The United States imposed sanctions on a Nicaraguan state gold mining operation Monday, saying it finances the regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo.. By placing the directorate on the sanctions blacklist, the United States "aims to cut off the Ortega-Murillo regime from its ability to use gold proceeds to oppress the Nicaraguan people."
Uganda has reported 14 confirmed cases of Ebola in the greater Kampala region, the country's health minister said Monday, but sought to assure anxious residents that the situation in the capital was under control.. But Aceng told AFP Monday: "The situation in Kampala is still under control and (there is) no need to restrict people's movements."
American students saw big declines in their reading and mathematics scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic, with national test results described as "appalling and unacceptable" by the education secretary.. The pandemic also worsened learning outcomes in other ways, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which organizes the tests.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have detained more than 20 politicians and civil servants accused of organising riots over a border demarcation deal with the neighbouring Central Asian country Uzbekistan, a rights group said Monday.. The group was created after Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan signed an agreement for delimitation and demarcation of their borders in September.
Bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of food worldwide.. "Getting inferior food ... should affect wintering.
Russia on Monday claimed that Ukraine was in the "final stages" of developing a so-called dirty bomb to use against Moscow's forces, allegations Kyiv said were "absurd" and could signal Russia's battlefield plans.. "Our countries made clear that we all reject Russia's transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory," according to the statement.
Opening arguments were due to begin Monday in the Los Angeles trial of disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, with five alleged victims expected to take the stand during the two-month case.. Weinstein attorney Mark Werksman has said there would be testimony in Los Angeles from well-known figures, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Western embassies in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday advised their citizens in the country to limit their movements due to what they called a higher threat of a "terror" attack, despite appeals for calm from the authorities. . On Sunday, the United States embassy in Nigeria issued an advisory warning its citizens of an "elevated risk of terror attacks in Nigeria, specifically in Abuja," without giving further details.
Hundreds of thousands of people were being evacuated Monday from the path of a cyclone careening towards densely populated, low-lying Bangladesh, according to officials.. The 1970 Bhola cyclone, one of the world's worst natural disasters, killed several hundred thousand people in Bangladesh -- then known as East Pakistan -- and India.
A week before Israel's fifth general election in less than four years, one question dominates: will the hawkish ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu return to power?. "The result could be the most extreme, right-wing government that Israel has ever had," she told AFP. Lapid, a 58-year-old former television presenter who leads the centrist Yesh Atid party, has seen signs of rising support during his brief tensure as interim prime minister.
