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Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea
DAKAR, Senegal | Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another African nation that signed a third-country deporation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said […]
Denmark’s prime minister blasts unsolicited beauty advice from plastic surgeon on Instagram
COPENHAGEN, Denmark | Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is fed up with getting unsolicited beauty advice. The 48-year-old wrote Monday on Instagram that she had just returned back home from a trip to Ukraine, where she was exposed to air raid sirens in the ongoing war, only to find a message by a plastic surgeon […]
Pete Buttigieg returns to South Carolina as he weighs another White House run
ORANGEBURG, S.C. | The last time Pete Buttigieg was giving a political speech in South Carolina, it was to mark a distant finish in the state’s primary that effectively ended his campaign for president. Returning this weekend as he mulls a second run for the White House, Buttigieg set out to reintroduce himself to the […]
Iran warns of a harsh response to anticipated US sanctions and other Middle East news
Iran warned that U.S. sanctions set to be announced Monday would not bring peace to the region. Meanwhile, Israeli and Syrian officials met less than a week after Israeli strikes in Syria. And Israel said it killed a Hamas commander in Gaza. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the […]
Iran’s rial currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran | Iran’s currency hit a record low Monday as Washington prepared to announce new sanctions it said would add further pressure on an economy already battered by previous sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade. The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. Iran’s official Central […]
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’
NEW YORK | In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat climate change. Scientists have long warned that the world will […]
US and Canada fall deeper into a trade war with new tariffs as talks collapse and blame is spread
TORONTO | The United States and Canada, historic allies along an undefended border, fell deeper into a trade war Saturday marked by angry recriminations and new tariffs that are expected to raise prices for products in both countries. Each side blamed the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington late Friday, leading the U.S. […]
Bessent says US ‘D-Day’ economic sanctions aim to block all sources of revenue for Iran
WASHINGTON | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new round of sanctions aimed at Iran on Monday and warned every country that does business with the Islamic Republic to sever those financial ties or face retaliation from the United States. The new warnings to further cut off Iran from the rest of the world economy […]
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In Benin, malnutrition and misinformed views contribute to widespread stunting in children
N’DALI, Benin | Sabi Bera Zakari didn’t appear to care much how tall his children would grow. The farmer said he only sometimes wished they could gain more weight. “For me, height is not a problem,” Zakari said. “It’s mainly their weight that sometimes worries me.” Aboudou Salamatou, the farmer’s wife, seemed to disagree, as […]