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Reckless drivers, outdated infrastructure and fewer officers patrolling the roads cited by safety group

Not long ago, there was an optimistic vision that the world was evolving, progressive; but that vision does not describe the world we live in now

International law and the need for accountability when hospitals, medical personnel, supplies, and patients are targeted

With the world on track to blaze past its climate goals, only immediate, sweeping societal transformation can stave off catastrophic warming

We may be talking about a Russian military disaster now, but not so long ago, we were talking about a potential global health success for Russia

How years of conflict have polluted and destroyed Syrian land

Speeding up development of new vaccines won't help much in the next pandemic, unless world leaders work faster to roll out vaccination globally

"You use the quiet periods to do the hard work, you don't use the quiet to forget"

South Korea recorded more than 600,000 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the most of anywhere in the world

One of the dead was not vaccinated, a senior official with the National Health Commission reported

A hunger emergency is engulfing South Sudan with about 8.3 million people facing extreme hunger in the months ahead

False allegations about the maternity hospital airstrike in Mariupol, debunked