By Joe Lawlor Jireh Nyarushatsi, a senior at Casco Bay High School in Portland, headed into the Portland Expo on Tuesday for his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The 18-year-old said he was hesitant at first, but school nurse…
By Al Jazeera The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck’s…
By Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday reversed himself and said he would allow as many as 62,500 refugees to enter the United States during the next six months, eliminating the sharp limits that…
By David Malingha Somalia’s lower house of parliament has voted unanimously to restore an agreement reached last year that will allow the country to hold indirect elections. Last month, the parliament had voted to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s term by…
By Linah Alsaafin Dozens of Palestinians are facing imminent dispossession from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in what they say is a move to force them out and replace it entirely with a Jewish…
By Al Jazeera A Guantanamo Bay inmate alleges he was tortured by his American captors after the September 11 attacks and will file a complaint with the United Nations over his unending 19-year detention, his lawyer has said. Abu Zubaydah’s…
By John Psaropoulos Mytilene, Lesbos – Anis Alizai arrived in Lesbos with her parents and four siblings in December 2018. After sleeping rough for seven months in the olive groves around Moria camp, the Greek island’s main reception centre at the…
By Emmanuel Onyango A Kenyan doctor who became a vociferous opponent of the Covid-19 vaccine has succumbed to the virus, weeks after saying the jab was "totally unnecessary". Dr Stephen Karanja, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, advocated steam…
By Mary Wambui Kenya on Thursday rescheduled its planned closure of refugee camps to June next year, following discussions with the UN Refugee Agency to stagger the shut-down. As such Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee camps will be closed down by…
By Al Jazeera India’s total COVID-19 cases have passed 18 million after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking…