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Equatorial Guinea announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said in a statement Monday. The small central African nation of about 1.6 million people reported nine deaths and 16 more suspected cases after a sample sent to a laboratory in Senegal on February […]

SYDNEY — Thousands of refugees across Australia who have lived on temporary visas for years will be eligible to permanently stay under new rules, starting Monday. Australia has, however, reiterated its support for controversial border protection measures. Around 19,000 people who arrived in Australia before the start of Operation Sovereign Borders in 2013 will be covered […]

The British defense ministry said Sunday that over the past two weeks, Russia has likely suffered its highest rate of casualties since the first week of its invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago. The ministry’s observation is based on Ukrainian data that Russia averaged 824 casualties a day over the last week, more than […]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that he order a U.S. warplane shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over northern Canada, acting a day after U.S. planes took similar action over Alaska. Shortly before Trudeau’s tweet, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said it had detected an object flying at […]

China on Friday dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Beijing over a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down above U.S. waters as “purely political manipulation and hyping up.” “China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters at a daily briefing. “The resolution by the […]

Malawi is experiencing the deadliest cholera outbreak in its history, say World Health Organization officials, who note that the disease has left more than 1,200 people dead and nearly 37,000 others infected since March of last year. The U.N. released a statement Thursday as an update on the situation. Cholera is an “acute enteric infection […]

The prospect of rescuing more people in Turkey and Syria trapped under the rubble of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake are dwindling, but Friday, four days after the tremblor, several survivors were pulled from the ruins in Hatay province in Turkey’s south. Officials say the death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck the border region […]

European Union leaders welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a standing ovation Thursday as he pleaded for fighter jets to fend off Russia’s nearly year-long invasion and pushed for European Union membership for his war-torn country. “A Ukraine that is winning is going to be member of the European Union,” Zelenskyy told the European Parliament […]