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UK health outcomes a 'serious concern': report
AFP, Published on 26/06/2023
» LONDON - The UK's performance on key health metrics is a "serious concern" and lags comparable countries, according to a report released to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS).
Inside the wait for refugee status
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» For the past eight years, Ahmed Mohamed Aden has been trying to reunite with the sons he left behind when he fled Somalia.
Nonbinary airline passengers ask: What’s gender got to do with it?
New York Times, Published on 25/06/2022
» In late May, chef Silver Cousler flew to Miami from Asheville, North Carolina, to have a “last hurrah” party before getting married and a new restaurant opening. While booking the flight, Cousler, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they,” felt like they had “a split-personality disorder” when the Delta Air Lines website required them to choose either “male” or “female.”
Singapore to give out virus-tracing devices
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/06/2020
» Singapore expects to deliver the first batch of portable contact tracing devices to people in the latter half of this month as the country looks to progressively introduce this method to tackle the spread of coronavirus.
Splendid isolation: islands prove safe ports in virus storm
AFP, Published on 07/05/2020
» AYIA NAPA, Cyprus: Enjoying the loosening of a six-week coronavirus lockdown in Cyprus, Michalis Eveledis charged across pristine white sand and plunged headlong into the cool Mediterranean under a glaring sun.
Airlines cut flights, face ruin as central banks take action: Virus update
Published on 16/03/2020
» Asian stocks and US stock futures tumbled as central banks took sweeping action to blunt the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Italy’s government will meet Monday to pass a new package of measures after deaths jumped by 368 Sunday.
Cases top 90,000, new drugs to come ‘in months’: Virus update
Published on 03/03/2020
» Governments from Japan to the UK prepared emergency measures or economic packages to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Drugmakers said they hope to have antiviral treatments ready within months and vaccines by next year.
Cases spike outside China, 5 dead in Italy: Virus update
Published on 24/02/2020
» China retracted an earlier quarantine easing order in Wuhan as the coronavirus spread further in Asia and the Middle East, raising concerns about the prospect of a global pandemic.
Pariah ship heads to Cambodia, deaths hit 1,115: Virus update
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/02/2020
» The impact of the coronavirus continues to spread, as Japan found new infections on a cruise ship while a major bank in Singapore evacuated 300 employees from an office floor after a worker tested positive.
Thousands surrender, flee last IS 'caliphate' stronghold
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» NEAR BAGHOUZ, SYRIA: Civilians streamed out of the Islamic State group's last Syrian stronghold Tuesday into territory held by US-backed forces battling to finish off the jihadists' dying "caliphate".