Gaza, Feb 22 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that food insecurity in the northern Gaza Strip had reached an “extremely critical state” because of the restrictions imposed on the delivery of humanitarian aid. The agency said on Wednesday in a press statement that…
Gaborone, Feb 22 Botswana has recorded an increase in the number of people with influenza-like illness and Covid-19 in its facilities, a government official said in a statement. Over the past four weeks, cases of influenza-like illness have ranged from 5,300 to 8,627 per week, while cases of Covid-19 have ranged from two to 41…
Beirut, Feb 22 Two civilians were killed and three others injured during Israeli raids targeting southwest Lebanon, Lebanese medical and military sources told the media. According to official sources on Wednesday, rescue and ambulance teams equipped with bulldozers and cranes were sent to remove the rubble of several homes that were targeted in Majdal Zoun,…
Los Angeles, Feb 22 The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a clinical trials network to evaluate emerging technologies for cancer screening, the agency said. The Cancer Screening Research Network will investigate on how to identify cancers earlier, when they may be easier to treat. Eight groups have received funding from the National…
Kiev, Feb 22 The first group of four Ukrainian pilots will complete their training on the F-16 jets by summer, the media reported. The pilots started their training to fly F-16 jets in October last year in the US city of Tucson, Arizona, Xinhua news agency reported. The second and the third groups of four…
Sanaa, Feb 22 US warplanes launched five airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, media reported. The strikes hit in the area of Ras Issa in the district of al-Salif, northwest of the city, said the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV report on Wednesday, adding that there were no casualties. Hodeidah’s residents said there were…
Bucharest, Feb 22 Romania is set to hold its presidential election in September, as confirmed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who is also the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The announcement came on Wednesday after a meeting of the governing coalition comprising the PSD and the National Liberal Party (PNL), Xinhua news agency…
Gaza, Feb 22 At least 17 Palestinians were killed and more than 34 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, local medical sources told the media. The sources added on Wednesday that rescue efforts are still ongoing, and the casualties include women and…
Tunis, Feb 22 Tunisia in 2023 intercepted more than 75,000 illegal migrants while they were attempting to enter Europe via the Mediterranean Sea route to Italy, media reported. It is more than double the number in 2022, during which more than 35,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested while sailing to Italy off Tunisian coasts, said the…
Mexico City, Feb 22 At least 12 people were killed in a confrontation between rival criminal gangs in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said. Investigation into the incident began on Tuesday and is ongoing, with National Guard troops already at the site, Lopez Obrador told reporters on Wednesday at the…
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