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WASHINGTON – China and Russia have sought to explain their vetoes on a new Security Council resolution that would have tightened sanctions on North Korea for its repeated ballistic missile tests. China blamed the US for simmering tensions on the Korean Peninsula in the first such instance of a permanent Council member explaining their de...
GENEVA – There is a “real” risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries, the World Health Organization has warned, while also reiterating that the COVID-19 pandemic “is not over.” “More than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox have now been reported to WHO from 29 countries that are not endemic for the disease,” said WHO [&he...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria’s ruling party elected former Lagos State Governor Ahmed Tinubu as its presidential candidate ahead of the general election early next year. Tinubu emerged the winner of the All Progressive Congress (APC) party’s electoral college after securing 1,271 votes from 2,322 party delegates in the nation’...
ANKARA – US sanctions have “returned like a boomerang,” affecting the American and European economies, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said. In an exclusive interview, Maduro said “it is very difficult” when he was asked about the possibility of the lifting of US sanctions against Venezuela. “Because...
PARIS – France is the second-largest European investment destination for Qatar after the UK, with assets of more than 25 billion euros ($26.7 billion), according to a recent study. The Gulf country has 42 companies in France through direct holdings or firms mostly managed by the sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority, a study c...
The Massachusetts congressional delegation—currently nine representatives and two senators—is fairly unusual in the American political landscape of 2022 in being composed of members of a single party, the Democrats. Only five other states can make that claim (Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island), while nine states ha...
Research published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA estimates that close to half of all new brand-name prescription drugs launched in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021 came with an original price tag of at least $150,000 a year, a finding that sparked fresh calls for Congress to rein in the pharmaceutical industry’s virtually unchecked powe...
In a clear show of support for the youth who have been fighting for a landmark U.S. constitutional climate case since 2015, the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition this week launched a petition urging the Biden administration to “end its opposition to Juliana v. United States proceeding to trial.” The effort comes after settlement ta...
A ruling by the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday “will have far-reaching consequences” for people who accuse federal agents of violating their constitutional rights, the ACLU warned after the court ruled against a man who wanted to sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent who entered his property without a warrant and ...
U.S. President Joe Biden was urged Thursday not to meet with Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman without securing “tangible progress to alleviate some of the most egregious rights violations” committed by the kingdom. Failure to do so, 13 human rights organizations wrote in a joint letter to the U.S. president...
