ABUJA (AP): At least 21 schoolchildren in Nigeria have been rescued hours after they were abducted by armed groups in the West African country’s troubled northwestern region, police said. The schoolchildren were abducted on Friday while they were...
CAPE TOWN (AP): The fire that has already destroyed South Africa’s main Parliament chamber flared up again on Monday about 36 hours after it started in the 130-year-old complex of historic buildings, authorities said. Firefighters have been sent...
BERLIN (AP): Tasty bits of bread did the trick for about 700 sheep and goats to join Germany’s drive to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The animals were arranged on Monday into the shape of a roughly 100-metre (330-foot)...
CAIRO (AP: Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, announced his resignation on Sunday amid political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests, following a military coup that derailed the country’s fragile transition to democratic rule....
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian health authorities Monday began vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more states started to enforce tighter restrictions to arrest a new surge stoked by the infectious omicron variant. State governments...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 21 schoolchildren in Nigeria have been rescued hours after they were abducted by armed groups in the West African country's troubled northwestern region, police said. The schoolchildren were abducted on...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general recently subpoenaed former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., demanding their testimony in connection with a civil investigation into the family...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation Sunday amid political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests following a military coup that derailed the country's fragile transition to democratic...
The United States is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and...
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Wintry weather combined with the pandemic frustrated air travellers whose return flights home from the holidays were cancelled or delayed in the first days of the new year. More than 2,500 US flights and more than 4...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the ...
Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp up virus testing among students and staff. And a small number of school systems are switching to remote learning – for just a short...
CAPE TOWN (AP): The remains of Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, were interred early on Sunday during a private family service at the city’s Anglican cathedral. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a...
KABUL (ANI): After the United States (US) has frozen nearly US$10 billion of Afghanistan’s assets and has imposed sanctions on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, dozens of people took to the streets of Kabul on Sunday demanding the lifting of...
Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp up virus testing among students and staff. And a small number of school systems are switching to remote learning — for just a...
With COVID-19 cases surging just as students are about to return from winter break, dozens of colleges in the United States are moving classes online again for at least the first week or so of the semester — and some warn it could stretch...
CAIRO (AP): The World Food Program (WFP) has suspended its operations across Sudan’s province of North Darfur following recent attacks on its warehouses, a decision expected to affect about two million local people. A statement released by the UN...
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP): In a sprawling settlement of mud-brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul’s husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage...
PARIS (AP): Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were – again – the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year’s Eve...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States airlines are asking the Federal Communications Commission to delay next week's scheduled rollout of new 5G wireless service near dozens of major airports, saying it could interfere with electronics...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu's “rainbow nation” filed past his plain pine casket by the hundreds on Friday to pay their respects to his life of activism for...
LONDON (AP) — New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday, and a leading food industry body has warned that the new border controls could lead to food shortages. Beginning...
More cancelled flights frustrated air travellers on the final day of 2021 and appeared all but certain to inconvenience hundreds of thousands more over the New Year's holiday weekend. Airlines blamed many of the cancellations on crew...
LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to ring in the new year, highlighting how the four parts of the United Kingdom were again taking starkly different approaches...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters rallying Thursday in the country's capital and elsewhere against the October military coup. At least four protesters were killed, a Sudanese medical...
