Africa
Urgent government action is needed to meet global targets to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and prevent the annual toll of 16 million people dying prematurely – before the age of 70 – ...
Protesters in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro clash with police who use tear gas and sound bombs to disperse crowds, as thousands rally against Brazil’s latest round of bus fare hikes. video AFP
An Egyptian court trying demonstrators for holding an unauthorized protest forged evidence at its latest hearing, a prominent Egyptian activist and the sister of one of the defendants said on Saturday. Mona Seif, the sister ...
Fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine has wreaked havoc on the health system, with more than five million people affected, the United Nations said on Friday. The World Health Organization said access to primary, secondary and ...
A leading human rights group says Saudi authorities have postponed the second round of public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam, citing medical reasons. Amnesty International says authorities delayed administering 50 lashings to ...
There have been more than 50 anti-Muslim incidents in France since last week’s shootings by gunmen claiming to represent Islamist groups, the country’s Muslim community said on Monday. The incidents included 21 reports of shooting ...
Several hundred people gathered outside France’s embassy in Argentina Sunday in repudiation of the jihadist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead earlier in the week. Demonstrators broke out in choruses of the Marseillaise ...
The UN Security Council condemned on Sunday a suicide bombing in Lebanon in the « strongest terms » after an attack on a cafe in the northern city of Tripoli killed nine and wounded 37. In the ...
Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an upsurge in mortar and rocket attacks launched just days ahead of planned international talks on the crisis. Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of ...
One of Cuba’s most prominent dissident groups said on Friday that 36 opposition activists, including a popular hip-hop artist, have been freed in the last two days. The dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) said ...
