20 Feb 2019; AFP: The rapid scale-up of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer in a handful of rich countries within three decades, and in most other nations by century's end, researchers said Wednesday.

Without screening and HPV vaccination, more than 44 million women will likely be diagnosed with the disease over the next 50 years, they reported in The Lancet Oncology, a medical journal.

By Badrul Aini Sha’ari 

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia continued to make the news in the Arabic newspapers of the Middle East following Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s statement to reject the participation of two Israeli swimmers in the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships which was supposed to take place in Kuching from Jul 29 till Aug 4.

Al-Jazeera guest columnist, Dr Muhammad Al-Umar, praised the Malaysian prime minister for his stand which opened the eyes of many Muslim countries, including Arab nations.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and dozens of other countries may have declared that Nicolas Maduro is no longer the legitimate president of Venezuela, but that has not loosened his grip on power. Maduro still controls the military, despite scattered defections. He has the loyalty of the Supreme Court. And he has rendered the opposition-controlled National Assembly powerless by setting up a rival constitutional assembly.

09 Feb 2019; DW: Warsaw wants Poles in the UK to come home and help the booming economy, well, keep booming. London now says it wants them to stay, but where does that leave the almost 1 million people caught in the middle?

By Sorwar Alam

ANKARA; 05 Feb 2019; AA: Turkey has become one of the top destinations for international students as the country offers tremendous opportunities for learning.

The importance of the country -- located at the crossroads of three continents – has also become clearer in recent years both economically and politically.

The government has announced a vision to draw around 500,000 foreign students by offering attractive scholarships.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one of the most sensitive security challenges in America: The State of the Union address puts the president, his Cabinet, members of Congress, military leaders, top diplomats and Supreme Court justices all in the same place at the same time for all the world to see.

Protecting everyone requires months of planning and coordination involving multiple law enforcement agencies, led by the U.S. Secret Service. Thousands of officers work across agencies in ways seen and unseen.

By Murat Aslan

ISTANBUL; 03 Feb 2019; AA: “At the end of the World War II, the average holding period for a stock was 4 years. By 2000, it was 8 months. By 2008, it was 2 months. And by 2011 it was 22 seconds, at least according to Professor Michael Hudson’s estimates from University of Missouri-Kansas City,” says Scott Patterson in his groundbreaking book, Dark Pools.

BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United States announced Friday it will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, despite global calls for it to tread cautiously.

The signing of the treaty back in 1987 between the United States and the Soviet Union was often regarded as a turning point of the Cold War and the pact was also seen as a fundamental treaty for the existing world nuclear non-proliferation mechanism.

BJP is in denial of the latest National Sample Survey Organisation’s data, which was withheld by the Modi government, showing that unemployment in India post-demonetisation has reached a four-decade high.

by Sitaram Yechury

31 Jan 2019; GANASHAKTI: PM MODI is clearly rattled by reading the writing on the wall concerning the outcome of the 2019 general elections. As a result, he is doling out various excuses and reasons in order to portray the efforts for unity, that is emerging among the secular opposition for the ouster of the BJP from government, as an act of either opportunism, an act of money bags getting together or an act of sheer desperation; that it is Modi versus the rest in the forthcoming elections. Let us examine these claims of the prime minister.

26 Jan 2019; DW:  Attacks on reporters by France's so-called yellow vest protesters are an expression of long-simmering anger. They want the media to change, while journalists say the demonstrators need to do some soul-searching too.

25 Jan 2019; DW:  Nancy Pelosi won round one in what is widely seen as the quintessential political showdown after Donald Trump conceded to postponing the State of the Union. It may not be his last loss, predict people who know her.