Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision repealing federal protections for abortion, some states are taking steps to impose even stricter restrictions on it or to complete ban it. Due to this, some medical professionals and patients travel beyond state lines to places where abortions are still permitted
Examining zoonotic diseases The first Marburg outbreak in Ghana is being fought off by Ghanaian health officials. The surge in outbreaks is discussed by Prof. Jimmy Whitworth of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. For safe meat cooking, Chef Mitchell offers a few tips
According to the UN refugees agency, more than 160,000 people have been displaced as a result of clashes between the army of the DemocrAccordingatic Republic of the Congo and the rebel group M23 this year
The Turkish military has intensified its bombing of Kurdish forces close to the northeast Syrian town of Tal Tamr, displacing hundreds of residents
Xu Qin, a key figure in the China Rights Observer group founded by jailed veteran dissident Qin Yongmin, is now using a wheelchair while in a police-run detention center in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, RFA has learned
United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Cyprus is presided over by Ronaldo Costa Filho (left), the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of July
There are concerns that the war’s global attention is waning more than five months after Russia began attacking Ukraine. Tennis players from Ukraine and Poland came together to support Ukraine by raising funds and awareness
Tons of electronic waste pass through the West Bank’s border with Israel every week. The copper inside the waste, which is primarily cables, is extracted by burning it, and Israel is then sold the copper. The scrapyards are the sole source of income for thousands of Palestinian households. However, the health of the residents is being severely harmed by the burning
African wildlife officials who met in Rwanda noted that urbanisation poses a threat to the continent’s biodiversity. Rwanda created its first urban ecotourism and educational park by restoring a degraded wetland in the nation’s capital to encourage wildlife conservation
Thailand has moved dozens of Uyghurs from around the kingdom to a single facility in Bangkok, a security official confirmed Wednesday, raising fears among NGOs that the government may deport them to China after three detainees escaped earlier this month