A fisherman stands on dry sands at the confluence between the Ticino and Po River at Ponte della Becca, near Linarolo, south of Pavia on June 17, 2022. (PIERO CRUCIATTI / AFP) ROME – Italy on Monday declared a state of emergency for areas surrounding the river Po, which accounts for roughly a third of […]
A healthcare worker stands outside the emergency entrance of Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, on April 1, 2020. (LIANG SEN / XINHUA) TORONTO – Health authorities across Canada have cut the hours of hospital emergency departments and urgent care clinics in recent weeks, a move that in some cases may extend through the summer, […]
In this file photo taken on Nov 16, 2020, an Ethiopian refugee child who fled fighting in Tigray province, sleeps in a hut at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state. (EBRAHIM HAMID / AFP) NAIROBI – The World Health Organization said Thursday it's intensifying its operations to the looming health crisis in […]
Indigenous people and peasants burn tires and wicker baskets at a blockade in Cutuglagua neighborhood, southern Quito, on June 19, 2022 as they wait for the arrival of their comrades who are mobilizing from the Province of Cotopaxi. (CRISTINA VEGA RHOR / AFP) QUITO – Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday declared a 30-day state […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) – A group of protesters calling for radical action to cut Australia’s carbon emissions shut one of Sydney’s major roads on Monday (June 27) morning, the beginning of what they’ve said will be a “week of resistance” in the country’s biggest city. More than 100 demonstrators from the climate protest group Blockade […]
In this photo provided by the Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica del ISCIII in Madrid, on May 26, 2022, an electronic microscope image shows the monkeypox virus seen by a team from the Arbovirus Laboratory and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Units of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid. (UNIDAD DE MICROSCOPÍA ELECTRÓNICA DEL ISCIII, […]
In this file handout photo taken on June 22, 2022 made available by the UK Health Security Agency shows a collage of monkeypox rash lesions at an undisclosed date and location. (HANDOUT / UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY / AFP) LONDON – The World Health Organization will decide on Thursday whether to declare monkeypox a global […]