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Uganda tackles yellow fever with new travel requirement, vaccination campaign
By the end of April, Ugandan authorities had vaccinated 12.2 million of the 14 million people targeted, said Dr. Michael Baganizi, an official in charge of immunization at the health ministry.
Trump Ordered to Pay Legal Fees of New York Times, Three Reporters
The newspaper and reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner were dismissed from the lawsuit in May. Trump's claim against his estranged niece, Mary Trump, that she breached a prior settlement agreement by giving tax records to the reporters is still...
Fire ravages apartment complex killing 56, injuring dozens
The blaze started not long before midnight and wasn’t subdued until 2 a.m. local time. The apartment complex housed around 150 people.
Canada considers expelling China diplomats
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said her department was summoning China's ambassador to a meeting to underline that Canada won't tolerate such interference.She said the intelligence agency report indicated that opposition Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong and his Hong Kong relatives were targeted af...
Deadly round of Russian airstrikes hits Ukraine
Overnight, Russia targeted the southeastern railway hub city of Pavlohrad with missile strikes, in addition to the two deaths, 40 other people were injured, including several children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday.
Vietnam jails freelance journalist for six years
Nguyen Lan Thang, an activist and freelance writer who is well-known in Vietnam for his criticism of the government, was convicted of spreading "anti-state propaganda."
Two judges issue conflicting rulings on abortion pill
The drug the FDA approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in wake of two separate rulings that were issued minutes apart by federal judges in Texas and Washington.U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in...
South Africa mulls options after ICC's Putin arrest order
The court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader on March 17 for war crimes involving the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. South Africa is a signatory to the ICC's Rome Statute that obligates countries to execute the court's international arrest warrants....
North Korea launches more missiles, blasts U.S for raising tensions
The four Hwasal-2 cruise missiles flew 2,000 kilometers in about two hours and 50 minutes before hitting a "preset target" in the sea off North Korea's east coast, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
Blinken heads to Asia amid soaring tensions with China, Russia
The State Department announced late Thursday that Blinken would travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan before going to India for a meeting of the Group of 20 foreign ministers from the world’s largest industrialized and developing countries, including China and Russia.