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At least eight people died following torrential rains which caused immense flooding in the eastern US state of Kentucky, its governor announced on Thursday, fearing that the toll could rise further. “We are witnessing one of the worst and most devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky’s history,” Gov. Andy Beshear said. …

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden had a two-hour “sincere and in-depth” meeting on Thursday, during which the Chinese president warned his American counterpart not to “play with fire” about Taiwan, Chinese state media reported. “Those who play with fire end up getting burned,” Xi told Biden, as quoted by the …

U.S. health officials announced Wednesday that soil and water samples taken from Mississippi contain bacteria that cause a rare but serious disease called melioidosis. They thus alerted doctors in the country, asking them to be vigilant in the face of possible symptoms of this disease in patients. Two individuals living …

US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that he plans to speak with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov soon, for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February. This telephone interview, scheduled “in the coming days (…) will not be a negotiation about Ukraine”, said …

New York City on Tuesday asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to rename monkeypox, a name deemed stigmatizing and which risks pushing patients to isolate themselves rather than to seek treatment. New York City Health Commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, in a letter to WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said …

Former US President Donald Trump returns to Washington on Tuesday, a first since his departure from the White House in 2021 and the chaos of the assault on the Capitol. The billionaire, who is flirting more and more openly with the idea of running for president in 2024, will speak …

North Korea on Sunday accused the United States of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing an accusation already made by Russia and dismissed by the United Nations in March. Washington has “installed numerous biological laboratories in dozens of countries and regions, including Ukraine, in defiance of international treaties”, the official …

Two Americans died in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, where the war is raging between Kyiv forces and those of Moscow, confirmed this Saturday the State Department, without specifying whether it was lots of fighters. “We can confirm the recent deaths of two US citizens in Ukraine’s Donbass region bordering …

The United States recorded its first case of polio on Thursday for almost a decade, according to New York State health authorities. A person residing in the county of Rockland, 48 km north of Manhattan, tested positive for the disease, his case indicating “a chain of transmission coming from an …

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the White House announced. However, he only shows “mild symptoms” of the disease. The 79-year-old Democrat has “started taking Paxlovid”, Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill, and will isolate himself at the White House until he tests negative again, his spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre …