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Many of those who were killed in a blast that destroyed a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday had turned to the church-run facility because they believed it would be a relatively safe place when they had nowhere else to go, humanitarian officials said Wednesday.
A UK health expert's warning that a new pathogen could cause a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish Flu has sent alarm bells ringing in a world that is yet to completely emerge from what it hoped was a once-in-a-lifetime event -- Covid-19
This week leaders at the U.N. adopted a declaration recognizing the need for nations to work together to address future pandemics. But Questions loom. How will it be enforced? Who's footing the bill?
The inability of global governance to impose checks and balances to ensure that the needs of less endowed countries are served is worrying.
Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying...