Tag: west

  • Palestinian president in hospital undergoing heart test: medical source

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was taken to hospital in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and a medical source said the 81-year-old leader was undergoing a heart test. A statement carried by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, and attributed to a presidential spokesman, said Abbas' “health condition is very normal”. Doctors planned to perform…

  • Mali’s president operated on in France for tumour

    Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita underwent an operation at a hospital in Paris this week as part of treatment for a benign tumour on his neck, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday. Keita, 71, who has served as president of the West African nation since 2013, was operated on for a parathyroid…

  • Mali’s president operated on in France for tumour

    Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita underwent an operation at a hospital in Paris this week as part of treatment for a benign tumour on his neck, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday. Keita, 71, who has served as president of the West African nation since 2013, was operated on for a parathyroid…

  • Mali’s president operated on in France for tumor

    Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita underwent an operation at a hospital in Paris this week as part of treatment for a benign tumor on his neck, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday. Keita, 71, who has served as president of the West African nation since 2013, was operated on for a parathyroid…

  • Aftershocks rock Indonesia after massive quake, calls for calm

    By Kanupriya Kapoor PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – Strong aftershocks rocked Indonesia early on Thursday after a massive undersea earthquake sparked fears of a region-wide disaster similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people. There were no reports of deaths or damage to buildings from Wednesday night's 7.8 magnitude…

  • Carson signals exit, U.S. Republicans grapple with Trump victories

    Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson signaled on Wednesday he was quitting the Republican presidential race, leaving three candidates facing Donald Trump as the party establishment struggled to find a way to halt the outspoken businessman. Carson, a conservative who briefly led opinion polls among Republicans earlier in the campaign, said he did not “see a political…

  • Climate impact predicted to cause 500,000 extra deaths in 2050

    By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer and heart disease, experts said on Wednesday. As extreme weather such as floods and heat waves wreaks havoc with harvests and…