Free Party presidential candidate Xiomara Castro celebrates after general elections, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, November 28, 2021. Moises Castillo/AP Tegucigalpa — Honduras’s leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro was headed for election …
Scientists who first sequenced Omicron on what they are seeing “This is the Frankenstein of mutations,” Alex Sigal from the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, said. CBS …
U.S. to restrict travel from southern Africa Durban, South Africa — The Omicron variant of the coronavirus that was first detected in South Africa has now spread to at least …
U.S. restricts travel from several African countries to slow spread of new COVID variant Health officials are working to learn more about the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. Michael George speaks …
Egypt reopens ancient “Avenue of Sphinxes” Cairo — As Americans settled down to enjoy the time-honored tradition of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, almost 6,000 miles away, Egypt set out to …
Former envoy to Afghanistan on the fate of girls under Taliban Rome — National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation …
Sweden’s Prime Minister-elect Magdalena Andersson addresses a press conference after the budget vote in the Swedish parliament on November 24, 2021, shortly before she tendered her resignation just hours after …
Central Americans surveyed this year said scarce economic opportunities were the main reason that they wanted to leave their homelands and head to another country, including the U.S., according to …
Andrew Sullivan on separating politics and life Stockholm — The United States has joined an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time, the International IDEA think-tank said on …
WHO warns 500,000 Europeans could die from COVID by spring With various countries in Europe seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases, the World Health Organizagtion warns that as many as …