ANKARA – At least 229 children have been killed and 424 others injured so far in the war with Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Office has said. Children in the eastern Donetsk, north-central Kyiv, and northeastern Kharkiv regions have been the most affected in Ukraine, the office said in a statement. Russia’s daily bombin...
LAIKIPIA, Kenya – An ornamental plant brought by the British colonialists to Kenya in the 1940s has been killing indigenous vegetation, especially grasses and bushes, thus creating food shortages for livestock and wild animals. Scientists say that the invasive plant Opuntia stricta or the prickly pear, is spreading fast across northern Kenya, ...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 27 Spanish diplomats persona non grata in response to the expulsion of 27 Russian diplomats from Spain in April. The Russian foreign ministry said it summoned Ambassador Marcos Gomez Martinez to lodge a “decisive protest” and handed him a note ordering the diplomats to leave the country. Martinez was told [&h...
JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of South Africans have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of a white student who was recorded urinating on the belongings of a Black student at Stellenbosch University. Nearly 50,000 people had signed the petition to expel Theuns Du Toit, who urinated on the desk, textbooks and laptop of Babalo Ndwayana,...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the US decision to redeploy troops to Somalia. In a Twitter post, Mohamud’s office said that the president thanked and appreciated his US counterpart Joe Biden for authorizing the deployment of American troops to Somalia. The US is a reliable ...
Voting rights advocates expressed anger and disappointment Wednesday after the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s new Republican-drawn congressional map despite claims of partisan and racial gerrymandering. KS Fair Maps, a coalition advocating for fair redistricting, said in a statement that state residents “were let down̶...
No U.S. personnel will be held accountable for a March 2019 airstrike that killed scores of Syrian civilians including women and children, the Pentagon said Tuesday in announcing that an internal investigation into the massacre found that no laws of war were broken and that there was no cover-up of the incident as alleged in a New […]
Preliminary data show a double-digit spike in hate crimes last year, and a continued rise into 2022. Bias-motivated incidents in 37 major U.S. cities increased by nearly 39% on average. The 10 largest metropolitan areas reported a record 54.5% increase. Incidents targeting Asian and Jewish Americans accounted for the bulk of cases. The analy...
Abbott Laboratories has agreed to reopen its infant formula facility in Sturgis, Michigan. Abbott Chairman and CEO Robert Ford said its re-opening will ease the nationwide formula shortage. On Monday, the health care company said its agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ensure production resumes and is maintained at this f...
On Tuesday, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee received a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects. It’s the first time in a half-century the two are being addressed as potential foreign threats to the nation. Committee member Congressman Rick Crawford said intelligence agencies must prevent poten...
