SAO PAULO — Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, died Friday in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. She was 26.Mendonça’s press office confirmed her death in a statement and said four other passengers…
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UN Security Council Calls for End to Fighting in Ethiopia
The U.N. Security Council on Friday called for an end to fighting in Ethiopia and expressed serious concern about the intensifying conflict in the country’s northern Tigray region.In a statement approved by all 15 members, the council urged all parties…
Read moreWhy US Consumers Pay Such High Prices for Prescription Drugs
Congressional Democrats this week proposed an addition to U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate and social spending legislation that would allow Medicare, the federal government’s health care program for older Americans, to negotiate with drugmakers over …
Read moreHundreds March in Washington to Denounce Ethiopian Government on 1st Anniversary of Tigray Conflict
Hundreds of people marched in Washington on Thursday to denounce the Ethiopian government on the first anniversary of its deadly military conflict with forces in the country’s northern Tigray region.VOA estimated that several hundred people joined the …
Read moreA year since conflict erupted, nearly 7 million people still suffering in Northern Ethiopia as humanitarian catastrophe outpaces aid
One year since conflict broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, almost seven million people in Tigray and in neighboring Amhara and Afar are suffering from the toll of violence, human rights abuses, hunger, locusts, and the COVID-19 pandemic.With t…
Read moreSouth African Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
LONDON — South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favorite …
Read moreKenyan Animal Lobby Groups Campaign Against Chicken Caging
KAKAMEGA, KENYA — Animal welfare advocates in Kenya are campaigning against the battery cage system of poultry management for commercial purposes. The system has been banned in Europe out of concern for the birds’ welfare, but it is beginning to gain p…
Read moreFox scores ratings win as World Series viewership rebounds
Los Angeles, Nov. 3 (BNA): Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season.The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewe…
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