Guinea

An attempted coup was thwarted in the west African coastal nation of Guinea-Bissau last week, the latest in a string of attempted overthrows of governments in the region.

A military junta on Sunday claimed to have seized control in the West African country of Guinea and detained President Alpha Conde, casting uncertainty over key bauxite and iron ore supplies.

Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea have detained President Alpha Conde in an apparent coup d’etat

Guinea has officially declared an Ebola epidemic in the West African nation after at least three people have died and others have been infected

Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five years ago.

A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal says women in Nigeria, Myanmar, Ghana and Guinea also experienced high rates of cesarean...

It’s the first time this has ever happened.

Hundreds of people across New England came out Saturday to adopt dogs, cats and more animals that need loving homes in the latest Clear the Shelters drive. NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Boston and necn once again took part in the nationwide pet adoption campaign, now in its fifth year, finding homes for more than 300 dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs...

A Southlake couple has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison each for enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years.

Firefighters tried several times to rescue the child but were unable to get inside the Hampton, New Hampshire, home due to the fire conditions.

A New Hampshire couple is facing dozens of animal cruelty charges after police found malnourished horses, dogs, cats, birds and reptiles on their property. Police say Edith Daughen and her husband, Nicholas Torrey, who had advertised their property as an animal rescue, are now facing 44 counts of animal cruelty. One of the horses police found was so sick, she...

From pit bulls to ponies, owners share how they eased their animals into living in harmony — despite some obvious differences.

Olympian and Newington resident Lindy Remigino, who won two gold medals at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, has died at age 87, according to a report in The New York Times. The cause was prostate cancer, his son told the newspaper.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a crossroads city of more than 1 million people in a troubling turn that marks the first time the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area. “This is a major, major game-changer in the outbreak,” Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response,...

A North Texas couple is accused of bringing a 5-year-old African girl to their Southlake home and forcing her to work for them for more than a decade before she was able to escape, prosecutors say.

Authorities say about 50 animals living in overcrowded, filthy conditions have been rescued in New Hampshire and have been relocated to the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals in Stratham following an animal cruelty complaint.

Guinea’s government says that two people in Guinea have tested positive for Ebola, months after the country was declared free of the virus. Ibrahima Sylla, spokesman for the national coordination for the fight against Ebola, said Thursday samples from two dead bodies tested positive for the virus. The bodies were tested in Koropara, in the N’Zerekore prefecture about 620 miles...

On a sunny afternoon before Amelia Earhart’s first attempt to fly around the world in 1937, an enterprising videographer shot some footage of the aviation pioneer. For years after she vanished, the grainy 16-millimeter film was thought to be lost — but after 50 years sitting of an airport shelf, the landmark footage was rediscovered.

Hundreds of turkeys at a Central California ranch are being killed to prevent the spread of a type of avian flu that is not a threat to people but can decimate poultry flocks.