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COVID-19 Erases Decade of Life Expectancy Gains

According to a study from the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a big drop in life expectancy around the world. The results show that...

May 25, 2024

Proposal to Treat Breastfeeding as Carbon Offset Emerges

New studies and suggestions show that breastfeeding should be seen as an environmentally friendly practice that helps the economy grow and is good for long-term development. As worries...

May 25, 2024

WHO Nears Deal on New Pandemic Response Rules

The 194 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are about to finish two years of talks in Geneva on new rules for how to respond to...

May 25, 2024

Chinese Military Drills Intensify Near Taiwan After Lai Inauguration

China started large-scale military training near Taiwan soon after William Lai Ching-te became president of Taiwan on May 20, 2023, under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In his...

May 25, 2024

UK Committee Advises Keeping Graduate Route Visa Unchanged

It was reviewed by the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) in May 2024, and they said that the Graduate Route Visa (GRV) should stay the same. This choice...

May 25, 2024

Scarlett Johansson sues OpenAI over Unauthorized Voice Replication

Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against OpenAI for using her voice without her permission brings up an important question in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): who owns one’s voice...

May 24, 2024

Maldives To Launch India’s Rupay Service Amid Bilateral Tensions

The Maldives wants to make its own currency, the Maldivian Rufiyaa (MVR), stronger, so it has announced plans to accept India’s RuPay payment service. This is a step...

May 24, 2024

UN Body Withholds Accreditation To India’s Human Rights Commission

There is a lot of attention on India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) because it needs to follow the Paris Principles to keep its accreditation standing with the...

May 24, 2024

Canadian Colleges Relax Education Requirements For Master’s Admission

Recently, Canadian universities and colleges changed the requirements for admission. One big change was that you don’t have to have completed 16 years of schooling to take postgraduate...

May 24, 2024

1st Human Case Of ‘Bird Flu’ Reported In Australia

A child who came back to Victoria from India in March was the first person in Australia to get the H5N1 bird flu. The child had a serious...

May 23, 2024

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