Published on 23.04.2020 at 13h54 by AFP The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up. The UN health agency called on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 95 […]
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Published on 23.04.2020 at 13h54 by AFP Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief on Thursday warned the US of a “decisive response” after President Donald Trump said he instructed the US Navy to “shoot down” Iranian boats that harass American ships in the Gulf. “We declare to the Americans that we are absolutely determined and serious… and […]
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Published on 23.04.2020 at 14h54 by AFP Pakistan prosecutors have appealed against the acquittal of British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death 18 years ago for the kidnapping and brutal murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Wall Street Journal reporter’s beheading sparked revulsion and international outrage in early 2002, putting […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 16h54 by AFP France’s pick for the European Commission was interviewed by police on Tuesday, sources close to the case told AFP, shortly after she was given a powerful economic brief in the new EU executive. Sylvie Goulard visited the offices of France’s OCLCIFF anti-corruption force and gave a statement as […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 15h54 by AFP Bahamas authorities have updated the death toll from Hurricane Dorian to 50 with the number expected to climb, local media reported, as thousands are evacuated from the archipelago’s hardest-hit islands. Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said 42 deceased persons on the island of Abaco and eight on Grand Bahama […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 15h54 by AFP Spain’s Supreme Court said Tuesday it will announce on September 24 its ruling on the government’s plans to remove the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a state mausoleum, a move fiercely opposed by his descendants. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist government had planned to move his remains […]
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For Zimbabwe’s doctors, few institutions reflect their country’s decay under Robert Mugabe than their public hospitals, once vaunted but now under-equipped and crumbling. Latex gloves serve as urine bags, operating rooms lack light bulbs and patients are often required to refuel their own ambulances, medics say. Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at age […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 14h54 by AFP Margaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Tuesday, with “The Testaments” set to become a similar smash. A terrifying, misogynistic dystopia set in the US northeast in the near-future, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been turned into a major television series […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 14h54 by AFP Iran’s judiciary has been asked to investigate the death of a woman football fan, state media said Tuesday, after she reportedly self-immolated because she feared imprisonment for trying to enter a stadium. The country’s vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, asked the judiciary chief to […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP Italy’s new government faces a confidence vote in the upper house of parliament Tuesday, the last hurdle to overcome before the pro-European executive can get down to work. The coalition of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and centre-left Democratic Party (PD), led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, easily […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP A popular Russian rapper on Tuesday deleted a music video singing the praises of Moscow authorities ahead of contentious elections after it gathered almost 1.5 million dislikes on YouTube. Timati, a 36-year-old rapper known for his fervent support of President Vladimir Putin, posted the video, titled simply “Moscow”, […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 13h54 by AFP Incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday that Brexit — “should it happen” — would be only the start of a new relationship between the UK and the EU, and “not the end”. In an implicit warning to Brexit supporters in the UK arguing for […]
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