Yemen official says 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding

Yemen official says 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thirty people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in Yemen’s southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains, the governor said Wednesday. Hodeidah Gov. Mugammad Qahim told Houthi-controlled Masirah TV that the floods displaced people from 500 houses. Five people also went missing, Qahim said. Hodeidah, the

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UN health agency convening experts meeting to decide if mpox outbreak in Africa is global emergency

UN health agency convening experts meeting to decide if mpox outbreak in Africa is global emergency

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency. At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that given the increasing spread of mpox

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Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid

Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Carles Puigdemont , the former leader of Catalonia who fled Spain after organizing an illegal independence referendum in the wealthy Spanish region nearly seven years ago, announced that he plans to return home on Thursday despite the likelihood he will be arrested. Puigdemont, 61, who fled to Belgium after the breakaway

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Lutovac o 100 dana rada Vlade: Nastavak pogubne politike na svim poljima

Lutovac o 100 dana rada Vlade: Nastavak pogubne politike na svim poljima

Politika | 07.08.2024 | access_time 10:05 Predsednik Demokratske stranke (DS) Zoran Lutovac ocenio je danas kao “nastavak pogubne politike na svim poljima”, prvih 100 dana rada vlade Srbije premijera Miloša Vučevića. Poslanici Skupštine Srbije su 2. maja izabrali novu vladu, na čijem je čelu predsednik Srpske napredne stranke (SNS) Vučević, a čijih 100 rada se

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