International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan notified the court Friday he will take a leave from his duties until ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern and says neighbouring countries are at risk as it declares an outbreak of polio virus in Papua New Guinea. Community transmission of the ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

Sitting inside her fly-infested tent in Gaza City, Iman Rajab sifts clumps of flour through a sieve, over and over again. She found the half-bag of flour in a garbage dumpster. It is crawling with ...

Human rights organisation Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and ...

Polio virus has been detected in 22 out of 34 environmental samples collected from 44 districts across Pakistan, officials said on Monday. A total of 56 environmental samples were collected ...

The second national polio immunisation drive of 2025 was conducted from April 21 to 27, during which more than 45.3 million children under the age of five received oral polio vaccine drops.

Palestinian officials said the war in Gaza has killed more than 52,000 people, as Israel continues its renewed offensive on the territory after ending its ceasefire with Hamas in March.

The spread of polio in the early 1950s precipitated a nationwide health crisis. The disease infected tens of thousands, most of them children, often causing paralysis or even death. The ...

Another polio case has been confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu district, making it the third reported from the province and the eighth nationwide so far this year. The confirmation comes amid ...