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Sudan enters new era  for girl rights with criminalization FGM The United Nations Childen’s Fund (UNICEF) welcomed the landmark move by Sudan’s transitional government this week to criminalize female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), with a three-year jail sentence for offenders. “This practice is not only a violation of every girl child’s rights, it is harmful and […]

In this file photo taken on March 27, 2020 shows prison inmates sleeping and gesturing in cramped conditions in the crowded courtyard of the Quezon City jail in Manila. Nearly 10,000 prison inmates have been released in the Philippines as the country races to halt coronavirus infections in its overcrowded jails, a Supreme Court official […]

Overall, 1,280 people have been killed by the virus so far in Russia.Valery Sharifulin / TASS Russia confirmed 10,633 new coronavirus infections Sunday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 134,687 and marking a new one-day record increase. Russia is now the seventh most-affected country in terms of infections, having surpassed China, Turkey and Iran last […]

Doctors conduct a surgery on a patient of COVID-19 in critical condition at a hospital in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, March 21, 2020. Doctors from Beijing, Jiangsu and other four different provinces have successfully completed the three-hour surgery on a male patient of COVID-19 in critical condition with joint efforts. (Photo by Ke Hao/Xinhua) […]

Turkish soldiers stand in front of a donation of medical supplies from Turkey to Somalia, Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, May 2, 2020. (AA Photo)  Turkey on Saturday sent a shipment of medical supplies, including new Turkish-made ventilators, to Somalia to help the Horn of Africa country combat the coronavirus outbreak. The ventilators, made through recent technological […]

Several gunshots from North Korea hit a South Korean guard post inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Sunday, prompting the South to fire back, but the North’s firings do not appear to have been intentional, an official said. South Korean soldiers on guard duty at the unit in the central border town of Cheorwon heard […]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during Saturday’s press conference.EFE On the day that confinement measures in Spain were lifted to allow citizens out for exercise, after 48 days of confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made a televised address on Saturday afternoon from La Moncloa palace. Among the announcements that […]

Trump listens during an event with Gilead Sciences at the White House, May 1, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorisation to Gilead Sciences for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19, the agency and President Donald Trump said on Friday […]

Shoppers walk through NorthPark Center mall on Friday, May 1, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. (The Dallas Morning News via AP)  More than a dozen states let restaurants, stores or other businesses reopen Friday in the biggest one-day push yet to get their economies up and running again, acting at their own speed and with their […]

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh (R) meets with Chinese Ambassador to Tunisia Wang Wenbin in Tunis, Tunisia, April 30, 2020. Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh on Thursday said his country is grateful to China for its support in Tunisia’s fight against COVID-19. (Tunisian Prime Minister Office/Handout via Xinhua) TUNIS, May 1 (Xinhua) — Tunisian Prime […]