Month: October 2019

Scores of senior doctors in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals have threatened to strike starting Thursday, if the government fails to meet their demand for better salaries and working conditions. They would join hundreds of their junior counterparts, who’ve been on strike since September 3 for the…

The sloth - a super slow tree dweller that spends most of its life hanging upside down - isn't on an endangered species list.  But human activity hasn't  been kind to the popular creature who lives in the tropical rain forests of Central and South…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has acknowledged he was on the telephone call that triggered the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. “I was on the phone call,” Pompeo confirmed Tuesday at a news conference in Rome, without offering details about what was said…

Malaysian singer-songwriter, Yuna fourth album “Rouge” was released this summer. The album has a pop and R&B feel because she wanted to bring back the feel of old records -- old vinyl. She is best known for the collaboration with Usher on her breakout single,…

In Hong Kong there are growing concerns the government is condoning the excessive use of force against pro-democracy demonstrators after police shot a student protester on Tuesday. More than 100 people were injured during Tuesday's mass demonstrations in Hong Kong. Police fired water cannons and…

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's bid to dismiss lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah.   U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan's written decisions issued Monday night means the legal challenges seeking to…

Ukraine's president said Tuesday that no one explained to him why millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to his country was delayed, shrugging off suggestions that President Donald Trump froze the funding to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

A strike by the United Auto Workers union has caused a parts shortage, forcing General Motors to shut down its pickup truck and transmission factories in Silao, Mexico. Spokesman Dan Flores confirmed that production at the factories ended Tuesday morning, affecting 6,000 workers. The plant…

Ugandan's pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine has denounced the government's banning of civilian use of red berets, a symbol of his "People Power" movement that he hopes to use to oust longtime President Yoweri Museveni. The government this month gazetted the red beret…

U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Australia's prime minister to help discredit special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the New York Times is reporting. The Times reported Monday that during a recent telephone call, Trump asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help U.S. Attorney General William…

The Irishman set to take over as the European Union's top trade official on Monday urged the United States not to launch an economically damaging tariff war with the bloc over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing. The World Trade Organization ruled in May that Europe…