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Jul 19

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News Wrap: Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s cities kills scores of civilians

In our news wrap Tuesday, Russia targets Ukraine's cities killing scores of civilians, Russian President Putin meets with Iran's leaders amid sanctions, the WHO issued new warnings about super-infectious COVID subvariants, a CDC panel is considering who should receive a…

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Jul 01

Watch 4:25
News Wrap: Barrage of Russian missiles kills 21 in southern Ukraine

In our news wrap Friday, Russian missiles pounded a coastal town in southern Ukraine killing at least 21 people including two children, the trial for U.S. women's basketball star Brittney Griner began outside Moscow, at least 19 people in northeastern…

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Jul 01

African officials treating monkeypox spread as an emergency, call for equitable vaccine distribution

By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press

Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak here as an emergency and call on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines.

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Jun 29

WHO chief says U.S. abortion ruling is ‘a setback’ and will cost lives

By Associated Press

The head of the World Health Organization has criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would…

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Jun 23

WHO considers declaring growing monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency.

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May 30

WHO’s top monkeypox expert says disease unlikely to become global pandemic

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether…

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May 27

WHO calls monkeypox outbreaks containable, proposes stockpile to share vaccines and treatment

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable."…

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May 26

WHO says COVID-19 cases are falling globally, except in the Americas

By Associated Press

In its latest weekly assessment, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3 percent and 11 percent respectively.

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May 23

What you need to know about monkeypox and how it spreads

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases of monkeypox, a surprising outbreak of an illness that has previously been limited mostly to central and western Africa.

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May 22

COVID-19 pandemic ‘not over’ with nearly 1 billion unvaccinated globally, WHO chief says

By Associated Press

In a weekly report Thursday on the global situation, WHO said the number of new COVID-19 cases appears to have stabilized after weeks of decline since late March, while the overall number of weekly deaths dropped.

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