Month: April 2022

Osaka rallies, tops Bencic to make Miami Open women’s final

Washington, Naomi Osaka’s eyes welled with tears when her match ended, an all-too-familiar scene for her in recent years.These were of the happy variety. For the former world No. 1, that’s major progress, reports AP.The unseeded Osaka defeated No. 22 B…

US State Department Warns Congress About South Sudan’s Leaders

WASHINGTON — Ten years after independence, South Sudan “remains a deeply fragile nation beset by weak governance, pervasive insecurity, fiscal mismanagement, and widespread corruption.”That was the thrust of a U.S. State Department report to Congress, …

Thousands Fleeing Violent Clashes in DRC in Need of Emergency Aid

GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says some 46,000 Congolese who fled violent clashes early this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province need emergency assistance.The fighting, which erupted March 28 between M23, a rebel military …