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 […]
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s chief of staff has resigned. This is the second resignation in Bennett’s inner circle in just two weeks. A statement by Bennett’s office did not provide a reason for the resignation of Tal Gan-Zvi. Gan-Zvi was a close aide to Bennett for over 10 years and was considered […]
Sylhet, Bangladesh Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead. In Bangladesh, about two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country’s northeast for nearly two decades. At least 100 villages at Zakiganj were inundated after floodwate...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli missile attack south of the capital Damascus, according to the state news agency SANA. SANA, citing a military source, said the Israeli army struck targets Friday night using surface-to-surface missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights. The broadcaster said some mi...
