Month: June 2022

Authorities in northeastern Brazil’s Pernambuco state said Monday that 91 deaths have been confirmed from flooding over the weekend, with more two dozen people still missing. Hundreds of state and federal rescue workers were searching for 26 people currently unaccounted for, according to the official statement. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Monday said the current monkeypox outbreak outside Africa is ”unlikely” to lead to a pandemic. The organisation, however, emphasised that it still remains unclear if infected patients who are asymptomatic can transmit the disease. WHO’s Dr Rosamund Lewis said there are still many unknowns about […]

France on Monday called for an investigation after a French journalist was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was travelling in, which was being used to evacuate civilians near the city of Sievierodonetsk, was hit by shelling. “France demands that a probe be carried out as soon as possible […]

Around 100 people were killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in north Chad on May 23 and May 24, Defence Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim said on Monday. The violence broke out during the night at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, near the border […]

Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns. The new legislation, which resurrects some measures that were shelved last year […]