India vaccinates 3.8 million teens in new COVID-19 inoculation push
Mumbai, IndiaReuters India vaccinated more than 3.8 million teens aged between 15 and 18 years on Monday, as the country expanded an inoculation effort to protect its large adolescent population ahead of a looming wave of coronavirus infections. The teenagers, many wearing their uniforms, queued at schools and health centres across the country as health […]
Wow!: In Egypt, lending apps boost cash-strapped women business owners
MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a traditional money-lending system known as a ‘gameya’ has been revived with a 21st-century twist as an app…
US urges civilian rule after Sudan’s PM quits
Khartoum, SudanReuters The United States has urged Sudanese leaders to ensure civilian rule and end violence against anti-military protesters after Abdalla Hamdok resigned as Prime Minister, throwing a transition towards elections deeper into uncertainty. Hamdok, an economist and former United Nations official widely respected abroad, had served as Prime Minister under a military-civilian power-sharing deal […]
Updated: At least 23 killed in armed clashes in Colombia’s Arauca, government says
Updated: 12.30pm (AEDT)Bogota, ColombiaReuters Twenty-three people have been reported killed so far in Colombia’s Arauca province amid fighting between illegal armed groups, Defense Minister Diego Molano told a news conference late on Monday. Fighting broke out over the weekend in Arauca – which sits on the border with Venezuela – as members of the National […]
4,400 migrants lost at sea bound for Spain in 2021, double previous year
Barcelona/Madrid, SpainReuters More than 4,400 migrants, including at least 205 children, were lost at sea trying to reach Spain in 2021, a monitoring group said on Monday – more than double the figure from the previous year and the most since the group began counting in 2018. The group, Walking Borders, or Caminando Fronteras, blamed […]
Haitian Prime Minister survives weekend assassination attempt – PM’s office
Updated: 12.30pm (AEDT)Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country’s independence, his office said in a statement. Henry’s office said on Monday that “bandits and terrorists” had tried to shoot the Prime Minister at a church in the northern city of Gonaives […]
Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
Birmingham, Alabama, USAP The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in the 1963 Alabama church bombing died Sunday. She was 93. Maxine McNair’s family announced her death in a press release. A cause of death was not given. Maxine McNair, right, and Jewell Chris MacNair, seated at left, parents of […]
China opens embassy in Nicaragua for first time since 1990
Managua, Nicaragua AP China opened an embassy in Nicaragua on Friday for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks since President Daniel Ortega’s government broke off relations with Taiwan. Foreign Minister Denis Moncada said there is an “ideological affinity” between the two countries. Moncada also thanked China for donating one million doses […]
Tutu remains interred amid call to rename Cape Town airport
Cape Town, South Africa AP The remains of Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, were interred early Sunday during a private family service at the city’s Anglican cathedral. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu’s remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar […]
Sudan’s Hamdok quits as premier after failing to restore civilian government
Khartoum, SudanReuters Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy. Hamdok, who had failed to name a government as protests continued against the military takeover in October, said a roundtable […]