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(LONDON) — Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a “significant step” in the fight against Malaria as the East African nation expands its use of the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine. The malaria vaccine — known as Mosquirix or RTS,s/AS01 — has seen a phased introduction in the country since a 2019 pilot program […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HAMBURG, Germany) — Seven people were killed, including an unborn child, in a mass shooting at a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday evening, police said. Eight people were also injured in the shooting, said police, including the pregnant mother of the unborn child. The 33-year-old woman, who […]

(NEW YORK) — Moments after a bomb explosion by a Russian drone in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Benjamin Hall found himself on the ground covered in his own blood, his right leg barely hanging from his body. His colleagues were similarly injured, lying nearby and close to death. Despite the chaos, instinct kicked in and Hall, a […]

(KYIV, Ukraine) — An Oscar-nominated documentary, “The House Made of Splinters,” tells a deep and emotive story of Ukrainian children affected by the Russian invasion. “Life has always been difficult here,” the narrator of the film says, “war made it worse.” The film takes us to 2019 in an orphanage-type institution in Lysychansk, a town […]

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military said they detected “one unidentified missile fired from North Korea’s submarine vessel near North’s port city of Sinpo.” The missile […]

Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people are dead and several others are injured after a driver hit pedestrians in Amqui, a town in the Québec region of Canada, authorities confirmed to ABC News. The driver turned himself in to police, Amqui police said. Police are investigating whether the act was deliberate, they told […]

(NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have liberated nearly 30,000 square miles of their territory from Russian forces since the invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, but […]

(NEW YORK) — A Russian fighter jet collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone over the international waters of the Black Sea on Tuesday morning, forcing the U.S. to bring the drone down off the coast of Ukraine, U.S. officials said. The incident, which involved two Russian jets, was denounced as “unsafe […]

(NEW YORK) — In 2022, only 13 countries, territories and regions globally have met the World Health Organization’s guidelines for healthy air quality, according to a report from Swiss technology company IQAir. The company, which has worked with the United Nations Environmental Program, UN-Habitat and Greenpeace to combat air pollution, examined air data from more than […]

(NEW YORK) — “When you’re cooking, steam comes out of your mouth,” Svetalana told us, standing in her bitterly cold, pitch-black kitchen, near where seven months earlier a Russian bomb caused the windows to blow out and her bedroom walls to cave in. Svetlana is now dealing with another kind of Russian attack, as Putin […]