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Nigeria Marks 6th Year of Missing Chibok Girls Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
ABUJA - Nigerian activists are marking six years since Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok and kept 112 in captivity. This year, a live broadcast by the Bring Back Our Girls movement is helping to mark the...
Locusts, COVID-19 Combination Pose Dire Threat to East Africa
Officials with the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) say a resurgence of locusts – which devastated crops in parts of Africa earlier this year – is beginning to hit rural parts of East Africa. Early this year, one of the biggest locust...
US Now World Leader in Coronavirus Deaths
The United States became the world leader in coronavirus deaths Saturday, a grim indicator of the country’s status as the global epicenter of the pandemic. As of Saturday afternoon, the U.S. had recorded about 519,400 COVID-19 cases and 20,071...
1,000 Boko Haram Fighters Killed in Raid, Chad Army Reports
Chadian army officials report military forces have killed about 1,000 Boko Haram extremists in an operation on the islands of Lake Chad. In a video statement released late Thursday, Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermandoa said the eight-day operation...
Saudi-Led Coalition Adopts Coronavirus Cease-Fire in Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen for five years declared a two-week cease-fire starting Thursday in response to United Nations calls for peace as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic. After making his...
Virus Alters Holy Week Celebration Worldwide, But Not the Spirit
For Pope Francis at the Vatican, and for Christians worldwide from churches large and small, this will be an Easter like none other: The joyous message of Jesus Christ's resurrection will be delivered to empty pews. Worries about the coronavirus...
New Coronavirus Limits Bring New Religious Freedom Tension
NEW YORK - Despite state and local limits on public gatherings, some faith leaders have persisted in holding in-person services -- a matter of religious freedom, they say, as the United States approached its fourth Sunday battling the coronavirus...
New York State Surpasses 100,000 Coronavirus Cases
NEW YORK - Forty percent of all U.S. coronavirus cases are concentrated in New York state, where the death toll hit a new single-day high of 562 on Friday. "You have more deaths, you have more people coming into hospitals than any other night,"...
WHO Chief: Coronavirus Pandemic 'More than a Health Crisis'
The head of the World Health Organization said Friday the coronavirus pandemic has sparked a global crisis that is causing an array of problems beyond rising infections and mounting death tolls. "We know this is much more than a health crisis,"...
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 50,000
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 50,000 on Thursday. The number of deaths continued to soar in Italy, Spain and the United States, where hundreds of new fatalities were recorded. Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. said...