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Indonesian rescuers race to find 12 missing after eruption
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» AGAM (INDONESIA) - Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers were racing Tuesday to find a dozen hikers who went missing after a volcano eruption killed 11 people.
Medical tourism in spotlight after Mexico kidnapping
AFP, Published on 09/03/2023
» WASHINGTON: As reports swirl around the recent kidnapping in Mexico of four Americans, two of whom were killed, one detail has drawn particular attention -- they had crossed the border for a medical procedure.
Dentist puts teeth into ambulance care
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/06/2022
» On the way to and from his dental clinic every day, Dr Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan was appalled by an all-too-common sight: severely injured and dead Somalis being transported to hospitals in wooden hand carts or wheelbarrows.
Brazil's Bolsonaro in hospital, may need surgery: govt
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» BRASíLIA - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is suffering from an "intestinal obstruction," the government said on Wednesday, after the far-right leader was admitted to hospital due to persistent hiccups.
In Brazil, dentists give battered women a new life
AFP, Published on 13/11/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Ana Claudia Rocha Ferreira suffered domestic abuse at the hands of multiple partners, dating back to when she was just 15 years old. The violence took a mental and physical toll.
Future unclear for Macau's abandoned greyhounds
AFP, Published on 11/08/2018
» MACAU: Fears for more than 500 greyhounds cooped up at a shuttered racetrack in Macau have been reignited after a plan to rehouse them hit red tape.
Creaking Afghan hospital symbol of foreign aid failure
AFP, Published on 04/10/2016
» SALANG (AFGHANISTAN) - Hunched low over a hernia patient on a broken operating table, an Afghan surgeon bemoans the lack of life-saving equipment in a US-funded hospital that is crumbling into disrepair, exemplifying the eye-watering waste of aid dollars.
Air strike hits clinic in rebel area of Syria's Aleppo
AFP, Published on 29/04/2016
» ALEPPO (SYRIA) - An air strike hit a clinic in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Friday, the civil defence said, the second time this week a medical facility in Syria's second city has been hit.
Zimbabwe hunter given bail over death of Cecil the lion
AFP, Published on 30/07/2015
» HWANGE (ZIMBABWE) - A professional Zimbabwean hunter was granted bail Wednesday on charges of "failing to prevent an illegal hunt" after he organised an expedition in which an American dentist killed a lion popular with tourists.
India's street dentists filling gap for the poor
AFP, Published on 22/05/2015
» BANGALORE (INDIA) - Ignoring noisy buses and curious onlookers, street dentist Allah Baksh plunges his hands into a patient's mouth to fit a sparkling set of dentures for $12 in the Indian city of Bangalore.