Lionel Messi was issued with his marching orders for the first time in his club career after he was dismissed for taking a swing at Asier Villalibre during Barcelona's Spanish Super Cup final defeat to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Setting their sights on a conflict at the very end of the world, Russia's marksmen have staged a series of training exercises in freezing temperatures, hitting targets at long range and concealing themselves in snow drifts. Read Full Article at RT.com

Beijing has mockingly rebuffed America’s latest round of sanctions, calling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “praying mantis,” as the Trump administration spends its final days targeting China over its behavior in Hong Kong. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran’s atomic energy chief has said the country is ready to cut back its uranium enrichment program if the US returns to the 2015 nuclear deal but says sites are now delivering almost half a kilo per day. Read Full Article at RT.com

After a video of his mother’s condition went viral, the son of a woman who was hospitalized after receiving Pfizer’s Covid jab told RT that, even though he was not an anti-vaxxer, he had serious doubts about the drug’s safety. Read Full Article at RT.com

Initially, vaccine recipients were asked to wait for 30 minutes after taking a dose to monitor for possible side-effects.

Those vaccinated against Covid are exempted from the rule.

More than 23.5 million tests have been carried out across the country so far.

The withdrawal came after the military’s request for a rethink despite an argument with the BGF over a China-backed casino hub on the Thai border.

The first doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive from India in February.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of January 18, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  3,261,125 . Reported deaths in Africa reached 78,874  and 2,676,282  people have recovered.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi also stressed the need for «close cooperation between Russia and Japan not only at the level of heads of state, but foreign ministries»

The relative growth of new cases has not surpassed 0.7% for three days

On January 15, the Foreign Ministry announced that Russia launches withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies

An eight-year-old girl was left with a pair of broken spectacles and a bleeding eye after she was allegedly hit by a food delivery rider on a bicycle on Friday last week. The accident happened as the pupil was walking home from school with her mother on a footpath in Bukit Batok Street 52. The impact shattered the girl's spectacles, injuring her eye and causing her to require surgery, her mother told Chinese-language daily Shin Min Daily News. Following the incident, the police said on Saturday they had arrested an 18-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a case of negligent act causing grievous hurt. The victim's mother, a 38-year-old accountant who identified herself as Ms Sathiya, told Shin Min that she and her friend had gone to pick up their daughters from school that day. While on the footpath on the way home, Ms Sathiya noticed a food delivery rider heading towards them. She instinctively pulled the two girls behind her but in the next second saw that her daughter had been knocked to the ground.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced her decision to fight upcoming assembly elections from Nandigram seat - a seat won by Suvendu Adhikari in 2016. The move is significant as this seat was represented by rebel Suvendu Adhikari who joined the BJP.

Protesting union leaders on Monday said that farmers have a constitutional right to take out their tractor rally peacefully and asserted that thousands of people will participate in the proposed event on January 26. The Supreme Court said on Monday that the Delhi Police is the first authority to decide the entry of protesting farmers into the national capital.

Akbar was replying to Ramani's argument that she was not alone but many women journalists have accused him of sexual miscount but he filed a defamation complaint only against her.

In a major milestone for the vaccination programme, letters will start being sent to those in England aged over 70 and people classed as 'clinically extremely vulnerable'.

Diana McKinstry pitched her tent near the ocean about five months ago in a bid to aid her recovery from depression. The community is now working hard to find her shelter as Tropical Cyclone Kimi approaches.

The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday asked the government to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the purported chats between Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and former Broadcast Audience Research Council head Partho Dasgupta.

[New Times] Effective Monday, January 18, all nursery, primary and secondary schools will be closed in the City of Kigali, the Ministry of Education has announced.

Задержание Навального осудили лидеры ЕС и главы МИД Франции, Италии, Латвии, Литвы, Эстонии, Германии и ряда других стран ЕС. Некоторые из них намерены обсудить введение новых санкций против России, если политик не будет освобожден в ближайшее время.

По данным газеты, Трамп использовал помилования для вознаграждения личных или политических союзников, а некоторые люди из его окружения брали вознаграждение в обмен на попытку добиться помилования. Кроме того, стало известно, что Трамп намерен объявить о помиловании сразу 100 человек накануне инаугурации нового президента.

Проверку инициировало военное командование, которое опасается атак или других угроз со стороны гвардейцев. В ней примут участие все 25 тысяч сотрудников Нацгвардии, которых отправляют в Вашингтон на время инаугурации. Пока свидетельств готовящейся атаки не выявлено.

Oil prices on Monday fell further from 11-month highs touched last week, ending a rally that started at end-October on production cuts and strong Chinese demand, with the market's outlook questioned as coronavirus infections rise.

NAIROBI, KENYA -- The U.S. military says its troop withdrawal from Somalia is complete, in one of the last actions of President Donald Trump's presidency.