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March 30, 2021

Suez Canal ship blockage under investigation

Experts are looking into how a colossal cargo ship became wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal, where the vessel blocked traffic and disrupted billions of dollars in international trade for nearly a week.

March 29, 2021

Suez Canal ship's crew celebrates on video after Ever Given is freed

Delightful video shows the cheers and happiness of a salvage team that helped free a colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal.

March 29, 2021

Sarah Obama, former president's step-grandmother, dead in Kenya hospital

Former President Barack Obama's step-grandmother died at around 4 a.m. local time in Kenya's third largest city, Kisumu, on Monday.

March 26, 2021

Navy sending team to Suez Canal to help dig out massive ship blocking passage

The U.S. Navy will assist the Egyptian government in the operation to dig out a giant container ship currently stuck sideways in the Suez Canal.  

March 26, 2021

Maritime traffic jam grows outside blocked Suez Canal

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping.

March 26, 2021

Dozens killed in horrific Egypt train crash

At least 32 people were killed when two trains collided in Egypt on Friday, the health ministry said — with dramatic footage of the aftermath showing people screaming and covered in soot in an overturned car.

March 19, 2021

Zoos, scientists aim to protect animals from people spreading coronavirus

The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorillas became the first apes known to test positive for the coronavirus.

March 17, 2021

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died at 61

President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old.

March 16, 2021

Ebola may have lingered in a survivor for 5 years before sparking new outbreak

A person who survived the major Ebola outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 may have harbored the virus for five years before it hopped to another person and triggered the current outbreak in Guinea, according to a new analysis.

March 13, 2021

U.S. will not resume assistance to Ethiopia for most security programs

The State Department on Friday said Washington has decided not to lift the pause in assistance to Ethiopia for most programs in the security sector, days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described acts in Tigray as ethnic cleansing.