One year after Australia deported Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic for refusing to get vaccinated, Australian Open tournament officials say players this year will not be tested for COVID-19 and would even be allowed to compete even if they had th…
NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released …
Kenyan police have arrested more suspects over the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was found on
A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some piece…
Outbreak at a glanceThis is an update on the yellow fever situation in the WHO African Region since the last disease outbreak news was published on 2 September 2022.From 1 January 2021 to 7 December 2022, a total of 203 confirmed and 252 probable cases…
PARIS— Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.The two decades between 2003 and 2022 were “especially deadly decades …
LAGOS– Nigerian police killed two suspected kidnappers, in the latest crackdown on criminals, in the southern state of Delta, a police spokesperson said, yesterday.The suspects were killed on Sunday, as they tried to escape custody, in the city of Warr…
World Health Organization Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a grim assessment of the many health challenges and threats people around the world have faced this year.Topping the list was the COVID-19 pandemic that has sickened and killed…