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  • Spain defeats Argentina in the final to win their second World Cup.
  • Bahrain's interior ministry reported that its air raid sirens had sounded overnight on Sunday and Monday.
  • During what U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) called "a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone" in northern Iraq on Saturday, one American service member was killed and another was injured.
  • Three missiles launched from Iran struck various parts of Jordan, according to a statement posted by the army online on Sunday.
  • On Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that it was "looking into reports of an overnight attack on the construction site of a planned nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, Iran," following allegations of a U.S. strike on the facility made by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
  • Early on Sunday morning, a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, left nine people injured, the alleged gunman was shot by police and sent to a nearby hospital with life-threatening fatal injuries.

Tag: Sub-Saharan Africa

January 14, 2019

WHO Vows to Intensify Fight Against...

People in rural, impoverished areas there and elsewhere are most at risk, challenged by poor or remote health systems, and limited diagnoses, ambulances and other emergency care – including reliable antivenom

December 23, 2018

Thousands of African Migrants Die Crossing...

The International Organization for Migration reports most of the recorded deaths have occurred in the Sahara Desert, northern Niger, southern Libya, and northern Sudan. It says the migrants use these routes to reach Libya, the gateway to Europe and a hoped-for better life

December 13, 2018

Report: Journalists Faced Intimidation, Prison in...

Imprisonment, intimidation and allegations that journalists produce “fake news” surged in 2016, when U.S. President Donald Trump won the election, CPJ found

December 5, 2018

Uganda’s Young Population Needs Jobs to...

With the youngest population in the world, Uganda is one the countries most at risk from crime and instability from youth unemployment

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