CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi.The urgent vaccination campaign has started in Malawi where drops of the inoculation are being placed in the mouths…Continue Reading
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday, in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin’s most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible.A judge also ruled…Continue Reading
MOSCOW — Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov says he wants to auction off his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees.Muratov called Tuesday in the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which he edits, for people to “share with refugees, the wounded and children who need urgent treatment what is dear to you and…Continue Reading
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on Monday welcomed the announcement by the United States that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide.As news of the announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spread across the sprawling camps in Cox’s Bazar district that are…Continue Reading
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol.Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north. Intensified artillery fire…Continue Reading
Miami Beach officials declared a state of emergency following a spate of spring break-related shootings. The state of emergency and curfew will start on Thursday, announced Miami Beach City manager Alina T. Hudak on Monday. Mayor Dan Gelber made the official announcement outside Miami Beach City Hall. “If you want to see what a very frustrated and angry…Continue Reading
The British government said it remains “confident” that sanctions will have a “significant impact” on Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov despite his alleged attempt to put his assets beyond the reach of the law. Media reports said on Tuesday that Usmanov may have put many of the UK properties and assets he owned out of the…Continue Reading
Commentary PITTSBURGH—Evelyn Wade was standing in a line with her friends, Sandra Owen and Janet Mundy. The queue not only filled the long hallway of the Allegheny Elks Club lobby but went out the door and down the steps. It then stretched around the city block of Cedar Avenue. Wade is a regular at the…Continue Reading
Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard appears via video feed near a screen of Ontario prosecutor Neville Golwalla in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in this courtroom sketch Jan. 6, 2022. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg) Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is set to be extradited to the United States to faces sex-related charges there, but only once his criminal case…Continue Reading
Updated: March 22, 2022 at 10:08 AM Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during the second day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI Jackson testifies. On the first day of questioning, she dismissed republican accusations of being light on lenient on…Continue Reading
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