BANGKOK: The Thai government has ordered a crackdown on farmers flouting a ban on crop burning, as pollution in Bangkok spiked on Friday (Jan 31) a week after toxic air forced hundreds of schools ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) praised Pakistan on Thursday for reducing polio cases by over 99% since 1994, reaffirming ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that over 2,000 people have been wounded by fighting in and around Congo's ...

The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a rare infection most commonly found in parts of central and east Africa. The seventh ...

A Pew Research survey reveals that opinions on U.S. membership in the World Health Organization are split. As of April 2024, ...

WHO plays a unique role in global health, which may complicate the Trump administration's ability to replicate the agency's ...

Too few leaders have learned the critical lesson that international cooperation is essential to pandemic prevention, ...

President Trump’s decision to clean house at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and initially freeze all ...

World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public ...