Sat 30 May 2026: The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is advancing faster than the response effort to contain it, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Saturday, saying the scale and severity of the epidemic remain unclear amid major gaps in testing and logistics. In a statement released during a […]
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Sat 30 May 2026: Sweden has reached its target of having fewer than 5% of the population smoking regularly, effectively making it a “smoke-free” country, according to Radio Sweden on Monday. The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs confirmed the milestone, declaring that the country has now met its long-term public health […]
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Fri 29 May 2026: The plan to send Ebola-exposed US nationals to Kenya, which has no known cases of the virus, has provoked a backlash. A Kenyan court has suspended a plan to establish an Ebola quarantine facility for United States nationals exposed to the virus following a backlash from health workers and rights activists. High Court […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: ‘Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,’ said Tedros, the WHO chief. The World Health Organization chief has warned that the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was dramatically complicating efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak. “Eastern DRC now faces a catastrophic collision of disease […]
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Mon 25 May 2026: A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has killed more than 500 children in the deadliest surge there in decades. The death toll continued to rise on Saturday, with 13 children passing away in the past 24 hours alone, increasing the total to 512, according to a health department tally that began on March 15. […]
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Mon 25 May 2026: Confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease have passed the 100 mark as infections surge in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report released Sunday by health authorities. The report issued by the Communications Ministry showed that as of May 23, the virus had affected 11 […]
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Sat 23 May 2026: Schools increasingly rely on testing, grading and performance accountability. In England, Ofsted inspections and school league tables sharpen the focus on measurable performance. Similar developments have taken place in Sweden, where repeated reforms have introduced earlier and more detailed assessments. Performance-driven school environments shape young people’s wellbeing. Yet despite frequent reforms to evaluation […]
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Fri 22 May 2026: Chief of humanitarian action warns caregiving roles, weak health systems increase dangers for women, girls during outbreaks Women and girls are likely to face the highest risk of Ebola infection during the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda because of their caregiving and frontline community roles, […]
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Thu 21 May 2026: Numbers are expected to rise, the WHO warns, as European officials emphasise that the risk of a European outbreak is low. The number of suspected Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has risen to 600, with 139 suspected deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The […]
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Wed 20 May 2026: Australians are feeling the pressure of rising grocery prices. At the same time, we throw away huge amounts of perfectly edible food every year. Some food spoils before we can use it. But we waste plenty of food by throwing away parts of ingredients we simply don’t think to use. Many of these […]
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