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Nearly all of the world’s glaciers are losing mass at an ever increasing pace, contributing to more than a fifth of global sea level rise this century, according to unprecedented research released Wednesday. Glaciers — vast bodies of frozen water

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have traded blame for cross-border shelling and clashes that killed at least four and injured dozens in a conflict over water supply. It was the latest outburst of tensions between the two ex-Soviet Central Asian neighbors.

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On Tuesday, the U.S.-based rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accused Israel of two crimes against humanity: the crime of apartheid, and the crime of persecution. Other organisations, including Israeli ones, have previously made similar claims; but it is the

Some lockdown restrictions in Ireland are to be lifted in the coming weeks, the country’s prime minister has said.

Hundreds of oxygen concentrators have been donated to a UK-based humanitarian organisation which will be used to help India’s COVID crisis.

As safety concerns over COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson–Janssen have led to disruptions in the inoculation efforts of numerous countries relying on those shots, companies like Moderna are attempting to fill the resulting gaps. The Massachusetts-based biotech company announced

Chained to a hospital bed “like an animal” while suffering from COVID-19. Not allowed to visit the bathroom, and given a bottle in which to urinate instead. Unable to eat because of a fractured jaw. Those were the conditions that