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Twelve South African cheetahs began a voyage to India on Friday as part of an intergovernmental agreement to reintroduce the big cats to India. They will join eight cheetahs from neighbouring Namibia that were released into the Kuno National Park in central India last year. “The 12 cheetahs… have begun …

A Chinese representative was met with protests when arriving in Taiwan Saturday morning for a three-day visit, according to The Associated Press. Li Xiaodong, the head of Shanghai city’s Taiwan Affairs Office, was invited to the Taiwanese capital of Taipei by its newly elected China-friendly Mayor Chiang Wan-an.  Dozens of …

North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Saturday afternoon, according to the Japanese and South Korean governments. The missile landed a short while later in the East Sea. The Japanese prime minister’s office said a “possible ballistic missile was launched from North Korea. We will let you know as soon …

The World Health Organization on Friday appealed for more funds to support Ukraine’s health sector, which has been severely damaged by the Russian invasion. WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said the country now needed more funds to ensure that mental health services and rehabilitation could be dispensed, while …

A top prosecutor in Jamaica has ruled that Prime Minister Andrew Holness won’t face charges over possible conflict of interest in contracts awarded to a construction company in 2007-2009 while he was education minister. Jamaica’s director of public corruption issued the ruling Thursday after reviewing a report on the case …

French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave of deadly outbreaks nears his farm once again, he says it’s time to accept a solution once considered taboo: vaccination. “The goal is that our animals …

Fighters from Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped scores of women and girls in the east in November, Amnesty International said in a report on Friday. The militia, which stepped up its offensive in regions near the borders of Rwanda and Uganda …

More than 33 million children in several southern African countries have been vaccinated against polio, part of ongoing efforts to eradicate the infectious paralytic disease that has been largely contained in much of the world, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. About 80 million drops of the inoculation have …

Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Gates. A court statement Friday said requirements had been …

Security forces have arrested a man allegedly behind the killing of former Afghan female lawmaker Mursal Nabizada, a Taliban spokesman said Friday. Khalid Zadran, spokesman for the capital Kabul’s police chief, claimed that the arrested man had “confessed to his crime” of killing Nabizada and her bodyguard earlier this year. …