Israel says it has concluded strikes on Iranian military targets and all its planes have returned safely home. Satellite imagery shows renovation work at an old Soviet-era laboratory called Sergiev Posad-6 - previously quiet for decades - with several new buildings bearing hallmarks of biological labs designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens
Read MoreRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov on Wednesday to oversee the military campaign in Ukraine, in the latest shake-up of Moscow's military leadership. The battle for Soledar in eastern Ukraine intensifies
Read MoreDr. Michael Osterholm, a top US infectious disease expert and a member of the Biden transitional Covid-19 advisory group, urges urgent action to prevent a large portion of the global population from contracting the coronavirus.
Read MoreUpdates on Covid-19 from around the world. A worrying patchwork quilt of lockdown rollbacks in the US. The travel industry, especially airlines, head into turbulent skies. Cases in Russian sky-rocket. The WHO signals concern over countries with fragile health systems. And have some of our leaders let us down?
Read MoreAs the Covid-19 pandemic makes it terrifying march around the globe, ravaging the economy along with it, we are at a point where things could still get worse before they get better.
Read MorePlain and simple, the morally bankrupted administration of Donald Trump is leveraging the child separation crisis to win gains on immigration reform - including the building of the controversial border wall between the US and Mexico and harsher enforcement.
Read MoreWithin the next days or weeks, the United States will nominate the next executive director of UNICEF, arguably the most influential child right's position in the world. Will the Trump administration select a suitable individual?
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