More than 200 people sought medical help and 63 were hospitalised due to intestinal infection in Baksan, a town in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, local media reported. Among the hospitalised, 56 are children and they are in moderate conditions, the prosecutor’s office of the region said. A criminal case has been opened in Kabardino-Balkaria under the…
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday updated detection, tracing, isolation, and vaccination measures to prevent the mpox Clade I infection. “Medical practitioners and healthcare institutions should be vigilant in detecting and reporting mpox cases. “Close contacts of a confirmed Clade I case will be quarantined in a designated government facility for 21 days,” MOH…
Pope Francis on Wednesday called for increased interfaith dialogue during his visit to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country. The 87-year-old head of the Catholic Church stressed the need to “foster a peaceful and fruitful harmony” and increase interreligious dialogue to address “imbalances and suffering,” at a meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in…
Gov Uba Sani of Kaduna says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigerian and Chinese government will further advance transparency and effective public service delivery. Sani disclosed this while briefing Journalists in view of the official signing of MoUs by President Bola Tinubu and President Xi Jinping, on the sideline of the…
Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv overnight killed at least seven people, including children, and injured at least 38 people, regional officials said on Wednesday. Lviv Mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, said that the three of the dead were children. In some areas in northern Ukraine, the air alert was still sounding at 8:30 a.m….
The death toll from floods and landslides caused by typhoon Yagi has reached 16 in the Philippines, with 21 reported missing, the national disaster agency and police said Wednesday. The disaster management disclosed that 15 people were injured and more than 1.7 million people were affected by the bad weather in 26 provinces and the…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, is also leaving his post as part of a major government reshuffle after two and a half years of war. The 43-year-old career diplomat took over the Foreign Ministry in 2020, before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Parliamentary Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk on Wednesday posted a photograph on his Facebook…
German police conducted raids on multiple properties across the country on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a suspected people smuggling network. Authorities targeted 19 locations across several German states, including Thuringia, Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt, with a focus on the city of Jena in Thuringia. Five arrest warrants were executed for…
President Bola Tinubu and Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Tuesday in Beijing, China, pledged to further strengthen the relationship between the two countries to advance trade and economic development programmes. The two leaders also promised to elevate the Nigeria-China ties to that of a comprehensive strategic partnership, by building a high-level Nigeria-China community with a…
The Greee Climate Fund has approved 151 million dollars in financing for a major resilience programme supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The aim is to address climate vulnerability in the Horn of Africa. The AfDB’s Director for Agriculture and Agro-Industry, Dr Martin Fregene, said this in a statement posted on the bank”s website….
