Haiti’s National Police managed to kill four suspects and arrest two others they said were involved in the well-coordinated assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Law enforcement officials in the country say a gunfight between police and additional suspects is ongoing as of early Thursday. Léon Charles, the country’s top cop, told …
Read More »WHO chief warns 'variants are currently winning the race against vaccines' as Delta spreads
On the same day that the world reached the grim milestone of 4 million infectious-disease deaths, world-health-organization” target=”_blank”>World Health Organization<. “Variants are currently winning the race against vaccines because of inequitable vaccine production and distribution,” Ghebreyesus said Wednesday at his biweekly conference in Geneva. “It didn’t have to be this …
Read More »Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port the scene of an explosion and fire
A disasters broke out following an explosion from within a shipping container anchored in world-regions Wednesday. Dubai’s media office said the fire was under control and port authorities will “take all necessary measures to ensure the normal movement of ships in the port.” The media office posted videos to Twitter …
Read More »Iran hosts high-level Afghan peace talks as fighting surges
Iran on Wednesday hosted the first significant talks in months between the Taliban and Afghan government representatives — a previously unannounced meeting that comes as the U.S. completes its withdrawal from conflictsand districts increasingly fall to the Taliban across the country. The high-level peace talks between the warring Afghan sides …
Read More »Two US soldiers injured in Iraq rocket attack
Two U.S. soldiers were injured during a rocket attack on Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq Wednesday, Army officials reported. A series of at least 14 rockets hit the Iraqi air base housing both U.S. and international forces, along with structures in the surrounding area. DRONE HITS IN VICINITY …
Read More »UK billionaire rips affirmative action, says BLM caused ‘more bigotry’
A British billionaire businessman has ripped affirmative action as being “dangerous for society” – and suggested that the Black Lives Matter movement may have created “more bigotry.” “I’m not very keen on unbalancing society by having quotas,” world-regions the founder of a U.K. chain of cellphone stores, Phones 4u, told …
Read More »Pope, recovering well, had 'severe' narrowing of his colon
pope-francis” target=”_blank”>Pope Francis<said Wednesday, as it revealed that final examinations showed he had suffered a “severe” narrowing of his colon. The pope-francis” target=”_blank”>Vatican’s< spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said the 84-year-old pope was continuing to eat regularly following Sunday’s surgery to remove half his colon, and that intravenous therapy had been suspended. …
Read More »Famed Dutch crime reporter shot in head
world-regions is reportedly clinging to life after getting shot on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday. De Vries, a celebrity in the world-regions known for exposing the criminal underworld, was blasted in the head shortly after leaving the studio of world-regions broadcaster RTL, police officials and the media network said. Three …
Read More »Iraq, Syria bases housing US troops attacked, 3 injured
BAGHDAD – U.S.-backed Syrian fighters and military” target=”_blank”>American troops<, the Syrian Democratic Forces said. In neighboring world-regions rockets hit a base housing U.S. troops, inflicting three minor injuries. The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition Col. Wayne Marotto said that at around 12:30 p.m. Al-Assad Air Base in western Iraq was …
Read More »Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home, official says
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated overnight at his private home, according to a top government official who called the attack an “inhumane and barbaric act.” In a statement released by interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who will take over as interim president, Moïse was killed by an unidentified group. …
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