March 11, 2021 Top US diplomat Blinken demands change in Ethiopia's Tigray Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Eritrean forces in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region must withdraw, saying the situation is unacceptable and must change.
March 5, 2021 Who is NASA astronaut Kate Rubins? NASA flight engineer Kathleen "Kate" Rubins set out on her fourth career spacewalk on Friday, in an effort to ready the International Space Station (ISS) for solar array upgrades.
March 4, 2021 CDC to require US-bound travelers from Ebola-stricken countries to give contact information The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that travelers from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United States will be required to give contact information because of two separate Ebola outbreaks in the countries.
March 2, 2021 COVID-19 pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year.
March 1, 2021 US to screen travelers from countries with Ebola cases: CDC The United States will soon begin screening travelers who come from countries with cases of Ebola, an often deadly virus that causes severe bleeding and organ failure.Â
February 28, 2021 US 'gravely concerned' by Ethiopia massacre of 'many hundreds' described in Amnesty report The local government alleged the Amnesty report relied on "scanty information' in making its assertions.
February 24, 2021 Stevie Wonder tells Oprah he's leaving US for Ghana -- permanently "Heaven Help Us All" singer Stevie Wonder has announced that he plans to relocate to Ghana permanently.
February 22, 2021 Italian ambassador to Congo killed in attack on UN convoy The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday in an attack on a U.N. convoy in an area that is home to myriad rebel groups, the Foreign Ministry and local people said.
February 20, 2021 Blackwater founder Erik Prince accused of Libya weapons ban violations in UN report A United Nations report accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of assisting in violations of an international arms embargo on Libya, placing the military contractor at risk of U.N. sanctions, according to a diplomat with access to the report.
February 17, 2021 US Navy seizes large cache of smuggled weapons off Somalia The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of Somalia, it announced Tuesday, amid the grinding war in nearby Yemen.