Nicole Taylor, a member of the country music trio Taylor Red, has died after battling breast cancer for the past four years, according to her sisters and fellow bandmates. “We are shocked and heartbroken to announce the passing of our sister,” said Nika Taylor and Natalie Taylor in a social media post published on Monday….
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado is back in her home country after nearly a year in exile, her team confirmed to CBS News on Sunday. “I am here. With you,” Machado posted in Spanish on X. Later Sunday night, she posted in Spanish, “Finally, Caracas, I’m here!!” along with video of…
The latest Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 4,700 people and is still spreading, with Nigeria recording its first case in more than a decade. The epidemic is not yet under control and tighter surveillance is needed, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told RFI. The Nigerian patient is…
In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat of the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition and former U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary, explains why a system designed after the Second World War must be redesigned around countries’ own visions, and why she is not in the camp that says aid is dead. Ovidiu…
“There’s a decent chance we could run out,” said Likens, who runs the food pantry in Dunlow as director of community outreach for Cabwaylingo Presbyterian Chapel, a small brick church he attended growing up. “I don’t want them to sit in that line and not get anything,” he said. “But I don’t have a lot…
Four years after Milkor earmarked five of its 380 drones for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), South Africa has still not bought one. The Cape Town-built aircraft is flying for a customer in the Middle East instead, Milkor says. “South Africa is not a direct customer in the sense that they have bought,”…
Manchester, United Kingdom – Agnes Peters, a care worker from Manchester, vividly remembers the moment she was targeted for her race. “I was coming back from work,” she said, her voice low from a table in a Manchester library’s cafe. “I was in my uniform … and they told me to go back to my…
Guyana on Friday became the latest “third country” to accept migrants deported from the United States, a U.S. official told CBS News. The South American country received a handful of Afghan and Cuban deportees expelled by the Trump administration, the official said. Guyana is one of more than 30 nations that have now signed deals with the…
Dolly Parton, one of the music prolific and revered country singers of all time, has died aged 80. The singer’s nephew Brian Seaver announced the news on behalf of the Parton and Owens family, revealing that Dolly had asked him years ago to be the one that made the announcement when the time came. Born…
Dolly Parton, the American singer, songwriter, actress and philanthropist whose career spanned more than six decades, died on Tuesday, August 25, at the age of 80. Parton died in Nashville, Tennessee, after a brief battle with cancer, according to her family and representatives. Her nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced her death in a video posted to…
