Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh: The children dying in India’s remote tribal heartland
Once the outbreak was recognised, health workers began door-to-door screening in affected villages. Mobile medical units carrying oxygen, nebulisers, suction equipment, malaria tests and medicines visited more than 20 affected villages. One mobile…
Ethiopian AI expert, Timnit Gebru, wins ‘alternative Nobel’ – Eye on Africa
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Plummeting Israel flight like ‘rollercoaster’, says passenger
A passenger on board Flight FZ1073, which fell 17,000ft (5,200m) in less than two minutes when a pilot apparently stabbed his co-pilot, told the BBC about his experience. The aircraft had been flying to Israel when the incident took place, which Almog…
El Salvador sets 2027 presidential election as Nayib Bukele seeks third term
El Salvador will hold presidential elections on February 28, 2027, the electoral tribunal said Wednesday, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek a third term. El Salvador last year amended its constitution to abolish presidential term limits…
Swiss glaciers suffer ‘disastrous’ year of ice loss
One of the most ominous findings is what researchers observed at measurement sites at the highest elevations, where temperatures are lowest and glaciers are typically snow-covered. Even as high as 3,500 metres above sea level, scientists found no snow…
Russia launches major attack on Ukraine’s energy grid, causing power cuts
Russia unleashed a widely anticipated air campaign against Ukraine’s energy grid on Wednesday, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions in the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months. The strikes, in…
‘Hero’ pilot stabbed by other pilot on Israel-bound plane, Israeli PM says
No motive for the incident has been given and the pilot was under investigation in Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu told Fox News on Wednesday night, before he was expected to be taken back to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the flight took off from. Israel…
Like a ‘rollercoaster’: passengers describe harrowing flydubai flight
As flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv approached the Jordanian border on Wednesday, passengers knew in an instant that something was wrong when the plane began plummeting from the sky in a rapid dive. It was like «we were having very big turbulence,…
California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
Stodden said she would «keep fighting until children are protected from marriage in all 50 states». She was married to actor Doug Hutchison – known for roles in The Green Mile, A Time to Kill and I Am Sam – in 2011, spurring headlines…
Trump renews calls for former Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell’s resignation
The Federal Reserve‘s Inspector General on Wednesday said it found no grounds for a criminal referral or evidence of administrative misconduct tied to cost overruns in a US central bank renovation project. However, its conclusion there was lax…