The World Health Organization opened its first summit on traditional medicine on Thursday. The two-day WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit takes place alongside a meeting of G20 health ministers in the Indian...
US President Joe Biden on Friday hailed a "new era" of unity with the leaders of South Korea and Japan as the allies unveiled new three-way security cooperation at a first-of-a-kind summit. The three...
Union Minister for Health Dr Thet Khaing Win received the resident representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Ms Elena Ajmone Sessera, and her team at the ministry in Friday morning...
France's government held a crisis meeting Thursday to discuss measures to tackle a heatwave in which temperatures could climb beyond 40 degrees Celsius this weekend.
Senior civil servants from Prime...
More than 2,400 people were killed in Haiti since the start of 2023 amid rampant gang violence, including over 350 killed in lynchings by locals and vigilante groups, the UN says. "Between January 1 and...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the wildfire crisis in the Northwest Territories, where residents are leaving after an evacuation order.
Defense...
Colombian health workers from the Clinica Meta hospital in Villavicencio evacuate patients, some in hospital beds, after a strong earthquake hit the country. A strong earthquake shook the Colombian capital Bogota...
Over a hundred protesters gather outside Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's office in Tokyo to demonstrate against Japan's plan to release wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo...
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit central Colombia on Thursday, causing one death and severe damage.
Buildings shook and sirens sounded as thousands of panicked residents poured into the streets of the capital....
UNICEF warns that a spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017.
Across the country, there have been at least...