World
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International
1/15/2023 7:07:17 PM
The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.
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World
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International
1/4/2023 7:37:31 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday the agency is "concerned about the risk to life in China'' amid the coronavirus' explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.
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World
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International
12/21/2022 8:23:37 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is ``very concerned'' about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its "zero COVID'' policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected.
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World
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International
12/6/2022 8:15:00 PM
Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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World
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Africa
11/9/2022 7:55:36 PM
The WHO called Wednesday for a massive influx of food and medicines into Ethiopia's northern Tigray region following the ceasefire deal, saying no aid had yet been allowed in.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/1/2022 9:31:29 PM
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that its emergency committee had determined that monkeypox should continue to be classified as a global health emergency.
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World
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International
10/12/2022 7:53:45 PM
Case numbers in the global monkeypox outbreak have now topped 70,000, the WHO announced Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean people should drop their guard.
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Egypt
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Health
10/10/2022 12:29:23 PM
Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Egypt on Sunday to attend the 69th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC69) taking place 10-13 October in Cairo.
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World
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International
9/14/2022 6:16:19 PM
The number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
9/13/2022 10:56:02 AM
"Succession'' and "Ted Lasso'' topped the Emmy Awards on Monday, in a ceremony that touted the influence of TV and extended honors to global sensation "Squid Game'' and winners who delivered messages of empowerment.
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World
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International
9/7/2022 9:38:20 PM
The number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere in the world last week by about 12%, according to the World Health Organization’s latest weekly review of the pandemic issued Wednesday.
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Sports
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World
9/7/2022 1:32:33 PM
Domenico Tedesco was fired by German side RB Leipzig on Wednesday, a day after a 4-1 home thrashing by Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk in their opening Champions League group match.
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World
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International
8/31/2022 8:16:42 PM
More than 50,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded in the global outbreak, WHO figures showed Wednesday, but transmission is slowing in the virus hotspots of Europe and the United States.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
8/22/2022 9:43:15 PM
Are you ready for some football? Fine, but the return of the NFL is why the 2022 Emmy Awards have been drop-kicked from their usual Sunday berth to Monday.
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World
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International
8/21/2022 4:57:08 PM
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz raised the roasted turkey leg like a sword in his Iowa State Fair debut in 2014, the up-and-coming conservative joining a half-dozen other Republican presidential prospects in strolling the Grand Concourse.
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World
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Africa
8/18/2022 8:04:32 PM
The Ethiopian government on Thursday accused Tigrayan rebels of lacking any interest in peace talks to try to end the devastating 21-month war in the north of the country.
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World
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Africa
8/17/2022 8:28:59 PM
The head of the World Health Organization described the persistent crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region as ``the worst disaster on Earth'' and wondered aloud Wednesday if the reason global leaders have not responded was due to ``the color of the skin of the people in Tigray.''
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World
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International
8/10/2022 9:20:39 PM
Since May, nearly 90 countries have reported more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox.
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World
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International
6/29/2022 6:55:32 PM
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the US Supreme Court's ruling ending the nationwide right to abortion risked having a detrimental impact far beyond the United States.
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