WASHINGTON (AA) – The US capital Washington, D.C. on Sunday reported its first case of monkeypox, a viral illness that can spread through direct contact with bodily fluids or monkeypox lesions. The case was confirmed Saturday in a resident who recently traveled to Europe, said the health authority, DC Health. “The collected samples...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Many people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a church in Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo state, officials said. The attack occurred at St. Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo. Officials at the Federal Medical Center in Owo said at least 50 injured people were rushed to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The first suspected cases of monkeypox have been detected in the US cities of Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, local health agencies announced Thursday. All of the cases have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for verification. The case in Los Angeles stems from a resident who [&hell...
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed a Palestinian and injured three others late Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The agency said Belal Kab’ha, 24, came to the hospital in critical condition after being shot with live bullets. It said three others also were injured b...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Seven African countries have cumulatively reported nearly 1,400 monkeypox cases so far this year, with 1,392 suspected and 44 confirmed cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday as the number of infections worldwide continues to climb following the latest outbreak. The cases have been reported in Cameroon, C...
BEIRUT – Veteran politician Nabih Berri has been re-elected Lebanon’s parliament speaker for the seventh time in a row, holding onto his record as the longest-serving head of a legislative assembly in the Arab world. Berri has maintained the position thanks to the 1989 Taif Agreement, which established a power-sharing deal among the country’s ...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AA): The Turkish national defense minister Hulusi Akar met his UAE counterpart Mohammed Bin Ahmad Al Bowardi in Abu Dhabi and discussed bilateral and regional issues, as well as cooperation in military training and the defense industry. Akar’s visit is the first from a Turkish defense minister to the UAE [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday refused to commit to calm amid Israeli escalation in the occupied East Jerusalem. “Mediators are seeking to get pledges from Hamas on avoiding escalation, but this is rejected,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency. “We can’t speak about calm at a...
JERUSALEM – Suriname is planning to open an embassy in the city of Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign minister has confirmed. “During our meeting in Jerusalem, Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin informed me that his country plans to soon open an embassy in Jerusalem,” Yair Lapid said on Twitter. A statement by the Foreign Ministry sai...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and four others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Monday. The target of the blast in Afgoye, located some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, was Hussein Jibril, the town’s former deputy mayor, a police officer told […]
