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Omicron: More Travel Misery as Nearly 6,000 Flights Cancelled on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day

Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 5,900 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19…

3 years ago

South African Anti-Apartheid Campaigner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dies Aged 90

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, has died aged…

3 years ago

Nigeria Destroys More Than 1 Million Expired Covid Vaccines

Nigeria has destroyed more than a million doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines in a bid to assure a wary public…

3 years ago

China Orders Lockdown of up to 13 Million People in Xi’an

China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of…

3 years ago

WHO Warns World Cannot ‘Boost Its Way Out’ of Pandemic

The World Health Organization chief has warned that the rush in wealthy countries to roll out additional COVID vaccine doses…

3 years ago

Pfizer Pill Becomes 1st US-Authorized Home Covid Treatment

U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to…

3 years ago

Pillar of Shame: Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square Statue Removed

A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed. The statue showed…

3 years ago

Nigeria: Dozens Killed, More Wounded in ‘Barbaric, Senseless’ Violence in Nasarawa, Presidency Confirms

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa…

3 years ago

South African Court Allows Zuma to Appeal Return-to-Jail Order

A South African court has allowed former President Jacob Zuma to appeal a ruling that ordered him back to jail…

3 years ago

Ghana MPs Brawl in Parliament Over Mobile Money Tax

A brawl has broken out in Ghana's parliament during a late-night session over a contentious government-proposed levy on electronic transactions.…

3 years ago