The Saddleworth Moor fire in June 2018 was the largest UK wildfire in recent decades – PA Huge wildfires in 2018 exposed five million people to dangerous levels of polluted air, a new study has found. The devastating blazes at … Read More
The decree comes as the German-flagged vessel Alan Kurdi is currently in international waters of the coast of Libya with 150 shipwreck survivors Rome (CNN)Non-national migrant rescue ships will no longer be able to dock in Italy after the country … Read More
Cyclone Harold’s force has been well and truly felt in Fiji with reports of flooded roads, fallen trees and damaged homes emerging from the small, battered nation – but things could be worse for Pacific neighbours Tonga. All of Fiji’s … Read More
Life for refugees in Greece is already fraught with uncertainty and hardship, but fears have spiraled since the coronavirus pandemic reached the camps. COVID-19 has reached the refugee camps of Greece, with two different migrant facilities in the country now closed to … Read More
Not only have all the patients survived, according to Pluristem, but four of them showed improvement in respiratory parameters. Biologists work in a laboratory at Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. in Haifa – (photo credit: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS) Six critically ill coronavirus patients in Israel … Read More
The drug, called opaganib, was designed to have anti-cancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. It has undergone testing but has yet to be approved for general use. Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus … Read More
In a rare televised address, the health minister said some people were not taking the danger of infection seriously. The coronavirus could eventually infect between 10,000 and 200,000 people in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s health minister has said, urging the public to … Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s effort to resume federal executions got a boost on Tuesday from a U.S. appeals court, which tossed a district judge’s injunction that blocked four death penalty sentences from being carried out. The 2-1 ruling by … Read More
BC-Putin’s-Oil-Price-Gambit-Has-Run-Out-of-Road , Clara Ferreira Marques (Bloomberg Opinion) — In the eyes of Moscow hardliners, the shale boom that turned the U.S. into a leading oil exporter has also encouraged Washington’s belligerence. Back in early March, low prices were a welcome … Read More
By Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde – http://www.ngb.army.mil, Public Domain, Link In violation of the international Refugee Convention, which the US signed in 1968, the Border Patrol is now using the COVID-19 crisis as a rationale to turn away migrants without giving … Read More