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Mali woman has given birth to nine babies, says health ministry | Mali
A woman in Mali has given birth to nine babies – two more than doctors had detected inside her womb – according to the country’s health ministry, joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.Halima Cisse, 25, had been expected to…
France to sell Egypt 30 fighter jets in $4.5 bln deal -Egyptian defense
Egypt has signed a contract with France to buy 30 Rafale fighter jets, its defence ministry said in a statement early on Tuesday, in a deal that investigative website Disclose said on Monday was worth 3.75 billion euro ($4.5…
India Covid-19: The hospital in New Delhi so bad patients want to get out
Four hospitals turned away Patel, who is seven months pregnant with the couple's first child, before she finally found one that would take him. But the level of care at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital, a makeshift pandemic…
3 hurt, 2 seriously in West Bank drive-by shooting; IDF searching for terrorists
Three 19-year-old yeshiva students were injured, two of them seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop in the northern West Bank on Sunday evening, Israeli authorities said. The shots were fired from a passing car at the…
Venezuela transfers 6 jailed American oil execs to house arrest as Biden weighs
Venezuela transferred six American oil executives to house arrest on Friday as the Biden administration mulled the next steps in its relationship with Nicolas Maduro’s socialist regime.The executives -- Tomeu Vadell, Jose Luis Zambrano,…
Singapore warns of ‘tougher action’ if infections spread wider
Singapore urged its people to reduce social interactions and warned of tougher action on Friday if coronavirus infections rise further, a day after reporting its highest number of domestically transmitted cases in about seven months.It…
Alexey Navalny “just a horrible skeleton” in 1st court appearance since prison
Moscow — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny appeared in court on Thursday for the first time in months, and he looked worse for the wear. Attending a hearing in a Moscow court via video link from a prison compound dozens of…
2 dead, 16 injured in stabbing at kindergarten in southern China
A 24-year-old suspect has been detained by police.April 28, 2021, 10:22 PM• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleA knife-wielding man broke into a school in southern China on Wednesday and killing two children and…
Quake of magnitude 6 strikes India’s Assam, damages some buildings
An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck India's rugged northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, causing cracks in the walls and floors of some structures, but no immediate casualties were reported.The quake hit at a depth of 34 km (21…
Coronavirus cases and deaths in India are going unreported, experts say
But the real number, experts fear, could be up to 30 times higher -- meaning more than half a billion cases.Health workers and scientists in India have long warned that Covid-19 infections and related deaths are significantly…