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WHO: Risk to humans from bird flu is low but we must prepare

February 9, 2023

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva, on Dec 14, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON - The recent spread to mammals of H5N1 influenza - commonly known as bird flu - needs to be monitored, but the risk...

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8 dead, 5 missing in southern Peru mudslides

February 7, 2023

This March 15, 2022, file photo provided by the Parcoy Municipality shows the path of a mudslide in Parcoy, Peru. At least 36 people were killed in Peru after a mudslide buried several communities in the province of Camana, authorities confirmed on Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) LIMA –...

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Thousands of Danes protest cancelling of public holiday

February 6, 2023

In this file photo dated Mar 17, 2020, people walk past the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. (PHOTO / XINHUA) COPENHAGEN — Thousands of people gathered in Copenhagen on Sunday to protest a bill put forward by the government to scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defense...

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Pope Francis: Laws criminalizing LGBT are sin and injustice

February 6, 2023

Pope Francis arrives to address the media while aboard the plane from Juba to Rome on Feb 5, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said on Sunday that laws criminalizing LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with...

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Eight killed in mass shooting at birthday party in South Africa

January 30, 2023

Members of the Forensic Pathology Services stand near their vehicles on the scene of a mass shooting in Gqeberha, South Africa, on Jan 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JOHANNESBURG – Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, police said,...

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EU eyes repatriating more people to Africa, Middle East, Asia

January 26, 2023

In this Oct 30, 2022 photo, a boy fishes as police border guards on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey, on Sunday. The EU ministers recently discussed visa restrictions to repatriate more migrants non-eligible for asylum. (PHOTO / AP) STOCKHOLM...

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Peru arrests 200 in Lima; Machu Picchu ordered closed

January 22, 2023

People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center - DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan 21, 2023. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) LIMA - Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus...

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Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from security after rampage

January 13, 2023

Federal Interventor Ricardo Cappelli (center) inspects military troops as they wait for a protest announced by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan 11, 2023. (GUSTAVO MORENO / AP) BRASILIA – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were...

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Prince Harry hits out at press over reports of Afghan killings

January 12, 2023

Pedestrians pass a display in the window of a book shop in London, Jan 10, 2023. (KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP) LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has hit back at "hurtful" responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the "lie" he had boasted that he had killed...

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Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station

January 9, 2023

Nigerian Railway Corporation personnel are seen on a platform as a train speeds by at the Idu Railway Station during the resumption of Abuja-Kaduna train railway operations in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Dec 5, 2022. (KOLA SULAIMON / AFP) YENAGOA, NIGERIA - Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more...

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Puerto Rico independence vote bill passes US House

December 16, 2022

In this Feb 9, 2022 photo, a person holds a Puerto Rican flag in front of the Capitol building during a protest of teachers demanding salary increases and better working conditions, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (RICARDO ARDUENGO / REUTERS) W;ASHINGTON - Puerto Rico's movement for greater self-government got a...

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Migrant boat sinks off English coast, at least 3 deaths reported

December 14, 2022

In this Oct 12, 2022 file photo, migrants sail after boarding a smuggler's boat on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France, in an attempt to cross the English Channel. (SAMEER Al-DOUMY / AFP) LONDON - A small boat carrying around 40 migrants has sunk off the southeastern coast...

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Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens

December 14, 2022

Buulaay Ibrahim (left), 75, an internally displaced person who fled her village due to an increase in violence, sits at Limaan Camp in Mogadishu on Dec 6, 2022 in front of her makeshift tent. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU - More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages...

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UN seeks $51.5b for ‘shockingly high’ humanitarian aid needs

December 2, 2022

A girl watches as Afghan burqa-clad health workers administer polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Bihsud district of Nangarhar province on October 17, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) GENEVA / NEW YORK - The United Nations and partners on Thursday appealed for a record $51.5 billion in...

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Zimbabwean top official warns of COVID-19 resurgence

November 17, 2022

A man is tested for COVID-19 at a private health center in Harare, Zimbabwe, Feb 3, 2022. (TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI / AP) HARARE / MOSCOW / OTTAWA - Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response chief coordinator, Agnes Mahomva, has warned that the country is not yet out of danger of a resurgence of the...

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Climate justice gets harder as world population passes 8 billion

November 15, 2022

In this photograph taken on October 31, 2022, people walk through a crowded commercial street in Chennai. India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still. (ARUN SANKAR /...

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Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus

November 13, 2022

A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept 20, 2022. (JEROME DELAY / FILE / AP) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia - one of more than...

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Nineteen dead in Egypt after bus falls into canal

November 13, 2022

People walk past a damaged minibus that was pulled out of a water canal following a crash in al-Dayris village near the Nile Delta city of Mansoura in the Dakahlia governorate, some 120Km north of the capital, on Nov 12, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP) CAIRO - Nineteen people were...

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Nineteen dead in Egypt after bus falls into canal, health ministry says

November 13, 2022

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Venezuela blasts EU’s decision to renew sanctions

November 13, 2022

The shadows of synthetic macaws are cast on the pavement backdropped by a mural of a macaw as pedestrians wearing protective face masks walk past, in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, June 5, 2020.(ARIANA CUBILLOS / AP) CARACAS - The Venezuelan government on Saturday lambasted the decision of the...