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At least 15 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek’s Lesbos

October 6, 2022

Migrants sit on the deck of a coast guard vessel upon their arrival at Mytilene port, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece on June 22, 2022. (PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS / AP) ATHENS – At least 15 people died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos...

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CDC: Some 3.2m Americans got updated COVID jabs last week

September 30, 2022

A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Manhattan in New York City, New York, US, on Jan 29, 2021. (MIKE SEGAR / REUTERS) New York / HELSINKI / MOSCOW...

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US study: COVID-19 raises risk of long-term brain injury

September 23, 2022

Medical workers treat patients in the COVID-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on Jan 11, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP) CHICAGO / GENEVA / SANTIAGO - People who had COVID-19 are at higher risk for a...

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EMA:Take whatever COVID-19 booster you can get

September 15, 2022

This file photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows the entrance of the European Medicines Agency headquarters in Amsterdam. (FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS / AFP) People in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster is available to them in the coming months, Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, said in...

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UN report: Modern slavery on the rise as crises fuel poverty

September 12, 2022

A former worker of Japanese company Furukawa takes pafrt in a protest against alleged modern slavery outside the Ombudsman Office in Quito, Ecuador on Dec 2, 2021, on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. (RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP) GENEVA - The number of people forced to work or...

International

UK’s new PM faces 80s playlist: recession, unrest, inflation

September 2, 2022

Contender to become the country's next Prime minister and leader of the Conservative party British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss cheers prior to the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final football match between England and Germany at the Wembley stadium, in London, on July 31, 2022. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) RUNCORN, England...

International

Climate, conflicts raise stakes in hungry world

September 2, 2022

Food concerns deepen as 345m face acute shortages in UN famine warning This Nov 19, 2018 photo shows 10 year-old Ghazi Saleh lying on a bed at Al-Mudhafar hospital in Taez, Yemen.(MARZOOQ AL-JABIRY / AFP) Millions of people struggling for food every day are seeing their hopes dimmed by soaring...

International

Virus’ shadow keeps millions jobless in US

August 30, 2022

Long COVID extends pandemic's effect, with $170b in lost wages, report finds Between 2 and 4 million people in the United States can't work because of the long-term debilitating effects of COVID-19, costing the economy up to $170 billion a year in lost wages, according to a report. The report...

International

Swiss regulator approves first bivalent COVID-19 booster

August 29, 2022

This file photo taken on April 20, 2021 shows Moderna vials on a table at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Bridgeport, Connecticut. MOGADISHU / BERLIN - Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Monday that it has approved the first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine in the country. Moderna's Spikevax vaccine, which contains...

International

Trudeau condemns verbal abuse directed at Canada’s deputy PM

August 29, 2022

In this file photo dated Oct 26, 2021, Canada's deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Canada. (LARS HAGBERG / AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday condemned an abusive verbal attack on his deputy prime minister and finance minister,...

International

Somalia, UN to boost COVID vaccination amid drought

August 29, 2022

In this file photo dated March 15, 2021, boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / FILE / AP) MOGADISHU - Somalia and two agencies of the United...

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Climate change official: Pakistan floods affected over 30m people

August 27, 2022

People navigate through flooded roads after heavy monsoon rains, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Aug 24, 2022. (PERVEZ MASIH / AP) KARACHI, Pakistan - Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country's climate change minister said on Thursday, calling...

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Eisai Inc. Collaborates with C2N to Build Awareness and Real-World Evidence for Blood-based Assays

August 24, 2022

TOKYO, Aug 24, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. has entered into a memorandum of understanding with C2N Diagnostics ("C2N") that will seek to build awareness about how blood-based assays in the diagnosis for people living with cognitive...

International

At least 21 killed in Somalia hotel siege, many hostages freed

August 22, 2022

The damaged structure of the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu is seen on August 21, 2022. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU - Security forces have ended a siege by al Qaeda-linked militants at a hotel in Somalia's capital in which more than 20 people were killed and dozens injured, authorities...

International

At least five people killed, 100 hurt in Somaliland protests

August 12, 2022

A general view of the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, on Sept 18, 2021. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) MOGADISHU - At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said...

International

Entwined struggles against racism inspire hope

August 12, 2022

People of African and Asian origins have long shared a cause in a hostile US Expressions of solidarity between minority groups, such as at this rally in Chicago in March last year, have been growing. (SHAFKAT ANOWAR / AP) Helen Zia's childhood memories of events on Aug 28, 1963, have...

International

UN: Humanitarians aim to feed 16m in drought-stricken Ethiopia

August 9, 2022

Children stand at a food distribution site in the town of Adi Mehameday, in the western Tigray region of Ethiopia, May 28, 2022. (CLAIRE NEVILL / WFP VIA AP) UNITED NATIONS - Humanitarians in Ethiopia are targeting more than 16 million people for drought aid while more than 1.7 million...

International

UN renews warnings over possible food shortage in Sudan

August 4, 2022

Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in the Tigray region transport building materials using a donkey-pulled cart, at Umm Rakuba camp in eastern Sudan's Gedaref State, on Aug 11, 2021. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) KHARTOUM - The United Nations on Wednesday renewed its warnings over possible food shortage in Sudan...

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Senegal kicks off legislative elections

August 1, 2022

People stand in line outside a voting station in Ziguinchor on July 31, 2022. (MUHAMADOU BITTAYE / AFP) DAKAR - Senegal kicked off legislative elections at 8 am Sunday (local time and GMT) to elect 165 new deputies to the National Assembly for a five-year term across national territory and...

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Pope apologizes for ‘deplorable evil’ of Canadian indigenous schools

July 26, 2022

People listen to Pope Francis issue a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada on July 25, 2022. (TED SHAFFREY / AP PHOTO) MASKWACIS – Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land...