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‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online

TheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsNovember 24, 20230

Correspondence taken from 130 captured ships reveal details of the stories of seafarers and their families in the 1700s A letter from a reproachful wife...

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Cheap over-the-counter nail drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease

TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsNovember 23, 20230

‘Momentous’ breakthrough as trial finds treatment for nail infections to be highly effective for neglected tropical disease A cheap and easily taken drug used to...

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Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

TheWorldsNewsNovember 17, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsNovember 17, 20230

Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear All healthcare facilities...

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South Africa ‘can’t afford’ to pay for new anti-HIV drug, despite cut-price offer

TheWorldsNewsNovember 17, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsNovember 17, 20230

The jab, given every two months, has been offered on a non-profit basis, but it can’t compete with a cheap daily HIV-prevention pill The South...

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DRC offers free maternity care to cut death rate among mothers and babies

TheWorldsNewsNovember 6, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsNovember 6, 20230

Healthcare workers say clinics are being overwhelmed by women seeking help, amid lack of staff and facilities to back programme Pregnant women across the Democratic...

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‘Corruption is not an African issue’: bank chief says it’s time to believe in the continent’s future

TheWorldsNewsOctober 13, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsOctober 13, 20230

In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank and ‘optimist-in-chief’, says the outlook is good for a continent with both the...

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Zimbabwe bans large gatherings as threat of cholera outbreak grows

TheWorldsNewsOctober 12, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsOctober 12, 20230

Cases are rising in many parts of the country and critics are blaming chronic water shortages and poor sanitation systems The Zimbabwean government has banned...

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FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law

TheWorldsNewsOctober 11, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsOctober 11, 20230

Women’s rights campaigners denounce ‘hugely regressive’ proposals from political and religious leaders to decriminalise practice Political and religious leaders in the Gambia are threatening to...

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Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

TheWorldsNewsOctober 10, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsOctober 10, 20230

Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds Only a third of...

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Sudan conflict ‘like planning for the apocalypse’, say aid workers

TheWorldsNewsOctober 3, 2023

by TheWorldsNewsOctober 3, 20230

At least 5.4 million people have been displaced by the fierce fighting that broke out in the country in April Humanitarian officials say the widening...

Category : Society

Cheap over-the-counter nail drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease

Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

South Africa ‘can’t afford’ to pay for new anti-HIV drug, despite cut-price offer

DRC offers free maternity care to cut death rate among mothers and babies

‘Corruption is not an African issue’: bank chief says it’s time to believe in the continent’s future

Zimbabwe bans large gatherings as threat of cholera outbreak grows

FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law

Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

Sudan conflict ‘like planning for the apocalypse’, say aid workers

UK will not return to Cameron era’s close ties with China, Sunak says

Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

Australian Christian group fights claim it was linked to leader of Kenya starvation massacre doomsday cult

Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus, says health ministry

New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

Russia claims it will begin talks with US...

Thousands protest against Brazil’s ‘death combo’ of anti-environment...

Green cards, cannabis and a strip club: JCB...

Libyan presidential vote will not go ahead on...

China accuses Australia of ‘violent’ interference in Five...

Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus, says health ministry

Biden hails arrest in Mexico of notorious Sinaloa cartel enforcer ‘El Nini’

UK will not return to Cameron era’s close ties with China, Sunak says

Shell to face human rights claims in UK over chronic oil pollution in Niger delta

UK government to present full law to set aside supreme court Rwanda decision

US-Canada border explosion may have been a medical or mechanical episode, cops say

‘We have to work urgently’: Mexican ecologists start campaign to save axolotl

Fiery Bentley crash that killed two at US-Canada border likely not terrorism, says FBI

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