GENEVA - The World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned that an estimated 13 million people are facing hunger across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, as the Horn of Africa grappled with severe drought caused by the driest conditions since 1981.
BOGOTA - At least 14 people were killed and 30 others injured in a landslide in the town of Dosquebradas in the western Colombian department of Risaralda, local authorities confirmed Tuesday, Feb. 8.
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his visiting Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh discussed Monday, Feb. 7, bilateral relations and regional issues of common interest.
ANTANANARIVO - A total of 20 deaths were recorded Monday, Feb. 7, in Madagascar by the Office of Risk and Disaster Management, following the passage of intense tropical cyclone Batsirai Saturday and Sunday.
WARSAW - A plane carrying U.S. soldiers landed in southern Poland on Sunday, on U.S. President Joe Biden's order to deploy additional U.S. troops to Poland, Romania, and Germany this week, amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. President Joe Biden held a phone conversation on Sunday, Feb. 6, over Iranian nuclear and other international issues, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
