Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, died of cardiac arrest Saturday. He was 71.“Saleem always focused on the poor and marginalized, making sure that climate ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street clawed back some of its sharp recent losses to start a week that could see more big swings in financial markets. The S&P 500 finished 1.2% higher Monday in its first trading after dropping more than 10% below its high point for the year. The Dow ended ...
PORTO-NOVO, Benin – For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
CAIRO (AP) — Adel Omran, a video producer in chaos-stricken Libya for The Associated Press, has died. He was 46.Omran died at his family home in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Port Said early Friday after suffering a heart attack, his family said.Before joining the AP more than a decade ...
BANGKOK (AP) – Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive the country’s strict zero-COVID measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, died on Friday. He was 60.<span class="print_trim">An announcement from China’s Center for ...
BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/li-keqiang">Li Keqiang</a>, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.<a ...
