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Fauci not advising Biden, sees no reason to quit Trump now: Reuters interview

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said he has had no contact with President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus transition team and sees no reason to quit to join that effort when there is so much to do now to fight the surging pande…

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UN warns of war crimes in spiralling Ethiopia conflict

UN warns of war crimes in spiralling Ethiopia conflictThe United Nations warned Friday of possible war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after 10 days of combat that the prime minister claimed had his enemy “in the final throes of death”.

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Hundreds of Ethiopians 'hacked to death' as civil conflict spirals out of control

Hundreds of Ethiopians 'hacked to death' as civil conflict spirals out of controlHundreds of civilians have been killed this week in a gruesome massacre in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to Amnesty International, in an act that the UN said could amount to war crimes. On Monday evening in the small town of Mai-Kadra, a few kilometers from the Sudanese border, “scores, and likely hundreds” of people were stabbed or hacked to death, Amnesty said, based on verified photos and videos the scene and interviews with witnesses. “We have confirmed the massacre of a very large number of civilians, who appear to have been day labourers in no way involved in the ongoing military offensive,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s director for East and Southern Africa. The UN Human Rights chief, Michelle Bachelet has called for an inquiry, expressing concerns that the situation could “spiral totally out of control”. “If confirmed as having been deliberately carried out by a party to the current fighting, these killings of civilians would of course amount to war crimes,” she said. Amnesty said it had not been able to independently verify who was responsible for the killing, although several witnesses had pointed to forces loyal to the Tigrayan leaders. Tigray’s leader Debretsion Gebremichael, who chairs the TPLF, said his troops had not been involved in the massacre. Hundreds were already feared dead amid heavy fighting and fighter jet airstrikes. Nearly 15,000 refugees have fled to Sudan since the fighting started, with the speed of new arrivals “overwhelming the current capacity to provide aid”, according to UNHCR. Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, ordered the army into Tigray last week after an alleged attack on a military base by the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The TPLF is the ruling party in the semi-autonomous region of five million people which borders Eritrea and Sudan. The Tigrayan minority was the dominant force in government until Mr Abiy came into power in 2018 and has since complained of being persecuted. This week, the TPLF declared a state of emergency in the region against an “invasion by outsiders.” The federal government says it is trying to liberate the region from the TPLF, which it has accused of atrocities during the fighting. Concerns are growing that the conflict could turn the country’s large array of ethnic groups against one another. On Friday, reports emerged that Ethiopian police had visited an office of the U.N. World Food Programme to request a list of ethnic Tigrayan staff. The local police chief informed them of “the order of identifying ethnic Tigrayans from all government agencies and NGOs,” according to an internal UN report seen by Reuters.

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Tigray crisis: Why there are fears of civil war in Ethiopia

Tensions between Tigray and the federal government threaten to boil over into a serous conflict.

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Iran considering total lockdown in Tehran: Iranian media

Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that Iran, the Middle East country worst hit by Covid-19, had identified 11,737 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 738,322. Iranian media said discussions we…

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Israel signs deal with Pfizer for potential COVID-19 vaccine

Israel signed a deal with Pfizer Inc on Friday to receive 8 million doses of the drugmaker’s potential COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, enough to cover close to half of Israel’s population. Pfizer confirmed that it had finali…

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Outrage in Belarus, EU after opposition supporter death

Thousands of people have rallied in Belarus on Friday following the death of a 31-year-old opposition supporter who died in a hospital after he was reportedly beaten by security forces, and the European Union condemned the continued violent crackdown t…

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Explainer: Why Trump's lawsuits are unlikely to change the outcome of the election

U.S. President Donald Trump’s litigation campaign to discredit President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is very unlikely to change the outcome of the election and is mostly about politics and fundraising, according to election law experts. Trump has repeat…

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Election 2020 Today: Secure election, China salutes Biden

SECURE ELECTION: A coalition of federal and state officials say they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week’s presidential election, rejecting unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud advanced by President Donald Trump a…

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Biden faces repair job at U.S. spy agencies after tumult under Trump

Shortly after comparing U.S. intelligence agencies to Nazis, Donald Trump tried to mend fences on his first full day as president. On Jan. 21, 2017, standing before a marble wall at CIA headquarters honoring officers who died in service, Trump pledged…

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'People got involved': how Los Angeles progressives swept the election

The city backed challengers over incumbents in key races, and voted to allocate money to support services instead of policeVoters in Los Angeles have approved new limits to police power, elected a prosecutor who promised to reopen police shooting cases…

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