Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” was shut down this week because of the host’s ailing 91-year-old mother, according to reports from The New York Post. On Thursday, Comedy Central suspended production due to “unforeseen circumstances.” The network is filling the time by [...]
Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States (KaiserHealth) – For the vast majority of parents-to-be, giving birth involves a stay at a hospital or birthing center. But a growing minority are choosing instead to have babies at home, where, they hope, they can have a more private, low-tech experience and allow the process to unfold naturally. It [...]
Nairobi, Kenya (IRIN) – At a waterlogged gold mine in western Kenya’s Migori District,–year-old Jacob*, one of 15,000 children toiling in the region’s pits, scours the water for glistering flakes, a job he says beats going to school on an empty stomach. “I would rather work for people here at the mine and at the [...]
Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Six years after the end of a decade-long armed conflict, Nepal’s ex-Maoist fighters who have been languishing in various satellite camps have begun leaving their cantonments. The process started Friday in the three major camps–Sindhuli, Chitwan and Nawalparasi–and was scheduled to begin in the other [...]
Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia (IRIN) – Cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as domestic violence, are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, with social workers attributing the trend to hard economic times made worse by recent drought in the region. “Numbers [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – There’s no place like home–when it comes to giving birth. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of home births in the United States has risen dramatically since 2004. Births taking place outside of the traditional [...]
Niamey, Niger (IRIN) – Nearly half Niger’s population does not have enough to eat and the government says it is facing a grain shortfall of 692,501 tons, following another severe drought across the Sahel. The government says it needs 3.8 million tons of cereals to feed six million people spread across 6,981 villages, equating to [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including birth control, without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or deductible. The Department of Health and Human [...]
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial marked its first holiday named for the slain civil rights leader Monday with a controversy. Shortly after the memorial was dedicated in August, it became obvious that an inscription at the base of the 9.1-meter high [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Trenton, MI, United States (AHN) – Kathleen Edward, the sick 9-year old girl who made national headlines after being taunted by a neighbor on Facebook, has lost her battle with Huntington’s Disease. Kathleen’s father told Fox2 News Detroit that his daughter passed away at 10:07 p.m. Wednesday. Kathleen suffered [...]
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