Malawi delays reopening schools as cholera cases surge
Blantyre, Malawi Reuters Malawi has delayed the opening of public schools in the southern African country’s two major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe, the health minister said Monday, to try to slow down a surge in cholera deaths. The total number of cases and deaths has accelerated to 17,824 and 595 respectively since cases were […]
Mexico elects first female Supreme Court president
Mexico CityReuters Mexico’s Supreme Court on Monday elected its first female president, who has pushed back against the government’s nationalist energy agenda, amid a succession process clouded by allegations of plagiarism against another justice competing for the job. By a six-to-five majority vote, the justices chose Norma Pina to head Mexico’s highest court, putting in […]
Brazil bids farewell to ‘king of soccer’ Pele with 24-hour wake
Santos, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian coastal city of Santos, which sporting giant Pele turned into a byword for soccer brilliance during a glittering club career, started bidding goodbye to its hero on Monday with a 24-hour wake. Mourners lined up to see Pele’s body in an open casket in the center of the field at the […]
Tens of thousands view body of former Pope Benedict
Vatican CityReuters A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St Peter’s Basilica on Monday to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body was laying in state without any papal paraphernalia ahead of his funeral this week. Benedict, a hero to conservative Catholics who yearned for a return to […]
Anger in Russia as scores of troops killed in one of Ukraine war’s deadliest strikes
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war’s deadliest strikes, drawing demands from Russian nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. Russia’s defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed a […]
Migrants arrive in record numbers in Panama in 2022, data shows
Panama City, Panama Reuters Migrants arrived at record numbers in Panama in 2022, the Central American nation said Sunday, with most of them leaving Venezuela and crossing the dangerous Darien Gap region in an attempt to reach the United States. With 248,283 migrants from different countries recorded by Panamanian authorities, the number for last year […]
Benedict leaves German homeland with complicated legacy
Berlin, Germany AP Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. Benedict has long drawn mixed reviews in Germany, a […]
Nine suffocate to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush – police
Kampala, Uganda Reuters At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, […]
At least 14 dead in armed attack on prison in Mexican border city Juarez
Mexico CityReuters Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city. The Chihuahua state prosecutor said in a statement that among those who died in the prison attack […]
Papal passing: Benedict’s death paves way for protocols to guide future popes
NICOLE WINFIELD, of Associated Press, reports on the Vatican response to Pope Emeritus Benedict’s XVI’s death…