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June 9 09:47 PM
PARIS, France(AFP)—The world experienced its second-hottest May on record, with Europe baking under an unusually early heatwave as climate extremes be...
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June 9 09:20 PM
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)—Somalia on Tuesday defended award-winning referee Omar Artan after he was denied entry to the United States and prevented fro...
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June 9 08:39 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was set to face questioning Wednesday from US lawmakers over his relationship with lat...
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June 9 08:36 PM
Texas teen Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday, just hours after being found guilty of murder in the death of a fellow high sc...
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Residents of hurricane-ravaged seaside community respond to Gov’t relocation plan
June 9 08:28 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica—Some residents of the Hurricane Melissa ravaged seaside community of Parottee are adamant that they will not leave the area foll...
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June 9 08:22 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism and Linkages Andrea Purkiss has accused Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett of remaining “completely...
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June 9 07:45 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—The United States (US) Congress on Tuesday passed a $70 billion bill funding President Donald Trump's hardline immigra...
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June 9 07:41 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica— The Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has announced the reopening of the Catherine Hall Health Centre in St James following ...
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June 5, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union's public health agency launched a US$518-million joint plan on F...
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June 3, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak confirmed to have killed 61 people in central...
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May 29, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced the first recovery of a confirmed Ebola patient in the outbreak ra...
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May 28, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief pledged to do "everything in my power" to help conquer a deadly Ebola outbreak...
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May 22, 2026
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — A hospital in The Netherlands said Friday it had admitted a patient with a "low suspicion" of Ebola, adding that diagno...
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May 22, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A member of the MV Hondius cruise ship crew who disembarked in Tenerife and was repatriated to the Netherlands was confirm...
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May 22, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The public health risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been upgraded from high to very hig...
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May 21, 2026
The risk of the hantavirus to the Jamaican population remains very low, according to local medical experts. The reassurance by the experts comes again...
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May 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the World Health Organization, the UN body from wh...
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May 19, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)—The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday it was examining whether any candidate vaccines or treatments could be used...
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May 19, 2026
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP)—The World Health Organization chief voiced concern on Tuesday about the "scale and speed" of an Ebola outbreak in the Democra...
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May 18, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are only the latest crises in "dangerous and divisive" times, the World Health O...
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May 12, 2026
MADRID, Spain (AFP)—World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after eva...
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WHO expects hantavirus outbreak to be 'limited', if health measures followed
May 7, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday there were now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ...
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May 6, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland(AFP)—The first hantavirus case on the MV Hondius could not have been infected during the cruise, a World Health Organization exper...
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May 6, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) chief told AFP Wednesday he did not believe a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise s...
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May 5, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)—Two hantavirus cases have been confirmed and five others are suspected among people on a cruise ship stuck off Cape Verde, i...
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April 29, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United States (US) has still not paid off its membership fee arrears at the World Health Organization, the WHO chief s...
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April 28, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said progress in eliminating hepatitis was too slow, with tools available t...
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February 20, 2026
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have w...
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January 13, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) —Sugary drinks and alcohol are getting relatively cheaper, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, urging countries to h...
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January 13, 2026
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)—The World Health Organization chief warned Tuesday that Washington's decision to withdraw from the UN health agency was dang...
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June 9, 2026
PARIS, France(AFP)—The world experienced its second-hottest May on record, with Europe baking under an unusually early heatwave as climate extremes be...
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June 9, 2026
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)—Somalia on Tuesday defended award-winning referee Omar Artan after he was denied entry to the United States and prevented fro...
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June 9, 2026
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was set to face questioning Wednesday from US lawmakers over his relationship with lat...
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June 9, 2026
Texas teen Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday, just hours after being found guilty of murder in the death of a fellow high sc...
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Residents of hurricane-ravaged seaside community respond to Gov’t relocation plan
June 9, 2026
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica—Some residents of the Hurricane Melissa ravaged seaside community of Parottee are adamant that they will not leave the area foll...
