Superbugs Deadlier Than AIDS, Malaria, Study Shows

LONDON — More than 1.2 million people are dying every year directly from bacterial infections that are resistant to several antibiotics, according to a new study, making multiresistant bacteria far deadlier than HIV/AIDS or malaria. A further 4.95 mill...

UN Grants $150 Million in Aid for 13 Underfunded Crises

GENEVA — The United Nations is allocating $150 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund to support seriously underfunded humanitarian operations in 13 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.Topping the list of underfunded c...

Ethiopia on Edge of Humanitarian Disaster, UN Agency Says

GENEVA — The World Food Program warns Ethiopia is on the edge of a humanitarian disaster as escalating fighting in the north is preventing the delivery of needed food from reaching millions of people in battle-scarred Tigray province.The last time a fo...

NY Times Freelancer on Trial in Zimbabwe in Immigration Case

A freelance journalist for The New York Times went on trial Wednesday in Zimbabwe, accused of helping two of the newspaper's reporters enter the country illegally. Critics say the charges are another example of the government's attempts to control the ...

Malians Face Economic Sanctions and Border Closures

West African sanctions imposed on Mali this week, after the country’s military government postponed elections, block all but essential commercial and financial transactions. While the punitive move aims to pressure the military to hold elections as pro...

Citing Crime, US Warns to ‘Reconsider Travel’ to Nigeria

With kidnappings and other crimes on the rise in Nigeria, the U.S. State Department is urging Americans, dual citizens and others to “reconsider travel” to the West African country.The State Department’s travel advisory, issued January 4, warns that “v...