PORTO-NOVO, Benin – For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
CAIRO (AP) — Adel Omran, a video producer in chaos-stricken Libya for The Associated Press, has died. He was 46.Omran died at his family home in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Port Said early Friday after suffering a heart attack, his family said.Before joining the AP more than a decade ...
BANGKOK (AP) – Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive the country’s strict zero-COVID measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, died on Friday. He was 60.<span class="print_trim">An announcement from China’s Center for ...
BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/li-keqiang">Li Keqiang</a>, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.<a ...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion.The third Israeli raid since the war began ...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage and lack of ...
