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Comment on this story Comment ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive on Monday amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said. It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of…

Comment on this story Comment After days of search-and-rescue efforts, Yeon-Su Kim, an American who had been lost at sea in the Gulf of California along with her husband, has been confirmed dead, the president of Northern Arizona University said in a statement Sunday. The statement added that the search…

Comment on this story Comment MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Mexico’s capital Sunday in a show of support for President Manuel López Obrador, who before assuming the presidency had led some of the country’s biggest protests. The “people’s march” marked four years in office for…

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — A landslide during a funeral ceremony in Cameroon’s capital on Sunday has left at least 14 people dead, the regional governor said. Dozens of others were missing as rescue crews dug through the rubble with flashlights. Centre Regional Gov. Naseri Paul Bea told the Cameroonian national broadcaster…

House Republicans, who will hold a slim majority in the next Congress, have warned the Biden administration to expect far tougher oversight of the extensive military assistance provided to Ukraine in the war with Russia, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky solidified his Grain From Ukraine initiative, announcing…

Comment on this story Comment Protests erupted in cities and on campuses across China as frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a rare wave of demonstrations against the government’s “zero covid” policy, as well as the ruling Communist Party’s enforcement of it. Residents in Shanghai, China’s most…

Comment on this story Comment France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a Paris-based consulting firm for allegedly failing to be “fun” enough at work was wrongfully dismissed. The man, referred to in court documents as Mr. T, was fired from Cubik Partners in 2015 after refusing…

Comment on this story Comment ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan said Saturday his party was quitting the country’s regional and national assemblies, as he made his first public appearance since being wounded in a gun attack earlier this month. Khan, a former cricket star turned politician, was ousted…