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The United States said on Tuesday that 104% duties on imports from China will take effect shortly after midnight, even as the Trump administration moved to quickly start talks with other trading partners targeted by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan. U.S. stocks retreated on the news. Global markets had previously posted gains on hopes…
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The government of Argentina announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. The presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni told a press conference that President Javier Milei “instructed Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein to withdraw Argentina’s participation in the World Health Organization.” “Argentines are not going to allow an international organization to intervene in our…
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Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon this week seriously disrupted its fragile health sector, the World Health Organization chief said today. The United Nations health agency cited the 37 people killed and more than 3,000 injured, according to Lebanese health authorities’ toll, in the pager blasts that detonated in areas considered strongholds of the anti-Israel…
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Vietnam’s southern hub Ho Chi Minh City has declared a measles outbreak amid surging infection cases and three fatalities, local media reported. This is the first time the city has declared a measles outbreak. The city will launch a campaign to supplement measles vaccination for all local children aged one to five, regardless of previous…
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More than 17,000 people – mostly women and children – have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Intense urban fighting raged in and around the Gaza Strip’s largest cities on Friday, as the death toll continues to rise. After the first phase of its ground offensive in northern Gaza, Israel’s army extended operations southwards…
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Plans to evacuate three hospitals in Gaza are under way, the World Health Organisation has said. Al Shifa, Indonesian Hospital and al Ahli Hospital requested the assistance, asking for help evacuating patients, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said. It comes after Gaza’s Hamas-led health ministry reported at least 12 people had been killed and dozens wounded…
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Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, have released a statement condemning what it claims was a “deliberate attack” on one of its humanitarian convoys inside Gaza that resulted in one person being killed. “On 18 November 2023, an MSF staff member’s relative died and another one was injured in an attack…
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A bit more on our 4.30am post to bring you now. A team of UN and WHO experts conducted a “high-risk operation” yesterday to get inside al Shifa hospital, despite heavy fighting reported to be ongoing nearby and a mass exodus of patients, doctors and other displaced people sheltering there. One evacuee described a panicked…
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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that WHO has lost touch with its staff, health facilities, health workers, and the rest of its humanitarian partners on the ground in Gaza. He called for immediate protection of all civilians and full humanitarian access. Taking to X, Ghebreyesus stated, “We have lost touch with…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday said that a plane with much-needed medical supplies for the people of the Gaza Strip had landed in Egypt. “A plane with WHO medical supplies to support the urgent health needs in Gaza has landed in Al Arish, Egypt – close to the Rafah crossing,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,…
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At least 34 attacks on health care facilities have been recorded in Gaza so far, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. As a result of the attacks, a total of 11 health worker have been killed on duty and 16 have been injured, it added. The latest official figures from the health ministry in…
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In the wake of devastating floods in eastern Libya, the World Health Organization (WHO) is focusing on identifying diseases and preventing outbreaks, said Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the global body. Outlining the key health concerns and priorities in the region, Harris said the primary concern is the urgent need for access to clean water.…
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Body bags and emergency surgery kits arrive in Libya Body bags have arrived in Libya donated by the World Health Organisation, after it urged the government to cease mass burials. Yesterday, the WHO called for better-managed burials in well-demarcated and documented individual graves to prevent long-lasting mental distress for family members. A total of 29…
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Half of the world population is at risk of contracting the mosquito-borne dengue virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s unit head on tropical diseases, told a UN press briefing in Geneva that WHO recorded an eightfold increase in dengue cases between years 2000-2022, increasing from 500,000 cases to 4.2…
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The extreme heat in the northern hemisphere is putting an increasing strain on healthcare systems, hitting hardest those least able to manage its consequences, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. “Extreme heat puts increased pressure on health systems. Exposure to excessive heat has wide-ranging impacts on health, often amplifying existing conditions and resulting in…
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Fang Bin, who documented the initial Covid outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has been freed from jail after three years, sources told the BBC. Mr Fang is one of several so-called citizen journalists who disappeared after sharing videos of scenes in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic. After disappearing in February 2020, he…
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