ANKARA – The death toll from a building collapse in southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province rose to 22, while 48 people were rescued from the rubble. Ihsan Abbasipur, the governor of the city of Abadan, told Iranian state television that the number of injured people as a result of the collapse of a 10-storey business center [&hellip...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Zaid Mohammad Ghuneim, 15, was shot in the back and neck in the village of Al-Khader, near the town of Bethlehem. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, but succumbed to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified nine monkeypox cases in seven states, according to multiple reports published on Thursday. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the new totals during a briefing with reporters, noting that all cases so far found were detected by local laboratorie...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, on Thursday following a hospital fire in which 11 newborns were killed. In a presidential decree read on public television, Sall named Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye as the new health minister. Ndiaye formerly served as the director general of pu...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Eleven newborn babies died in a fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the country’s president said late Wednesday. “I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire that occurred in the neonatal department […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Clashes were reported in many cities of Pakistan as authorities ordered security agencies to take action against followers of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan who is asking the government to announce a date for fresh elections. Khan, who was removed after a parliamentary no-trust motion last month, announced a ...
ISTANBUL – The death toll from a building collapse in southwestern Iran has risen to 11, with officials fearing more people could still be trapped under the rubble. Mohammad-Hassan Nami, chairperson of the Crisis Management Organization, said 11 bodies have been recovered so far while the number of injured people increased to 32. Efforts are [...
GENEVA – More than 250 cases of monkeypox from 16 countries have been officially reported, but the disease can be contained, an expert from the World Health Organization said. Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the head of the Smallpox Secretariat of the WHO Emergencies Program, told journalists at a UN press conference that monkeypox’s risk to t...
Baghdad, Iraq – AFP Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm — the ninth since mid-April — hit the country, authorities said. The capital Baghdad was enveloped in a giant dust cloud that left usually traffic-choked streets largely deserted. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi ordere...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
