A powerful image has showed the relief women experienced after discovering their right to abortion is now guaranteed in one European country. France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution toContinue Reading
Israel bombarded southern Gaza on Friday after it publicly sparred with its main ally the United States over the possibility of a Palestinian state, the creation of which Washington sees as the only pathway to a lasting peace.Witnesses reported gunfire and air strikes early on Friday in Khan Yunis, theContinue Reading
GENEVA: The Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said Friday. The WHO voiced confidence that it will be able to declare an end to the emergency some time in 2023, saying it was increasinglyContinue Reading
An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu, the country’s first fatality from the virus in years, health authorities said. The World Health Organization has called for vigilance after the recent detection of bird flu in mammals, but has stressed that the risk to humans is low. ButContinue Reading
A Dutch seismologist correctly predicted that a powerful earthquake would happen imminently in Turkey, three days before the disaster that killed more than 21,000 people. Frank Hoogerbeets from the Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGEOS) in the Netherlands made the prediction on Twitter on February 3, even attaching a map correctlyContinue Reading
GENEVA: Senior officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that Syria’s humanitarian needs where the highest after a major earthquake killed thousands there and in southern Turkey. Adelheid Marschang, WHO Senior Emergency Officer, said Turkey had a strong capacity to respond to the crisis but that theContinue Reading
Mexico has implemented one of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world, banning smoking in public spaces such as hotels, beaches, parks and all other public spaces. The law also prohibits businesses from promoting, advertising or sponsoring tobacco products, including putting them on display for sale. This law expands aContinue Reading
LONDON/GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it recommended that China monitor excess mortality from Covid-19 to gain a fuller picture of the impact of the surge in cases there.China said on Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with Covid-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-CovidContinue Reading
GENEVA: The World Health Organization criticised China’s “very narrow” definition of Covid deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak.There is growing concern over China’s steep rise in Covid infections since Beijing last month abruptly lifted years of hardline restrictions, with hospitalsContinue Reading
GENEVA: China’s Covid-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and underrepresents the number of hospitalisations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.The UN agency was preparing to meet Chinese scientists again on Thursday as part ofContinue Reading