November 26, 2021
Sweden’s first female PM resigns hours into post
The newly-elected Prime Minister of Sweden resigned on Wednesday, less than twelve hours after taking office. Magdalena Andersson, the country's first female leader, led a government ruled by a two-party minority coalition. But an early fracture in…
November 26, 2021
Thousands of Mexican women march in protest against violence
Thousands of women marched through the Mexican capital and scuffled with police on Thursday demanding an end to femicide and other gender-based violence in the Latin American country. "They didn't die. They killed them," read one of the banners…
November 26, 2021
Australia investigates new COVID-19 variant found in South Africa
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Friday said it was investigating the newly identified COVID-19 variant spreading in South Africa and warned it may close its borders to travellers from the African nation if risks from the new strain rise. South…
October 18, 2021
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell dies from Covid complications
WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, the former general who was the country's first Black secretary of state and its first chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, died Monday due to complications from Covid-19, his family said in a statement on Facebook.…
September 18, 2021
‘Ebola is defeated’, says Congolese professor who discovered virus
Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 years ago. The 79-year-old…
September 18, 2021
Putin says Russia needs to work with the Taliban
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia needs to work with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting of a China- and Russia-led security bloc, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Speaking via video link…
September 10, 2021
WHO more doubtful about Covid jabs ending pandemic
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP)— The head of the WHO Europe was Friday pessimistic about vaccines' ability to put an end to the COVID pandemic, as new variants dash hopes of reaching herd immunity. Faced with the possibility that the virus may be around…
September 10, 2021
Biden on vaccine mandate: ‘We are in the tough stretch’
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal…
August 30, 2021
Ida downs New Orleans power on deadly path through Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that was still unfolding Monday, promising more destruction. The heavy rain and storm surge…
August 27, 2021
New urgency to airlift from Kabul after blasts kill dozens
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of people desperately fleeing a Taliban takeover and killed dozens. The U.S. warned more…