The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided emergency assistance, in an urgent response to the needs of communities affected by floods in Yemen, the...
Following heavy widespread rains in Yemen, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remains on high alert as the threat of desert locust emergence looms, the...
Monkeypox infections continue to rise globally, with more than 35,000 cases across 92 countries and territories, and 12 deaths, the head of the World...
Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria completes mission to northeast
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Imran Riza, on Wednesday concluded a four-day mission to the northeast, where he visited camps hosting...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday highlighted the need to support millions facing starvation and disease in the Horn of...
Secretary-General António Guterres arrived on Wednesday to Lviv, the largest city in Western Ukraine. Read the full story, “UN chief pays second call on...
The first known monkeypox infection in a pet dog hints at spillover risk
The first recorded case of person passing monkeypox to a dog could be harbinger of other animals catching the sometimes disfiguring and deadly virus....
Sri Lanka is in the midst of the worst socio-economic crisis in its history, and the once robust health-care system is nearing collapse, with...
Rushdie Joins 102 International Writers to Demand Freedom of Expression in India
Lucknow, Aug 17 (IPS) – On the eve of India’s 76th Independence Day, the president of the country, Droupadi Murmu, received a letter signed...
Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study suggests
Protons may be intrinsically charming. The subatomic particles are a mash-up of three lighter particles called quarks: two of the type known as up...
WHO Announces New Ebola Vaccine Guidelines for the DRC 
Nepalese Experts, Victims Contemplate the Future After the Flood 
Africa’s Rangelands Are the Frontline of Resilience – COP17 Showed Why 
Was the ‘American cheetah’ a cheetah at all?