Gabrielle Reyes

Kenya's fertility rate declined over the past decade, particularly in urban areas of the country, Kenya's the Star newspaper reported on Fridayciting newly released data from the Kenyan government.

A police officer in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state was arrested on Wednesday for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl late last month at a police station while she was attempting to report a separate gang rape days earlier by four men, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency order on Friday night — his second such act since April 1 —after violent protests demanding Gotabaya's ouster gained renewed momentum in Colombo earlier that same day, Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror newspaper reported.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday in which he appeared to warn members against questioning the Party's draconian "zero tolerance" policy toward the Chinese coronavirus, which has seen Shanghai and Beijing endure punishing lockdowns in recent

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Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani issued a Twitter statement on Thursday in which he said Taliban leaders met earlier that day with U.N. representatives to discuss women's rights in Afghanistan to mark the occasion of International Women's Day, which took place on Wednesday.

China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned the U.S. government against imposing financial sanctions on China in response to its stance on Russia's latest war with Ukraine, saying Beijing would answer such a gesture with a "strong and resolute response.

Chinese pathogen biology professor Yang Zhanqiu told China's state-run Global Timeson Wednesday the nation's latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus "won't spread widely" despite Chinese health officials reporting record-high cases of the disease in recent days across nearly two dozen

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Moderna finalized an agreement with Kenya's government on Monday to build the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant's first manufacturing facility for mRNA vaccines on the African continent, Africanews reported Tuesday.

Liu Jiacheng, a member of China's National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a "nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman told the Atlantic on Thursday his human right to remain “innocent until proven guilty” was violated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.

Countries across the Middle East and North Africa that rely heavily upon Ukraine and Russia for wheat imports may face a food crisis in the near future if Kyiv and Moscow remain at war, regional experts told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.

Taiwan sent 27 metric tons of medical supplies to Ukraine on Monday in a shipment arriving via Frankfurt, Germany.

U.S. President Joe Biden incorrectly referred to Ukrainians as "Iranians" during his State of the Union address broadcast live on Tuesday night.

An Italian national who runs an animal refuge in Ukraine vowed to stay by his pets' sides on Sunday, telling Argentina's Clarinnewspaper he would rather "die" in Ukraine amid its ongoing military invasion by Russia than leave the shelter.

China lifted all wheat import restrictions on Russia Thursday, the same day the U.S. and the U.K. announced the imposition of financial sanctions on Moscow in response to its invasion of Ukraine this week.

Chinese nationals in Kyiv, Ukraine's national capital, are facing heightened "security risks" amid Russia's military invasion of Ukraine this week, China's state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.

Authorities in charge of a public Hong Kong hospital separated an 11-month-old baby from her mother this week after the mother admitted her infant daughter to the facility for an unknown illness and the baby subsequently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus,Agence France-Presse (AFP)

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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili — who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October 2021 on corruption charges he denies — launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest the Georgian government's "treatment of him," particularly poor medical care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin saidin an extensive speech on Monday that he "plans to sign a decree recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR)," two Russian separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine's Donbass territory, the Kremlin press service reported.

Courts in five separate South Korean cities —Daejeon,Incheon, Busan, Seoul, andSuwon — ruled against plans by local governments to require coronavirus "vaccine passports" for children aged 12 to 18 years in recent days, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.