My heart goes out to their family

First things first: unlike Covid-19, what is happening in China is not a new virus, it is human metapneumovirus (HMPV), an “old” virus that was discovered in the Netherlands in 2001. In fact, most people will contract it before they reach five years of age – researchers estimate that around 10-12 pe...

The world’s fourth most populous country and Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia, joined BRICS as a full member. The development was announced by Brazil which holds the presidency of the multilateral organization for 2025 on Monday, January 6. The move fosters hope for strengthening BRICS’ e...

Several major wildfires burned out of control in California's Los Angeles County on Wednesday as roaring winds fueled the rapid spread of the blazes, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate as state, local, and federal officials mobilized resources to confront the emergency. Los Angeles Mayor Karen...

Talks are taking place on whether US and French troops could secure a border zone in northern Syria as part of efforts to defuse conflict between Turkiye and Western-backed Kurdish Syrian forces, a senior Syrian Kurdish official said, Reuters reports. Ankara has warned that it will carry out a cr...

The High Court has upheld the constitutionality of Section 36(8) of the Elections Act, giving the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) a major victory in its handling of the 2022 County Assembly nominations. The court’s decision, delivered by Justice Lawrence Mugambi, dismissed...

> “The right to be buried is being taken away,” said Kamuran Tarhan, a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP, on Wednesday, as a delegation attempting to recover the bodies of Kurdish journalists Cîhan Bilgin and Nazim Daştan remained blocked at Turkey’s Habur border crossing for over two d...