WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa’s children in major breakthrough
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially ...Despite French push, EU leaders divided over common defence strategy
European Union leaders failed to overcome divisions over whether to develop an independent defence force despite anger at the chaotic withdrawal of ...Biden says he and China’s Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement
US President Joe Biden says he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan, with them agreeing to abide by the “Taiwan agreement”, as ...Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
A former Facebook employee told members of Congress Tuesday that the company knows that its platform spreads misinformation and content that harms ...Macron to meet Biden at G20, hopes to move on after AUKUS dispute
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would meet his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden in Rome at the Group of 20 ...French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 sex abuse victims from 1950
An investigation into sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church has found that an estimated 216,000 children were victims of abuse by ...Afghanistan to start issuing passports again after months of delays
Afghanistan will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday after months of delays, a senior official said. Alam Gul Haqqani, ...Thailand joins Asian nations in rush to buy Merck’s COVID-19 pill
Thailand’s government is in talks with Merck & Co to buy 200,000 courses of its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 treatment, the ...China mounts largest incursion yet near Taiwan, blames U.S. for tensions
China blamed the United States on Monday for increased tensions over Taiwan, as the island fingered Beijing as the “chief culprit” after ...Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down in global outage
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as ...
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