BUNIA, Congo (AP) — At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo, authorities said. Attacks on health workers from angry residents, skepticism among some locals and armed conflict in hot spots continue to challenge efforts to stop the spread. Out…
BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, history’s second-biggest with more than 3,400 reported cases and over 2,200 deaths. It was stopped with the…
Tuesday, 9 June 2026 05:05 ? Follow Trump100 on your podcast app ? The World Cup is days away. Instead of a party atmosphere, we have players detained, fans from certain countries banned and a referee denied entry into the US. Is Donald Trump’s America ruining the world’s biggest sporting event?…
Iran on Monday quoted legendary English playwright William Shakespeare to slam US treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s claim that Washington had seized roughly $1 billion in Tehran’s cryptocurrency holdings amid ongoing tensions in West Asia. The new US action comes amid ongoing indirect talks between Tehran and Washington, mediated by Pakistan. (AFP File) Iran’s foreign ministry…
Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from US President Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting’”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon.The wave of attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel…
June 9 (Reuters) – Three people were killed in a Russian attack on the town of Chuhuiv in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday, with emergency services working to extinguish a fire. Two men, one 70 years old and one 50, and a 70-year-old woman…
GENEVA, June 8 (Reuters) – Spending on nuclear weapons by the world’s nine nuclear-armed states rose by almost a fifth in 2025 to $119 billion, a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Tuesday. The 19% increase from 2024 produced the highest expenditure on nuclear weapons since the campaign group began…
Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry into the United States after getting selected to officiate in the World Cup. U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed Monday that a Somali national who was planning to referee in the World Cup had been denied entry after arriving to Miami International Airport from Istanbul on Saturday….
new video loaded: Iran and Israel Move to De-Escalate After Hours of Fighting 0:54 Iran and Israel signaled that they would move to de-escalate military hostilities after exchanging strikes for the first time since April. By Axel Boada June 8, 2026 0 Iran Fires Missiles at Israel for First Time Since April 0:32 Israel Trades…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck oil facilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials said on Monday, as part of their campaign aimed at making Moscow pay an economic cost for the war. Separately, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that Roman Abramovich acted as a go-between for messages between Kyiv…