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WHO says 9,000 patients need emergency evacuation...
Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just...
Heavy clashes, more deadly aid chaos in war-ravage...
Heavy clashes and explosions shook Gaza, witnesses said on Saturday, as the Red Crescent reported several people killed during the...
Parents find solace at Hong Kong's 'Forever Love'...
Behind the doors of a terracotta-pink building with sloping arches is a facility unlike any other in Hong Kong -- the city's sole...
Israel's Netanyahu approves new Gaza ceasefire tal...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved Friday new talks on a Gaza ceasefire, a day after the world's top court ordered...
Pandemic accord talks heading for extra time
Two years of talks towards striking a landmark global agreement on pandemic prevention were headed for overtime Thursday, with a b...
Athens chokes in clouds of Sahara dust
Athenians are choking in clouds of thick dust blown in from the Sahara along with unseasonably warm weather, weather forecasters a...
Japan drugmaker reports two more deaths in supplem...
A Japanese drugmaker whose dietary supplements are at the centre of a growing health scare reported on Thursday two more deaths po...
Israel bombs Gaza, fights Hamas around hospitals
Israeli forces pounded besieged Gaza on Wednesday in the war sparked by the October 7 attack and fought Hamas around several hospi...
US Supreme Court weighs restrictions on abortion p...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was weighing restrictions imposed by a lower court on the drug that is most widely used in the United...
No let-up in Gaza war despite UN ceasefire resolut...
Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Cou...
US Supreme Court to weigh restrictions on abortion...
The Supreme Court reenters the contentious legal battle over abortion on Tuesday as it weighs restrictions on the drug that is mos...
Israel fury at US abstention on Security Council c...
Israel reacted angrily on Monday to the first UN Security Council vote to demand an "immediate ceasefire" in the Gaza war, after i...
UN Security Council to vote on new Gaza ceasefire...
The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza, after Russia and China vet...
Pandemic accord talks at loggerheads as time ticks...
The final round of talks on a landmark pandemic accord faces a frantic last push this week, with countries still pulling in differ...
Gaza bombed as UN chief decries 'horror and starva...
Air and artillery strikes pounded targets in Gaza Sunday as UN chief Antonio Guterres called for a surge of aid into the besieged...
Catherine 'touched' by support as royal family ree...
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has said she is "enormously touched" by the support she has received from around the world following...
UN chief, at Gaza crossing, appeals for end to war...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough...
UK in shock after Catherine's cancer announcement
After weeks of wild speculation, the UK was on Saturday digesting the shock news that Catherine, Princess of Wales, has cancer, wi...
UN chief to visit Gaza border as Israel vows Rafah...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit Egypt's border with Gaza on Saturday, after Israel vowed to send its tr...
UN chief to visit Gaza border as Israel vows to go...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit Egypt's border with Gaza on Saturday, after Israel said it would send i...
Princess Catherine cancer: What is preventative ch...
Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced on Friday that she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy to treat cancer discovered afte...
Charles and Catherine's cancer diagnoses: key date...
Catherine, Princess of Wales's announcement Friday that she has cancer and is in the early stages of chemotherapy comes just weeks...
Israel defiant on Rafah assault as US-backed cease...
Israel plans to send troops into Gaza's Rafah even without US support, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US top diplomat...
'I woke up in a demon world': How condition makes...
When Victor Sharrah woke up one morning he was shocked to see that his housemate suddenly had pointed ears, gigantic eyes and a sl...
US and Israel hold tense talks as Gaza truce plan...
Israel plans to send troops into Gaza's Rafah even without US support, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Antony Blinken on Fr...
Down in polls, but Lula's jog goes viral
After slipping in the polls, a simple jog -- viewed 10 million times on Instagram -- could give Brazil's President Lula a bit of a...
US surgeons transplant pig kidney to live patient...
US surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, the hospita...
US urges 'immediate' ceasefire as Gaza war grinds...
The US top diplomat stressed Thursday the need for an "immediate ceasefire" and a deal to free hostages in war-torn Gaza as he vis...
Blinken tours Mideast as Israel presses raid on Ga...
US top diplomat Antony Blinken touched down Wednesday in the Middle East to bolster efforts for a truce in the war in Gaza, as Isr...
The search to discover why 'outliers' survive dead...
When Herve found out he had glioblastoma -- the most aggressive form of brain cancer -- at the age of 40, he made a deal with hims...
Seoul allocates new medical school slots despite d...
South Korea on Wednesday announced the allocation of 2,000 new medical school admissions slots nationwide every year, moving ahead...
Blinken due in Mideast in new bid to secure truce
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to return Wednesday to the Middle East in a new bid to secure a truce in the Israel-H...