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By:NEWS WIRES Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women’s health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court ...

Source: https://bbc.com/africalive The United States has said it is “deeply troubled” by the passing in Ghana of a stringent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, which it says threatens constitutional freedoms. “The bill would also undermine Ghana’s valuable public health, media and civic spaces, and economy,” the US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. It has called for the “review of ...

By Kayla Epstein BBC News A ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them, has opened up a new front in the US battle over reproductive medicine. The decision has thrown the future of IVF treatments in the state into doubt, with a host ...

By Nadine Yousif & Mike Wendling BBC News One person has died and 21 people were wounded in a shooting in Missouri at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. Officials said they treated eight victims who were in immediately life-threatening condition and seven others who had suffered injuries that could prove life-threatening. Nine children were ...

By Lipika Pelham BBC News The co-founder of Access Bank, one of the largest banks in Nigeria, was among six people killed in a helicopter crash in California on Friday.  Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and a former president of the Nigerian stock exchange were all killed in the crash. President Bola Tinubu described the death of Mr Wigwe as ...

https://bbc.com/africalive The king of Ghana’s traditional Asante kingdom – known as the Asantehene – has received seven royal artefacts that had been looted from the kingdom nearly 150 years ago. The items were handed over to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, during a ceremony on Thursday, after they were repatriated from the Fowler Museum, based at the University of ...

By Ido Vock and Max Matza BBC News At least three people have been killed by falling trees as a powerful storm drenches California bringing flooding, mudslides and power outages. Fire officials have responded to over 130 flooding incidents and conducted several rescues since the deluge began. Forecasters say heavy rain with life-threatening flash flooding will continue into Tuesday. The ...

By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded across the US after the country was pummelled by ferocious winter storms for the past week.  The deaths include at least 25 in Tennessee and 16 in Oregon, which remains under a state of emergency following severe ice storms.  Tens of thousands of people also remain ...

By Nadine Yousif BBC News At least three people have died and over half a million homes are without power after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada. Strong winds flipped cars and knocked over homes in Florida, where several tornadoes were reported.  More than 1,300 flights in or out of the ...

By Chloe Kim  BBC News, New York A student shot six people, one of them fatally, at a high school in the US state of Iowa before taking his own life on the first day back from holiday break, police said.  A “pretty rudimentary” improvised explosive device was found by investigators at Perry High School, police said, and rendered safe.  ...