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Africans see inequity in monkeypox response elsewhere
AP NEWS
OSUN, Nigeria- As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.
Police shoot unarmed Black pregnant woman 5 times
YOUR TANGO
Witnesses say a pregnant woman who was shot by police had her hands raised moments before the shots were fired.
Pfizer to offer low-cost medicines, vaccines to poor nations
AP
WASHINGTON DC, USA - Pfizer said Wednesday that it will provide nearly two dozen products, including its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment, at not-for-profit prices in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Families mourn, worry in wake of elementary school shooting
AP
UVALDE, Texas — Distraught families gathered at a local civic center and turned to social media to mourn and to make desperate pleas for help finding missing children as the death toll in a gruesome school shooting at a Texas elementary school rose to at least 19 students and two teachers.
Miami DEA agents facing corruption charges
MIAMI HERALD
A current Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a retired agent — both of whom had worked in the agency’s Miami field office for years — surrendered Friday on corruption charges involving the payment of thousands of dollars in bribes for confidential investigative information about drug-trafficking suspects.
18 children, 2 adults dead in shooting @ Texas school
ABC NEWS
UVALDE, Texas, USA- At least 18 children and two adults are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Wisconsin man gets 10 years in prison for racist acid attack
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADISON, Wisconsin — A judge sentenced a white Wisconsin man to a decade in prison Wednesday for throwing acid in a Latino man’s face in a racist attack at a Milwaukee bus stop.
California churchgoers detained gunman in deadly attack
AP
LAGUNA WOODS, California— A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before being stopped and hog-tied by parishioners in what a sheriff’s official called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.”
Portugal finds 5 monkeypox cases in men as outbreak spreads
AP
LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa.
Facebook sued in Kenya over work conditions
AP
KAMPALA, Uganda — A man who says he is “destroyed” after working as a content moderator for Facebook has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of human trafficking Africans to work in an exploitative and unsafe facility in Kenya.
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