President Trump’s decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region marks the end of American neutrality in the conflict, which threatens to destabilize the crucial North African corner for Europe and European security interests. Morocco’s decades-long conflict with Western Sahara’s freedom fighters remained dormant until last month. …
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Historians and health professionals say that the “cytokine storm” was a common feature of the 1918 influenza. But how big of a potentially fatal immune response do coronavirus epidemics play? About 500 million people, or a third of the world’s population, became infected with the Spanish flu in 1918. About …
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LAGOS, Nigeria – Many people were killed when Nigerian troops opened fire on a main protest site in Lagos, witnesses said, as the government sought to end a two-week march against police brutality that engulfed a nationwide demonstration. Three witnesses gathered among hundreds of protesters at the Lakey Toll Gate …
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Lagos, Nigeria Police On Monday thousands of protesters settled in Africa’s largest city, staged the largest demonstration in a two-week campaign against police brutality and extended a standoff with the government that has promised to restore order. Groups of placard-waving protesters blocked major roads leading to Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital …
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In the Chilean capital, protesters set fire to two churches, looted a store and clashed with police a week before a referendum on whether to erode a one-sentence constitution. In television images from Santiago on Sunday, masked protesters were shooting from their smartphones and excited as the spire of the …
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