Health

At least 100 people died and 150 others were injured in a fire during a mega-wedding organized in a village hall in northern Iraq, according to a “preliminary assessment” announced Wednesday by the authorities. According to emergency services, “fireworks” and “highly flammable construction materials” were at the origin of the …

Mexico confirmed this Wednesday its desire to decriminalize abortion nationally, two years after a first decision by the Supreme Court, going against the grain of its neighbor, the United States. On September 7, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court had already ruled that the criminalization of abortion was unconstitutional. In doing …

Schools in several US states have been forced to close in recent days due to a high number of coronavirus cases but also because of other viruses, such as the flu. All classes scheduled to take place Tuesday and Wednesday at schools in the Lee County, Ky., district have been …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the situation of children facing the cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 8,000 children under the age of five have been infected with cholera in the first seven months of the year in the troubled province of …

Government in New Zealand announced the lifting on Tuesday of all remaining measures relating to the fight against Covid-19, more than three years after they were first implemented, Reuters reported. New Zealand was one of the countries with the most severe and long-lasting restrictions in the world. It had adopted …

More than 100,000 unaware individuals in Ghana are carrying HIV virus, according to a statement from the Ghana Aids Commission. Shockingly, these carriers are completely unaware of their status, contributing to the inadvertent spread of the disease. Dr. Kyeremeh Atuahene, the Director General of the Commission, disclosed this alarming information …

Australian police on Tuesday announced the indictment of a former childcare worker, for the sexual assault of 91 children, in what authorities have described as one of the “most horrific” child abuse cases in history that the country has known. The assaults took place in ten different child care centers …

Chad is making great strides in terms of surgery as a medical team from the Mother and Child Hospital successfully performed an operation on Siamese twins. “We’ve dealt with fake Siamese twins before. That is, one of the Siamese twins is not complete and lives at the expense of the …

150 students of Nakanyonyi Senior Secondary School have been taken to hospital over suspected food poisoning in Nagalama, Uganda, according to reports. “The students had supper before they started complaining about stomachache and developed diarrhea,” a teacher said. “They were given tablets but the situation became worse as some of …

Nigeria is gearing up to stop the spread of anthrax after cases were reported at a livestock farm north-west of the capital, Abuja. The outbreak was confirmed by the agricultural ministry after symptoms of the disease were discovered at a farm in Gajiri, along the Abuja-Kaduna motorway, in Niger state. …