Topic: John Campbell

A British expert who helped develop Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine said Saturday it is "extremely unlikely" the newly discovered Omicron variant will trigger a wave of serious illness among vaccinated people.

Britain confirmed its first two cases of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant on Saturday, shortly after a German health official also reported the first likely case in that country.

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Mali Saturday with a convoy of West African leaders to negotiate for reversal of a coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keita.

The Pentagon has disciplined 16 service members following an airstrike that killed 42 at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last fall.

The U.S. Army announced it is deploying 1,800 troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to assist in operations to advise and train indigenous forces.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan announced Wednesday that several troops were suspended over the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.

The U.S. military targeted an Afghan hospital last month because it mistook it for a Taliban compound, military officials reportedly said Tuesday.

Afghanistan and Russia are set to sign an agreement for the delivery of Mi-35 gunship helicopters as Afghan forces seek to boost their capabilities.

WikiLeaks is crowd-sourcing funds to pay a $50,000 bounty for video and audio of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan.

President Obama apologized Wednesday for an errant airstrike that leveled a hospital in Afghanistan last weekend, as officials call for an investigation.