NAIROBI, Kenya- The independent Committee to Protect Journalists and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission have condemned a swathe of arrests of journalists, including some sympathetic to the Amhara ethnic group. In a statement the CPJ said "at least eight journalists" had been arrested since April...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Three Sudanese civilians were killed Saturday as fighting raged between the regular army and paramilitaries in Khartoum and other cities, the doctors' union said. In a statement on Facebook, the medics said "two people were killed in Khartoum airport" and another person was killed...
HANOI, Vietnam- The United States and Vietnam said Saturday they hoped to upgrade diplomatic ties, days after a flare-up in tensions with China over Taiwan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, passing through Hanoi on his way to a Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' meeting in Japan, met...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Sudan's paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed Saturday that his fighters will keep on fighting until "all army bases are captured." "We will not stop fighting until we capture all the army bases and the honourable members of the armed forces join us," Daglo told Al...
WASHINGTON, United States- Violent clashes in Sudan between the army and paramilitary groups must end "immediately," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. The top US diplomat said he was "deeply concerned" about the reports of fighting. He said US embassy staff in the capital Khartoum...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro Friday to face questioning by police over his supporters' invasion of the presidential palace, Congress and high court on January 8. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Bolsonaro had to appear before federal police...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Thousands of people demonstrated Friday across Iran and several Arab countries to mark Jerusalem Day in support of the Palestinian cause, amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recent weeks have seen deadly attacks and clashes in Israel, annexed east Jerusalem...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Dutch government on Friday gave euthanasia for children under 12 the green light, permitting mercy deaths for young minors suffering "unbearably and without hope". Children over 12 can already ask for euthanasia, with mandatory parental consent until they reach 16. It...
BEIJING, China -- China and Brazil on Friday called on developed countries to honour their climate finance pledges, after their leaders put their close economic and diplomatic ties on full display at a meeting in Beijing. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has used his visit to push the...
MOTRIL, Spain -- A 50-year-old Spanish mountain climber emerged Friday from an underground cave where she spent 500 days in seclusion as part of an experiment on the effects of isolation on the human body. Wearing dark sunglasses, Beatriz Flamini smiled and embraced family members who had gathered...
TOKYO, Japan --Â Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resumed campaigning on Saturday after being evacuated unharmed from the scene of an apparent "smoke bomb" blast. The incident in western Japan's Wakayama came less than a year after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, which...
An official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that person-to-person transmission of H3N8 avian influenza is “extremely rare.” WHO Western Pacific Region Emergency Director Dr. Babatunde Olowokure made the statement after three cases of H3N8 avian influenza were detected in China,...
