The waiting room outside the hepatology clinic at Rajagiri Hospital in Kochi is suspended between hope and despair. One man stares silently at the floor, weakened by advanced liver disease and in urgent need of treatment. Nearby, another family clutches a folder of old medical reports, hoping the hospital can still save their loved one. […]
Continue ReadingA country club in the town of Caraballeda in Venezuela has been turned into a makeshift hospital, with survivors of the country’s devastating earthquakes receiving care and sleeping on mattresses on the grass. Helicopters carrying aid have landed at the improvised hospital and those who lost their homes during the quake are being provided with […]
Continue ReadingEurope’s unprecedented early summer heatwave may be responsible for hundreds of excess deaths, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). Temperature records were broken across the continent again on Sunday – including in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic – as the extreme heat continued to move east. In a post on […]
Continue ReadingThree firefighters were killed and two were injured while battling massive wildfires on the Colorado-Utah border on Saturday, officials say. The firefighters were part of a federal response team assigned to the Knowles and Gore fires. They were suddenly overwhelmed by flames and tried to take shelter, the Department of the Interior said. The two […]
Continue ReadingFourteen people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia, state media reported on Sunday. The helicopter, belonging to state oil giant Aramco, crashed in the eastern coastal city of Ras Tanura at 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) killing all those on board, according to the Saudi Press Agency. All 14 victims were Saudi […]
Continue ReadingAn Australian man has been charged with murder after the body of a 17-year-old girl was found in a suitcase in Thailand, local and Australian media report. Police in the coastal city of Pattaya said they had found the teenager “stuffed” in the bag, which had been discarded near a railway track, in the early […]
Continue ReadingEleven people have died after a civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in the town of Tomblaine in eastern France, local authorities said. The pilot and 10 passengers died in the incident, including five students and five instructors, local officials said. The plane, which was being used by a parachutist school, had taken off from Nancy-Essey […]
Continue ReadingColumbia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) said Moises was buried under about 3m (9.8ft) of debris, and the rescue team spent six hours conducting “high-precision work” on Saturday to reach him. Reuters reported that a rescuer was overheard on a walkie-talkie saying the young boy was found near his sister and mother, who […]
Continue ReadingUganda’s leading independent media group says it is under “military siege” after the army chief – who is the son of President Yoweri Museveni – ordered the closure of TV stations, newspapers and radio outlets. The Daily Monitor newspaper said that armed soldiers were stationed outside its headquarters in the capital Kampala and both NTV […]
Continue ReadingThe US has conducted new strikes on Iran, following a drone attack on a Panama-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. US Central Command (Centcom) said it hit multiple targets across Iran in direct response to “continued aggression” against commercial shipping. In retaliation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has launched […]
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