Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he had to face a tough decision on whether to allow a big city to be flooded, or to direct excess water to poorer, more sparsely populated Indigenous areas
I don’t know about you, but I now see light at the end of the tunnel in our long battle against COVID-19. With a pair of very promising coronavirus vaccine trials, I am more confident than ever that travel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser promised a “very professional transition” to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden in an interview broadcast Monday, even as Trump continues to falsely claim he won the November
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday a working vaccine alone will not end the coronavirus pandemic, and communities and individuals must still be engaged. The comments come as U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna announced that its
The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is “extremely concerned” by a surge of coronavirus cases, particularity in Europe and North America. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Monday at a regular briefing in Geneva that the case
Ethiopian troops have advanced further into the northern region of Tigray, seizing a key town on the road to its capital, officials in Addis Ababa have said. The conflict between national forces and troops loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is heading towards the end of its second week. There are widespread fears the war…
AMMAN, JORDAN — Syria’s long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, an unyielding defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade old conflict, died on Monday. The government gave no details of the cause
A suspected Islamist extremist went on trial Monday in Paris for an attack aboard a high-speed train in 2015 that injured several passengers before three Americans brought him down. Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, 31, boarded the train traveling from Amsterdam to
ACCRA — The death of Ghana’s former president Jerry John Rawlings at age 73 on Thursday in Accra, sparked mixed reactions across the nation. Some were saddened by Rawlings death while others spoke of human rights abuses under his rule. Jerry John
NAIROBI — The conflict in Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region is less than two weeks old but is already having a growing regional impact, with effects felt in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia. Ethiopian government forces have captured the town of Alamata,