GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday it has granted its first authorisation for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting the disease in Africa. The approval of the...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP): A teenager who is accused of stabbing his mother to death in Florida was freed last year after charges were dropped in the fatal shooting of his father in Oklahoma. Sheriff Grady Judd in Polk County, Florida, described...
LIMA (AP): Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86. His death Wednesday in the...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight....
MADRID (AP) — Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday, four days after fleeing to the European country in a negotiated deal with...
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM
AP: Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on...
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM
TRABUCO CANYON, CalifORNIA (AP): Alex Luna, a 20-year-old missionary, saw the sky turn from a cherry red to black in about 90 minutes as an explosive wildfire raced toward the Southern California mountain community of Wrightwood and authorities...
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM
AP: More women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, a new study shows, and the biggest increases were in states that ban abortion. A research letter published Wednesday in JAMA examined insurance claims data from...
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 12:06 AM
BOGOTA (AP): A global human rights watchdog on Wednesday called on Latin American governments to improve protection schemes, grant legal status and reverse “onerous visa requirements” for millions of Haitians and Venezuelans who have struggled to...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 8:12 PM
MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Hurricane Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 storm that knocked out electricity to roughly 190,000 customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 2:54 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Timberlake is scheduled to enter a new plea Friday in his drunken driving case in New York's Hamptons, prosecutors said. Details of the plea weren't disclosed, but a person with knowledge of the deal...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 1:21 PM
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global human rights watchdog on Wednesday called on Latin American governments to improve protections for millions of Haitians and Venezuelans who have struggled to find work, access to health care and education in...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 8:41 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The post-pandemic spike in US inflation eased further last month as year-over-year price increases reached a three-year low, clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next week. Wednesday's report...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM
ALREADY ON ENTERTAINMENT PAGE LONDON (AP): Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit afro hair discrimination. In an open letter to lawmakers on Tuesday,...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM
HANOI (AP): The death toll from Typhoon Yagi and its subsequent rain that triggered floods and landslides climbed to 87 on Tuesday, as 70 others remain missing and hundreds were injured, state media said. Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit the...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 12:08 AM
LONDON (AP): The United States and Britain formally accused Iran on Tuesday of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine, announcing new sanctions on Moscow and Tehran before a joint visit to Kyiv by their top...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 12:08 AM
WARSAW (AP): The German government says it is cracking down on irregular migration and crime following recent extremist attacks, and plans to extend temporary border controls to all nine of its frontiers next week. Last month, a deadly knife attack...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumours that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he...
LONDON (AP) — Google lost its last bid to overturn a European Union antitrust penalty, after the bloc's top court ruled against it Tuesday in a case that came with a whopping fine and helped jumpstart an era of intensifying scrutiny for...
LONDON (AP) — An inquiry into an English hospital where a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill seven others began Tuesday as her supporters push to clear her name. But the inquiry's head made...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A man accused of dousing gasoline on an Ugandan Olympic athlete, causing her death days later, has succumbed to burns sustained in the attack, according to the Kenyan hospital where he was treated. Dickson...
AP: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are veering sharply in how they gear up for tonight’s presidential debate, setting up a showdown that reflects not just two separate visions for the country, but two politicians who approach big moments very...
ABUJA (AP): A fuel tanker collided head-on with another truck in Nigeria on Sunday, causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people, the country’s emergency response agency said. The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in...
CARACAS (AP): Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González arrived in Spain on Sunday after fleeing into exile as part of a negotiated deal with Nicolás Maduro’s government that dealt a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in...
Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28% from...
