Category: World

The owner of a company that produced and sold renewable fuel and fuel credits was sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release, and to pay $2,857,029 in restitution and a $150,000 fine, for his role in a scheme that generated over $7 million in fraudulent Environmental Protection […]

The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, respectively in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, remind us that the next health crisis is never far away. They also illustrate the World Health Organization’s key role in global coordination and the importance of international cooperation for more […]

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana upheld the Forest Service’s Mud Creek Project in the Bitterroot National Forest in southwest Montana. Continuing over the course of several years, the project will reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire affecting nearby communities through prescribed burns and other noncommercial fuel reduction treatments and […]

It’s no accident that we spend a third of our lives asleep. It is essential to our health, and even animals for whom resting is complicated – such as aquatic mammals that need to surface to breathe, or birds that go up to 10 days without touching dry land – manage to sleep with surprising […]

“More recoveries are expected, especially when people are diagnosed early and able to access care, and as outbreak response intensifies,” the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update on Sunday. In total, five people have recovered from the virus, the agency said, citing the case of a laboratory worker who was given the all-clear last Thursday. The […]

Yet amid the destruction, Ukraine’s second-largest city is doing something that may seem almost impossible during wartime: preparing for a better future. “We need to rebuild regardless of the war,” says Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, “because if there is no reconstruction there will be only ruins, and those who left will not return.” Kharkiv […]

Speaking in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province and the epicentre of the outbreak, Tedros said local communities must remain at the centre of the response to the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which no approved vaccine or treatment currently exists. “We are not here to tell people what to do. We are here to […]

In the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, where tents stretch across the sand and snaking queues form for water and food, Asaad Al-Azzabi prepares for a match a world away from what he once knew. Before the war, Mr. Al-Azzabi played for Al-Tajammu Club in Rafah, where he and his teammates had access to […]

According to Romanian authorities, the Russian drone entered Romanian airspace before crashing into the roof of an apartment building, sparking a fire on the 10th floor. The incident marks the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine that a Russian drone has struck a residential building inside a NATO Member State, although […]

“The experiences of the desperate parents I met this past week can illustrate this better than I could,” UNICEF Communication Specialist, Salim Oweis told journalists attending the bi-weekly humanitarian briefing at the UN in Geneva.  Among them is Hind who hasn’t slept ever since her daughter Masa, 4, was bitten by a rat during the night. They are sheltering […]