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Kenyan diplomat Dr. Monica Juma, has served 3 presidents as the National Security Advisor, resumes as New Director General at the United Nations Vienna to combat Drugs. Dr. Juma currently serves as Executive Director at the UNODC and director general of the United Nations Office at Vienna and resumes office She has previously served as...

Bill Clinton: “As someone who grew up in a family affected by substance use, and who has known and loved many people grappling with addiction, I know how hard it can be to seek help—and how much strength and courage it takes to get on the road to recovery. “That’s why I was honored to...

President Paul Kegame: “Many promises have been made to Africa, which have never materialized into anything tangible. Is this unfair? Yes. But ultimately, as Africans, we must take responsibility before anyone else. “No world leader, no matter how big the country, is going to save our continent from itself. Conversations like these should remind us...

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a restless moment for a world worried about war, trade and artificial intelligence. “We’re the two superpowers,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House on Tuesday. “We’re the strongest nation...

A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care. It Is now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome instead of polycystic ovary syndrome. Researchers and supporters of the change said the old name, often shortened to PCOS, is inaccurate. It reduced a complex hormonal...

Nigeria ‘s military Tuesday denied a rights group’s claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, as attention turned again to a long-running fight against armed groups in the country’s volatile north. Amnesty International in a statement Monday said a military airstrike on Sunday hit a market in Tumfa in...

The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a...

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing backlash after he interrupted a panel at the Africa Forward Summit in Kenya to demand silence from the audience. Macron stormed the stage to rebuke audience members for what he called a “total lack of respect,” accusing them of disrupting speakers during a presentation by artists and young entrepreneurs....

King Charles III on Wednesday will deliver the government’s legislative program for the coming year to lawmakers with all the pomp and historic trappings that accompany the ceremonial opening of Britain’s Parliament. The question is whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be around to implement it and, even if he survives the latest government crisis,...

Honduran authorities on Tuesday arrested three people, including a powerful politician, accused of masterminding the 2024 assassination of an environmental leader, which became a symbol of government corruption and the ongoing perils of protecting the environment in the region. Adán Fúnez, former mayor of the city of Tocoa, was captured at his home on Tuesday...