Reuters :Guatemalan authorities on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling in a migrant caravan bound for the United States just as a new administration is...
Reuters :The worldwide coronavirus death toll surpassed 2 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure multiple vaccines and detect new Covid-19 variants.It took nine...
AFP :The UN Human Rights Council elected Fiji’s ambassador as its 2021 president in an unprecedented secret ballot after a diplomatic stand-off blocked the usual consensus decision.Fiji’s ambassador in Geneva, Nazhat Shameem Khan, who...
Reuters :South African scientists have discovered chemical compounds that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and even kill the parasite in its infectious stage, which most available...
AFP :The US military has cut troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 each, their lowest levels in the nearly two decades since the wars began, the Pentagon announced Friday.Outgoing President Donald Trump,...
Reuters :Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni was heading for a resounding win in Uganda’s presidential election with nearly all votes counted on Saturday, but his main rival Bobi Wine alleged widespread fraud and said citizens...
Reuters :Climate change could undo decades of work reducing malnutrition, scientists said on Thursday in a study finding that children in developing countries with rising temperatures are eating poorer diets.Higher temperatures often had a...
Reuters :A pigeon that survived the long journey to Australia from the United States could be put down due to the strict biosecurity rules in the country, but a trip back home is also...
AFP :Argentina on Thursday became one of just a handful of Latin American countries to allow elective abortion, as neighbouring Chile initiated its own debate on decriminalizing a procedure denied to most women on...
Al Jazeera :Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny faces immediate arrest once he returns to Russia, the country’s prison service has warned, claiming it was “obliged” to detain him.Navalny, who has been convalescing in Germany following...
Al Jazeera :Leaders of Indian farmers’ unions have held yet another another round of talks with the government in New Delhi in their latest bid to settle a dispute over a controversial set of...
Reuters, Ankara :Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan received his COVID-19 vaccine in front of TV cameras on Thursday, a move which a spokesman for his AK Party said aimed to alleviate any public doubts about...
