The World Health Organization on Friday published for the first time directives to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of infertility, which affects millions across the globe. “One in six people worldwide experience infertility...
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Passengers faced an uncomfortable wait for their flights at one of the world’s busiest airports on Friday, with up to 70 percent of toilets at Tokyo Haneda’s Terminal 2 reportedly blocked. A spokesman for the airport operator confirmed...
Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities on Friday raided the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s powerful chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, searches that come as a massive graft scandal embroils Kyiv. Investigators...
The death toll from floods across southern Thailand has risen to 145, with more than 100 people killed in hard-hit Songkhla province alone, the government said on Friday. Devastating flooding has overwhelmed southern Thailand this week, particularly...
The death toll from Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades rose to 128 on Friday, as authorities arrested eight more people and outlined how malfunctioning fire alarms and flammable construction materials led to the tragedy. Families scoured...
Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona has won re-election in his northern constituency, according to media reports. Uunona, who has long acknowledged the controversy around his name, said he is removing “Hitler” from his official identity...
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the death of one of two National Guard soldiers shot near the White House, as his government said it would respond by reviewing the permanent residency status of immigrants from 19 countries, including...
A Colombian army general and an intelligence chief were suspended on Thursday following allegations they leaked sensitive information to a guerrilla leader, the attorney general’s office said. The Caracol TV network on Sunday published...
Negotiations are under way to ensure safe passage for dozens of Hamas fighters holed up in tunnels in southern Gaza, multiple sources close to the talks told AFP on Thursday. Israeli media has reported that for weeks, between 100 and 200 Hamas...
The man suspected of shooting two National Guard soldiers near the White House on Wednesday was an Afghan national who worked alongside US forces in Afghanistan, US officials say. Washington has labeled the violence an “act of terror”...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he would end his Ukraine offensive if Kyiv withdrew from territory Moscow claims at its own — otherwise his army would take it by force. The Russian army has been slowly but steadily grinding...
Iran on Thursday denounced Australia’s decision to designate the Revolutionary Guards a terror-sponsoring group, as relations between Canberra and Tehran took another downward turn. In August, Australia blamed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
A US death row inmate who developed dementia during his 37 years on death row has died in custody, apparently of natural causes, prison authorities said. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was sentenced to death for the 1986 kidnapping and murder of a mother...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday praised US President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II. “There is tremendous renewed energy around the peace process, and...
Net migration to the UK dropped by 69 percent to 204,000 in the year to June, official figures showed on Thursday, in a much-needed boost to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The continued downward trend comes as Starmer’s centre-left Labour...