Premier League champion Liverpool said it was “deeply saddened” by the loss of treble-winning ex-manager Gerard Houllier after his death was announced on Monday.

Sports Desk

Germany’s health minister demanded that the European Union’s regulatory agency work faster to approve a coronavirus vaccine and bring an end to the suffering on the continent, but the head of the agency said Monday that his team is already working “around the clock”.

Washington formally withdrew Sudan from its blacklist of state sponsors of “terrorism” after the African country’s military-led government agreed to normalize ties with the Israeli regime, the US Embassy in Khartoum declared.

A shipping firm said an explosion hit a fuel tanker off Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah, a key Red Sea port and distribution center for oil giant Saudi Aramco.

International Desk

A senior military spokesman said Iraqi troops killed over 40 Daesh terrorists in Mosul in a major operation backed by the country’s Air Force Unit.

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The US is holding as many as 15 Iranians hostage under the pretext of bypassing American sanctions against the Islamic Republic, an official at Iran’s Judiciary said.