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[ad_1] Los Angeles – The Kansas City Royals jolted the New York Yankees's Major League Baseball playoff hopes with a series-leveling 4-2 win in the Bronx on Monday as the Detroit Tigers bounced back to stun the Cleveland Guardians.The Royals, pipped 6-5 by the Yankees in a game one thriller on Saturday, produced a four-run fourth inning blast to set up a victory at Yankee Stadium.The result leaves the best-of-five […]
[ad_1] Nairobi, Kenya — The World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa launched the Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) Support Tool to assist countries assess their health workforce education capacity, supply, demand and need for health workers and facilitate integrating health workforce planning into Health Labour Marker Analysis. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 developed the Health Labour Market Analysis Guidebook, trained 75 experts from 25 countries in Africa. Building on this, the WHO designed a HLMA Support Tool […]
[ad_1] In Senegal, rap music and hip-hop culture emerged in the 1980s, driven by the urban youth. It has grown to be one of the most popular music genres in the country. But what role do female Senegalese artists play in developing and promoting hip-hop? And what challenges do they face in this male-dominated industry? Mamadou Dramé, who has done several studies on Senegalese hip-hop, answers these and other questions. What characterises Senegalese hip-hop? The year 1988 marks the beginning […]
[ad_1] The Israel Defense Forces said it intercepted most of a barrage of rockets Hamas and other Iran-backed groups fired toward Tel Aviv, as fighting escalated Monday on multiple fronts after a year of war.Sirens sounded across central Israel, and two people were injured, according to Israeli health officials.The military had earlier warned of what it called an "immediate” threat of rocket fire from Hamas to mark the militant group’s […]
[ad_1] Starbucks Corp. is removing the Princi brand of Italian baked goods from many of its higher-end cafes, stepping back from an initiative championed by longtime leader Howard Schultz. The chain’s eight Roastery and Reserve locations in the U.S. and China will phase out the label, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News, which didn’t outline the timeline for the removal. The stores’ food assortment — which includes […]
[ad_1] ISLAMABAD – Two Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, the Chinese embassy in the country said, describing it as a "terrorist attack."In a statement emailed to journalists, separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the explosion was an attack carried out by them using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting Chinese nationals, including […]
[ad_1] BBCDorothy Masasa is one of the thousands of women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in MalawiDorothy Masasa happily walks down a dirt road on a sunny afternoon, her baby securely strapped on her back.Just six months ago the 39-year-old, originally from southern Malawi's Thyolo district, was in Kenya for life-saving radiotherapy.Malawi has only recently received its first such machines, so other women with cancer may no longer have […]
[ad_1] A new COVID-19 vaccine has sparked extreme anxiety among parts of the public, leading some businesses to deny services to those who have received the shot and causing at least one clinic to stop giving the vaccine for fear of being harassed.The health ministry and experts say such fears — fueled by comments circulated both online and offline that the vaccine multiplies in the body indefinitely and as a […]
[ad_1] JERUSALEM/CAIRO – Hezbollah rockets hit Israel's third-largest city of Haifa, police said early Monday, and Israeli media reported 10 injured in the country's north on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread in the Middle East.Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian militants group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with a salvo of "Fadi 1" missiles.Media said […]
[ad_1] Japan's new finance minister hinted Monday that the new administration might be less hawkish on rates than originally expected.“I will put every effort into getting Japan out of deflation,” said Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato, who is also the minister charged with battling deflation.Beating deflation requires loose monetary policy, according to Abenomics, of which Kato is a known supporter. The economic philosophy, introduced by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo […]
