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Havana, Cuba | XINHUA | – Cuba detected its first case of the monkeypox virus in a male Italian tourist, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health said late Saturday. The tourist arrived in Cuba on Aug. 15 and has been hospitalized in critical condition, the ministry said in a statement. …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | An Egyptian court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman to three years in prison for “sexually harassing” a monkey in the country’s north, state daily Al-Ahram reported Friday. A court in Mansoura city charged Basma Ahmed with “inciting debauchery” and “committing an obscene act in public”, …

New Delhi, India | AFP | A baby died after a monkey snatched it from its mother’s arms, Indian police investigating the incident in the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, said on Thursday. The 12-day-old boy was being fed by his mother when a rhesus macaque monkey …