap

Pope taps Chilean sex abuse whistle-blower for Vatican panel

Qatar reimposes coronavirus-related restrictions

Pandemic cash hoard: Here’s how Canadians are spending theirs

Report: 2020 saw more violence and abuses in Colombia

Blinken tells NATO allies they don’t need to choose US or China

Purchase of Russian S-400 a ‘done deal’, Turkey tells US

Will Colorado shooting prompt US gun reform?

Space wine: Researchers analyse wine that spent year on ISS

China bashes US over racism, inequality, pandemic response

Why it is Biden’s call on the future of US troops in Afghanistan

The Indigenous people killed by Canada’s police

VP Harris says US border problems won’t be solved ‘overnight’

Sweden’s 2020 death spike lower than much of Europe, data shows

Macron warns Turkey against election meddling, renewing row

‘We do not accept those children’: Yazidis forbid ISIL offspring

FIFA bans Blatter for second time over financial wrongdoing

Shares of Reddit favourite GameStop fall as it mulls stock sale

Five things to know about the Suez Canal gridlock

Kenya orders closure of Dadaab, Kakuma refugee camps

Bangladesh defends use of fences after deadly Rohingya camp fire

‘You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin’: Company’s ‘Technoking’

Explosion targeting police kills three in southwest Pakistan

Eritrean troops killed more than 100 civilians in Tigray: Rights group

Suez canal blockage sends oil prices rebounding after sell-off