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Yemen’s Taiz faces deadly siege, as Shabwah death toll rises
Government forces launch major offensives across multiple Yemeni front lines as a tightening blockade threatens Taiz.
Yemen’s critically ill are trapped as war closes the country’s airports
A re-ignition of Yemen’s war has left the chronically sick who need treatment trapped in the country.
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‘Deliberate’ car ramming of Australian MP an isolated incident, police say
A 43-year-old man accused of deliberately hitting Helen Haines outside her office is in police custody.
Trump signs order launching women’s health division at NIH, White House
First Lady Melania Trump has championed the executive action as a ‘transformative moment’ for US women’s health.
Inside Gaza’s hospital horrorThis article will be opened in a new browser window
Three years of shortages and impossible choices: doctors who worked in Gaza compare its hospitals with what they need.
Pope greeted by crowds in first major appearance since lung cancer surgery
Pope Leo pledges a gradual return to duties in an address to the Catholic faithful in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case amid widening regional outbreak
Kenyan health authorities say latest patient was likely exposed to the country’s first Ebola case.
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Food or medicine? The impossible choices facing Sudan’s chronically ill
Sudanese are facing growing costs of medicine caused by the country’s civil war.
Pope Leo returns to Vatican after lung cancer surgery
Doctors say they are seeing ‘continued improvement’ after the US-born pope had a lump removed from his lung on Tuesday.
Kenya confirms four more Ebola cases, bringing total to seven
Three health workers who treated the country’s first Ebola patient are among the latest confirmed cases.
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