What we're reading

The health impacts of war do not stop with trauma from fighting. Rough estimates suggest for each person killed by war, nine will be killed indirectly

More than five million children lost a parent or caregiver to COVID, though the number is probably higher

Washington wants to fast track a series of far-reaching changes in the existing International Health Regulations

Mass compulsory testing plan is set to begin in mid-March as Hong Kong aims to control an omicron wave

"We are unwilling to learn our history and unwilling to accept our complicity when it comes to racial inequality"

A group of migrants at Mexico's southern border sewed their mouths shut to demand that immigration authorities grant them passage toward the U.S.

California's governor announced a milestone, saying his state would become the first in the nation to treat COVID-19 as a manageable, endemic risk

Africa was declared free of wild polio in 2020, until now

Rising water now considered "nuisance flooding" will become far more damaging

Nearly 400 Afghans try to acclimate to a very foreign and largely monoethnic South Korea that accepts few refugees

Three consecutive failed rainy seasons have decimated crops and forced families from their homes

Poisoning from snakebites is overlooked because it mostly affects the world's poorest people who lack advocacy