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The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief said on Saturday he had arrived in Spain and would join government officials to oversee the disembarkation of a hantavirus-hit cruise ship in the Canary Islan...
Under the bleachers of a West Bank stadium, a dozen men from Gaza live in a former changing room, blocked from returning home by the war that erupted more than two-and-a-half years ago.
Among those st...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that his soldiers in Ukraine were fighting an βaggressive forceβ backed by all of Nato and described his war goals as βjustβ, in a combative a...
Russia began its annual Victory Day parade on Red Square Saturday, with events set to be scaled back amid security fears and signs of fatigue over the more than four-year Ukraine war.
Both Russia and ...
The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of previously secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) β some as far back as the 1940s β a move sought for de...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) insisted on Friday that there is a minimal risk from the hantavirus to the general public, as countries prepared to repatriate passengers stuck on a cruise ship hit...
Three hikers, including two foreigners, died and 10 were missing after Mount Dukono on Indonesiaβs eastern Halmahera island erupted on Friday, spewing an ash cloud about 10 kilometres into the air, ...
Bangladeshβs deadliest measles outbreak in decades is stretching its health system, with children filling hospital wards and doctors struggling to contain a surge in infections that have killed more...
Donald Trump is poised to be the first US president visiting China in almost a decade, but an uneasy trade truce and tensions over Iran and Taiwan loom over his trip next week.
All eyes will be on Tru...
As evening falls in Fiji's capital, a steady stream of people approaches a makeshift clinic that is a first line of defence against one of the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemics.
In the South PacοΏ½...
