Trump pushes rethink of school vaccine mandates and MMR shots
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday pushing for a rethink of school vaccine mandates and repeating calls for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to be separated into three individual shots. Curbing vaccines has been a key…
Canada flight cancelled after child refuses to wear seat belt
The cancellation of a flight in Canada after a child refused to wear a seat belt has reignited a debate about the etiquette and safety procedures relating to children travelling on planes. The Porter Airlines flight, which was preparing to depart from…
Ebola started 3 months earlier than official declaration – Eye on Africa
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Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots
President Donald Trump has signed an order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines and also recommends splitting the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) shots. «Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today,» Trump said…
Russia bars only anti-war party ‘Yabloko’ from September parliamentary elections
The court thereby upheld a suit brought by a pro-Kremlin nationalist party, stripping voters opposed to the four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine of their last option on the ballot. «The claims seeking to annul the registration of the federal list of…
New train service connects Finland and Sweden for first time in decades
Finland uses the same track widths as Russia, which are wider than the European standard – a holdover from when the Nordic nation was part of the Russian Grand Duchy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is currently in the process of updating…
Tensions in the Arctic: Greenland issues sharp rebuke to Trump-linked oil company
A Texas oil company that wants to extract what could amount to billions of barrels of oil from East Greenland’s Arctic basin has crossed a red line before even starting to drill. In a statement issued on July 30, Greenland’s mineral resources…
‘Total incinerated destruction’: Canada wildfire evacuees wonder if they still have homes
The Bald Range wildfire comes on the heels of another fire in the Okanagan, called Bradley Creek, which is believed to have destroyed more than 200 homes. Officials said the Bradley Creek fire is now being held after «tireless work» by wildfire crews to…
In Malaysia, wave of hate speech threatens Rohingya refugees
Malaysia has long been considered a safe haven for Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. As of the end of February 2026, 126,000 Rohingyas were registered with the UN refugee agency in Malaysia, out of a total of around…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan unlikely to be final word
In July, after months of delicate negotiations, Trump announced a «major milestone» in the implementation of his plan to end Israel’s war in Gaza. Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump said that the Board of Peace had reached an agreement for…