COLOMBO (Reuters) – An outbreak of dengue virus has killed around 300 people so far this year in Sri Lanka and hospitals are stretched to capacity, health officials said on Monday. They blamed recent monsoon rains and floods that have left pools of stagnant water and rotting rain-soaked trash — ideal breeding sites for mosquitoes […]
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – The parents of Charlie Gard tearfully gave up their legal battle to keep their terminally ill baby alive on Monday, saying his condition had deteriorated too far for any possible recovery, in a case they said had touched the world. The parents said their 11-month-old son might have been […]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Publisher Penguin on Monday pulled a book about Nelson Mandela off the shelves after the widow and family of South Africa’s former president complained that the doctor who wrote the book had not been given permission to do so, local media said. Mandela, who led the country out of apartheid in 1994, […]
By Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) – Flooding across large parts of Myanmar has displaced more than 100,000 people, causing two deaths, while dramatic riverbank erosion has washed away a Buddhist pagoda, officials, residents and state media said on Monday. Water levels have risen steadily since unrelenting monsoon rain began to lash the heart of the […]
By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) – Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small medical clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Saturday, their first facility there since the American airstrikes that destroyed a hospital in 2015. “The opening of this clinic is the first step toward providing more medical assistance in Kunduz,” Silvia Dallatomasina, head of programs […]
By Dominic Evans GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) – Wearing chemical suits and gasmasks, Syrian doctors rush to a house where white smoke wafts over a group of people choking and coughing, some calling out for help. It is a training exercise but the scenario is all too real for many of the doctors, who treated victims […]
By Samia Nakhoul and Nick Tattersall JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A source close to Saudi Arabia’s rulers has given further details of how Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince, was summarily removed from his post last month. MbN, as he is known, was dismissed by the royal family “in the higher interests of […]
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday called on his supporters to “kick and punish” groups of people he accused of committing acts of political violence in the name of his ruling ZANU-PF party. The 93-year-old leader’s comments could fuel political violence in the ZANU-PF party as the southern African nation gears up […]
By Dan Williams GOOD NEIGHBOUR ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER, Golan Heights (Reuters) – Israel has shifted from low-key humanitarian aid for Syrian civil war victims into a hearts-and-minds campaign billed as fostering new friends across a frontier that has been hostile for decades. Under a year-old expanded relief project disclosed to media this week, groups of Syrians […]
