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WHO requests China monitor COVID mortality as nation reports apparent surge in deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from COVID-19 to gain a ...

Economic woes, war, climate change on tap for Davos meeting-
By Associated Press DAVOS: The World Economic Forum is back with its first winter meetup since 2020 in the Swiss ...

Senegal road crash leaves 19 dead, dozens injured
A bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a truck, killing at least 19 people and injuring ...

Islamic extremists claim responsibility for church bombing in Congo that killed 14, wounded 63 others
Islamic extremists claimed responsibility for a bombing of a church in eastern Congo as authorities said Monday that the toll ...

Church bombing in suspected extremist attack kills 10 in eastern Congo, army says
A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three ...

South African tiger injures man, kills dog after escaping from its enclosure
Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a private farm near Johannesburg ...

50 women abducted by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso
At least 50 women were abducted by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region last week, a local official ...

Paris prepares Eiffel Tower tribute to Mahsa Amini as protests continue
Some 5,000 people marched Monday to the EU parliament in the French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government ...

Co-pilot in Nepal plane crash disaster met same fate as her husband who crashed 17 years earlier
The co-pilot in Sunday’s deadly plane crash in Nepal suffered the same fate as her husband, who died while co-piloting ...

Former British PM Boris Johnson bags lucrative deal for tell-all memoir-
By AFP He’s long been labouring to complete a promised biography of William Shakespeare, but now Boris Johnson is turning ...