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Jamaica urged to ‘fully decolonise’
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2025
» KINGSTON, Jamaica - Many Jamaicans want their country to ditch King Charles as head of state but a bill presented by the government to do just that has frustrated some critics of the monarchy, who believe the change should go further to slash colonial ties.
After bans, American women turn to an abortion hotline
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» FIRE ISLAND, US: The phone has been ringing nonstop for a year. Linda Prine, a New York doctor, repeats her advice on a loop: "Make sure you're drinking plenty of fluids;" "Take some ibuprofen;" "Everything's fine, you can relax."
Repentant ranchers rescuing Colombian wildlife
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» SAN JOSé DEL GUAVIARE (COLOMBIA) - Two newborn pumas and a convalescing porcupine share a room in the home of the Zapata family, which has renounced livestock farming to focus on stewardship of the Colombian Amazon and its animals uprooted by deforestation.
Simple measures can prevent a million baby deaths a year: study
AFP, Published on 09/05/2023
» PARIS - Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women -- such as offering aspirin -- could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every year, new research said on Tuesday.
Syria family takes in baby born under quake rubble
AFP, Published on 22/02/2023
» JINDAYRIS (SYRIA) - Born an orphan under the rubble in north Syria after a devastating earthquake, Afraa al-Suwadi has been given a new lease on life when relatives took her in.
Mexican town toasts tequila fish saved from extinction
AFP, Published on 23/02/2022
» TEUCHITLáN (MEXICO) - Residents of a small town in western Mexico are celebrating the reintroduction into the wild of the tequila fish -- an endemic species saved from the brink of extinction.
Mining fuels Greenland dreams of independence - and political crisis
AFP, Published on 17/02/2021
» COPENHAGEN - A rare earth mining project in Greenland has reignited dreams of the autonomous Arctic territory's full independence from Denmark one day, but environmentalists fear large-scale mining could harm the remote island's pristine landscape.
Covid could add to 2 million per year stillbirth toll: UN
AFP, Published on 08/10/2020
» PARIS: Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year -- one every 16 seconds -- the United Nations said Thursday, warning that the Covid-19 pandemic could add another 200,000 deaths to the "devastating" toll.
On-board toys, pregnancy tests await migrant mothers-to-be
AFP, Published on 08/08/2019
» ON BOARD THE OCEAN VIKING - The Ocean Viking is bound for the Libyan coast, and beside stocks of medicine and pregnancy kits, on-board midwife Marina is busy painting a turtle on the ship's migrant shelter.
US court orders ban of chlorpyrifos pesticide
Associated Press, Published on 10/08/2018
» WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.