WINDHOEK, Nambia -- The Namibian government is taking a proactive stance to protect and sustain its dwindling lion population in the northwestern part of the country, an official said on Monday. Uakendisa Muzuma, an official with the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, told Xinhua in an...
TOKYO, Japan - Four people were injured after a suspected gas explosion at a bar caused a fire on Monday afternoon near Shimbashi in downtown Tokyo of Japan. The explosion was reported at around 3:15 p.m. local time as a fire broke out in an eight-story building near the centrally located JR...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - A total of 15 people, including a baby and a toddler, died in an accident involving a minibus taxi and a heavy-duty truck in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa on Sunday evening, local media reported on Monday. According to Unathi Binqose, provincial transport...
DISPERSAL -- Demonstrators run as French police officers use tear gas in Paris on July 2, 2023, five days after a 17-year-old man was killed by police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. French police arrested 1311 people nationwide during a fourth consecutive night of rioting over...
WASHINGTON, United States --Â US President Joe Biden will host Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson next week to talk about transatlantic security cooperation and the war in Ukraine, the White House said Saturday. USÂ President Joe Biden (left) and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson...
SAN PEDRO HUAMELULA, Mexico --Â As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people. KISSÂ THE BRIDE -- Victor Hugo Sosa, Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, kisses...
WASHINGTON– The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration's plan to forgive student debt for millions of borrowers. In a 6-to-3 decision along ideological lines, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration's arguments that the plan was...
KERICHO, Kenya, June 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 45 people were killed and several others injured in a road accident along a busy highway in western Kenya on Friday evening, the police confirmed. Tom Odero, Rift Valley Regional police commander, said the 6:30 p.m. accident occurred after the driver of a...
NEW DELHI– At least two people were killed and five others injured Friday after a solvent reactor exploded at a pharmaceutical company in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said. The explosion took place at the Sahiti Pharma Company in the Achutapuram Pharma Special...
KIGALI– The number of obese people in Rwanda has increased from 14 percent in 2013 to 18.6 percent in 2022, according to the latest government survey released Friday. This is contained in findings from the second Rwanda Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Risk Factors Survey, released by the...
NEW DELHI, India -- At least seven people, including five women and a child, died and 12 others sustained severe injuries in a road accident in India's southern state of Karnataka on Friday, confirmed a local police officer over the phone. Â Â Â The mishap occurred when a heavy vehicle...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday condemned the Quran-burning in Sweden, according to the official news agency IRNA. Â Â Â In an address to worshippers in the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman, he said the desecration insulted the "most valuable divine book" and...
