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Surgeons at Dubai’s NMC Specialty Hospital have removed a tumor the size of a football from a man’s stomach in one of 2022’s biggest cancer surgeries at the hospital. Yusuf Miya Ismail Ustad, a 60-year-old Indian living in Abu Dhabi, had been suffering from abdominal pains for half a year before visiting a doctor in […]

The US may continue to reject migrant applications for asylum at the Mexican border on public health grounds, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. Authorities can send migrants back to Mexico and other countries until the court makes a final decision in the case. The justices said they would hear arguments in full in February, […]

With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remaining, the federal government on Tuesday declared they must stay on the endangered species list. The population of the species, one of three in the right whale family, continues to decline and “has not met many of the recovery criteria outlined,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

Ethiopian Airlines has announced resumption of flights to the capital of the war-torn northern region of Tigray starting on Wednesday, the first commercial flights to Tigray in about 18 months, the airline said in a statement. The announcement comes a day after a delegation of government officials and heads of public enterprises visited Mekelle to […]

Iraq’s premier summoned the central bank governor Tuesday amid worries sparked by a currency drop against the dollar, with lawmakers calling for an extraordinary session of parliament. One US dollar traded at 1,580 Iraqi dinars on the street Tuesday, against the central bank rate of 1,470 dinars, state news agency INA reported. The drop, which […]

The Taliban must immediately revoke their policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN rights chief insisted Tuesday, condemning their “terrible” consequences. “No country can develop — indeed survive — socially and economically with half its population excluded,” Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. “These unfathomable […]

Republican George Santos, who flipped a U.S. House seat in New York from blue to red, has admitted to making up key aspects of his educational, professional, and personal background. But he doesn’t call what he did lying. Santos gave interviews to the New York Post and 77 WABC radio. The Republican who won the […]

The government communication service has said a delegation from the Ethiopian federal government is on its way to the northern region of Tigray to oversee the implementation of last month’s peace agreement. This is the first high-level federal delegation that has travelled to Tigray in two years, the government said on Monday. Tagesse Chafo, the […]

Saudi Arabia and Japan signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on Sunday in the fields of the circular carbon economy, carbon recycling, clean hydrogen and fuel ammonia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said on Twitter. The MoC was signed by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Japanese Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who is visiting […]

Ukraine is planning to call for Russia to be removed as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. “Tomorrow we will officially express our position. We have a very simple question: Does Russia have the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security […]

Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed nearly three dozen people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses. The scope of the storm […]

Brazilian soccer legend Pele’s family members gathered at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo on Saturday, where the 82-year-old, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, has been since late November. Doctors said this week that Pele’s cancer had advanced and that he requires care related to renal and cardiac dysfunction. […]

Top officials from the United Nations and dozens of NGOs operating in Afghanistan are meeting Sunday to discuss the way ahead after the Taliban authorities ordered all NGOs to stop women employees from working, aid officials said. Taliban on Saturday threatened to suspend the operating licenses of NGOs if they failed to implement the order. […]

Five people were reportedly injured after a small fire on a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday. The JetBlue plane, which had 167 people onboard, was evacuated by the Port Authority. According to the FDNY, five civilians reportedly sustained minor injuries. The fire is said to be under control.

The M23 rebel group, who have seized swaths of territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have pledged to retreat from a strategic front-line position. In a statement on Friday, the rebels announced that it would withdraw from its position in the town of Kibumba – about 20 kilometres (12 miles) […]

Germany’s government is suspending state measures designed to foster business with Iran due to the repression of nationwide protests in the Islamic Republic, the economy ministry said on Friday. The suspension will affect export credits and investment guarantees as well as Germany’s manager training and trade fair programs in Iran, the ministry said. German-Iranian trade […]

A housefire killed two children on Staten Island and left two others in critical condition on Friday morning. The two children were killed and two more were left in critical condition Friday after a house fire in Staten Island, according to officials. The fire broke out just before 10:20 a.m. inside a house located on […]

Heavy rain has caused major flooding across parts of New York City, as temperatures are set to plummet into Saturday. Gusty winds are also expected to continue into the evening. Showers lingered into Friday afternoon before temperatures plummeted in the evening, dropping from highs in the upper-50s to lows in the mid-teens. New York City […]

Burkina Faso’s military government in a statement on Friday has ordered senior United Nations official Barbara Manzi to leave the country immediately, without giving a reason. When contacted, a government spokesperson did not immediately say why it had labeled Manzi, the U.N.’s resident coordinator in Burkina Faso, as “persona non grata” and demanded that she […]

Thousands of ambulance workers in Britain began a one-day strike on Wednesday, with unions and the government swapping accusations of blame for putting lives at risk. The government advised people not to play contact sports, take unnecessary car trips or get drunk in order to reduce their risk of needing an ambulance, as paramedics, call-handlers […]