WASHINGTON, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the US public health agency has stepped down after just four weeks on the job, health officials announced Wednesday without explaining her departure, which follows the Trump administration's shift toward vaccine skepticism. "Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people," the Department of Health, which oversees the CDC, said in a curt statement on X. Monarez, a health scientist and long-time civil servant, earned US Senate confirmation to the job and was then sworn in by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on July 31. The Washington Post, which first reported Monarez's dismissal, said...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that members of his administration would meet with US officials in New...
KIGALI, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Rwanda and Mozambique have signed a "peace and security" agreement during a visit by the southern African leader to...
The move makes South Korea the latest country to restrict social media use among schoolchildren, following similar steps in countries including Australia and the Netherlands....
QUITO, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Nine people died and several more were injured Wednesday after a bus plunged into a ravine in the Andes...
BOGOTA, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The 15-year-old shooter of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, who was attacked in June and died in August, was...
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A group of seven countries including the United States on Wednesday asked the UN Security Council...
PARIS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday warned that snap legislative polls would not help restore stability in his...
ABIDJAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Sixty people have officially submitted bids to run for president of Ivory Coast in October elections, including two leading...
NAIROBI, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Prominent Kenyan activist and staunch government critic Boniface Mwangi announced Wednesday he would run for president in 2027, just...
ISTANBUL, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A groom died of his injuries after beinghit by celebratory gunfire after his own wedding in northern Turkey, localmedia...
DHAKA, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS) - Health officials today said they recorded 430 fresh cases of dengue onslaughts in the past 24 hours with most...
COPENHAGEN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksenon Wednesday apologised to more than 4,500 Greenlandic victims of a forcedcontraception campaign run by...