Senegal tightens anti-COVID controls after Mecca deaths

Dakar, Senegal — Senegal said Monday it had implemented voluntary COVID-19 screening tests and reimposed the wearing of masks at Dakar's international airport for returning pilgrims fearing the virus was linked to the deaths of some Mecca pilgrims

Ivory Coast sets up mobile enrollment for problematic health coverage program

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Health authorities in Ivory Coast launched mobile enrollment centers for the country's universal health coverage program, which has been criticized since its 2019 inception over difficulties accessing benefits

Thousands die every year in Kenya amid scarce snakebite treatments

MWINGI, Kenya — Esther Kangali felt a sharp pain while on her mother's farm in eastern Kenya

Conservation efforts bring Iberian lynx back from brink of extinction

MADRID — Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx

In South Africa, traditional healers join fight against HIV

BUSHBUCKRIDGE, South Africa — The walls of Shadrack Mashabane's hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small window the only source of light

China, France launch satellite to better understand universe

Xichang, China — A French-Chinese satellite blasted off Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant

US charity sends medical help to Ukraine’s frontline towns

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, U

Half a million Ukrainians in frontline city of Mykolaiv suffer through 3rd year without clean water

Going into a third year of war, life without clean water has become routine for nearly half a million residents of Ukraine’s frontline city of Mykolaiv

Indian toxic alcohol brew kills at least 34

Mumbai, India — A batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has killed at least 34 people with more than 100 others rushed to hospital, Tamil Nadu state officials told reporters Thursday

Abortion looms in US presidential election 2 years after key ruling

Two years ago this month, the U

Smartphone stroke detection breakthrough announced by Australian team

SYDNEY — A new technology that allows smartphones to identify strokes far quicker than existing methods has been developed by researchers in Australia

Russian involvement in China's moon exploration divides space research camps

Washington — China aims to mark a new milestone in space exploration next week when its Chang'e-6 probe is expected to return to Earth from the far side of the moon with rock and soil samples

EU countries approve landmark nature law after delays

BRUSSELS — European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this month

Dutch visitor dies on Greek island, 4 foreign missing

athens, greece — A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern Greek island of Samos, local media reported, the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing

Brazilian women protest bill that equates late abortions with homicide

SAO PAULO — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Saturday as protests sweep across Brazil in opposition to a bill that would further criminalize abortions