Author: Cara Anna
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Deadly attack amid Ebola outbreak stalls containment efforts
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JOHANNESBURG • Congolese rebels killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack at the epicenter of the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, Congo’s military said Sunday, as the violence again forced crucial virus-containment efforts to be suspended. “It will be very hard to stop the outbreak if this violence continues,” said the World…
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Africa startled by Trump’s sudden and vulgar attention
JOHANNESBURG — Africans woke up on Friday to find President Donald Trump had finally taken an interest in their continent. It wasn’t what people had hoped for. Using vulgar language, Trump on Thursday questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway in rejecting…
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Reindeer and northern lights on summer hike in Arctic Circle
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ABISKO, Sweden – A multi-day hike above the Arctic Circle is no place for an iPhone to die. “There goes my camera,” I thought, and yet the loss was freeing. I was out of Internet and mobile phone range anyway. Now I’d have to pay more attention to my surroundings. I began to collect colorful…
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Vatican rep: 2015 ‘ideal time’ for pope NY visit
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Vatican’s envoy to the United Nations strongly hinted that Pope Francis would visit New York next year to address world leaders at the General Assembly, saying Thursday that the coming 70th anniversary of the world body would be “the ideal time.” Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the permanent observer of the Holy…
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Tainted milk, a baby’s death and lawsuit in China
XINXING, China • Heartbroken at the sudden death of their baby boy, the Yi family struggled to forget what they thought was a tragic twist of fate. They burned his clothes, toys, everything but a single photo and the baby formula he drank. Then health officials suddenly arrived at the family’s rural home last month…