Could eating dark chocolate reduce the risk of diabetes?
Dark chocolate is thought to have many health benefits – from guarding against cardiovascular disease to lowering blood pressure. Now,...
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Rights groups urge Zimbabwe’s president to sign bill abolishing death penalty
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Rights groups are urging Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sign into law a bill that would abolish...
South Korea National Assembly votes to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Some members of Yoon’s own conservative People Power Party provided crucial votes backing the impeachment.South Korean President...
Syrians celebrate freedom while Sudan becomes biggest humanitarian crisis ever
Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus' historic main mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since the ouster of...
Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage
Beneath mango trees in the lush garden of the Palais de Lomé, an oceanside estate in the Togolese capital, dozens...
40 years after Bhopal gas tragedy, barefoot school ‘offers hope’
Bhopal, India – Triveni Sonani starts her working day at 9am when she opens the gates of Oriya Basti school...
President Macron names centrist ally Bayrou as France's next prime minister
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister in an effort to...
Syrian refugees in Somalia hope to return home
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA/WASHINGTON — Expressing a renewed desire to return to their homeland, some Syrian refugees residing Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, are...
Singapore steps up executions and pressure on anti-death penalty groups
Singapore – Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad’s father was in a remote part of Iran when he received the news that he...
Nigeria unveils new gunboats to enhance operations against oil theft
Abuja, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities in oil-rich Rivers State unveiled on Friday six military-grade gunboats to help security agents battle...
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