O'Neil, Hodges, Minoso, Kaat, Oliva, Fowler Get Into Baseball Hall of Fame

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Buck O'Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during a monumental, eight-decade career on and off the field,...

Pope Francis Visiting Migrant Camp on Greek Island of Lesbos

VATICAN, LELEMUKU.COM - Pope Francis will travel to Lesbos on Sunday to meet asylum-seekers at a migrant camp there on his second visit to...

Fugitive Parents of US Teen Accused in Deadly School Shooting Arrested

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Police in the Midwestern U.S. state of Michigan say they have arrested the parents of a teenager charged with f...

Multiple Cases of Omicron Variant Detected In New York City

NEW YORK, LELEMUKU.COM - Multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday,...

UN General Assembly Urged to Investigate Yemen's Seven-Year Conflict

GENEVA, LELEMUKU.COM - More than 60 organizations urged the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to establish an investigative body to gather...

Aariel Maynor Arrested for Shooting Dead of Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the death of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, who was fatally shot this ...

Matshidiso Moeti from WHO Criticizes Travel Bans on Southern African Countries

JOHANNESBURG, LELEMUKU.COM — The World Health Organization on Sunday urged countries around the world not to impose flight bans on souther...

Maryam Nuri, Kurdish Woman Is First Channel Victim to Be Named by British Media

LONDON, LELEMUKU.COM - A Kurdish woman from northern Iraq, who was among 27 migrants who died trying to cross the Channel between France a...

WHO Names New COVID Variant Omicron, Cautions Against Travel Measures

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday classified the B.1.1.529 variant detected in South Africa as a SA...

Anthony Fauci VIew on Travel Ban Over New COVID Variant

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said Friday that a ban on flights from southern Africa was a...

Inside China’s Brash on Xi Jinping, New Approach to State Media

BEIJING, LELEMUKU.COM - Earlier this month, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency posted a glowing profile of Xi Jinping, the country’s top...

European Union to Suspend Travel From Southern Africa Over New COVID Variant

BRUSSELS, LELEMUKU.COM  - European Union states have agreed to suspend travel from southern Africa after the detection of a new COVID-19 v...

Egypt Court Sentences 22 Militants to Death by Hanging

CAIRO, LELEMUKU.COM - An Egyptian court sentenced to death by hanging 22 militants Thursday for 54 attacks, including the attempted assass...

EU Drug Regulator Approves First COVID-19 Shot for 5 to11-Year-Olds

BRUSSELS, LELEMUKU.COM - The European Union drug regulator Thursday approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for childre...

Football, Parade Floats and Family Traditions Return on US Thanksgiving Day

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Americans will pack football stadiums, flock to parades and gather more freely Thursday for family feasts, grat...

Pope Francis Promises Najib Mikati to Help Moribund Lebanon Rise Again

BEIRUT, LELEMUKU.COM - Pope Francis, meeting the prime minister of Lebanon Thursday, compared the country to a dying person or moribund an...

Golden Stock Exchange Bull, Set Amid Brazil Poverty, Gone in a Week

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Many Brazilians felt bearish about the new Wall Street-inspired bull sculpture outside the stock exchange and d...

China Says It Will Shun Hegemony in Disputed Asian Sea

WASHINGTON, LELEMUKU.COM - Beijing's pledge this week to avoid dominance in the South China Seacomes too late to convince smaller Sout...

Winter Misery for Migrants Trapped on Poland-Belarus Border

WARSAW, LELEMUKU.COM - Poland has threatened Belarus with further economic sanctions and the closure of its border to all freight and rail...

European Countries Examines Mitigation Steps to Facing New COVID Surge

BRUSSELS, LELEMUKU.COM - Three European countries have broken records for new COVID-19 cases, prompting calls for urgent measures to slow t...