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A 28-year-old man has tested positive for the potentially fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a city in Abu Dhabi on the border with Oman, the World...

The Syrian Army, supported by Russia, continues to target and attack the health infrastructure in Syria's north-western city of Idlib, Anadolu Agency reports. The attacks have resulted in severe...

Thousands of people were evacuated from the Jenin refugee camp, as one of Israel's biggest West Bank military operations in years continued for a second day on Tuesday, and a car-ramming...

UN aid agencies, on Tuesday, voiced alarm at the scale of the ongoing occupation forces' operation in the West Bank town of Jenin, where 10 Palestinians have been killed, saying there...

The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) elected the State of Qatar as President of the Board at its 153rd session for a period of one year,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, adopted a resolution on health conditions in Occupied Palestine, Anadolu News Agency reports. The resolution passed with 76 votes in favour, 13...

The PLO's Commission of Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs yesterday called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to urgently help save the lives of sick Palestinian prisoners facing a...

It is essential that both sides in the Sudanese conflict urgently commit to "an inclusive political process and to a negotiated peace," the UN Human Rights chief said on...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the...

The World Health Organisation said, on Tuesday, it had found after a risk assessment that there was a "moderate risk" related to the seizure of a public health laboratory...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed the cease-fire reached in Sudan, urging the parties to the conflict to "fully" respect it, the Director-General said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency...

Fighting in Sudan eased on Tuesday and more foreigners and locals fled the capital, Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what a UN agency said was a "high risk of...

The World Health Organisation said Friday that 413 people have died in the current Sudan conflict, while the UN children's agency said children are paying a high price, with...

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that there were "disturbing reports" of some health facilities looted and others used for military purposes in troubled...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning about the increasing number of Israeli attacks against medical staff in hospitals and other medical institutions in the occupied West...

A record drought sweeping the Horn of Africa may lead to 135 deaths per day in Somalia from January to June, a study by the Somali health ministry, the...

A former British ambassador to Yemen, Michael Aron, breached diplomatic guidelines by attending the opening ceremony of a Jordanian cigarette factory, part-owned by British American Tobacco (BAT), where he...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will support Ankara in its response to massive earthquakes that killed more than 50,000, Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Tuesday, as the death...

The death toll from the 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Turkiye and Syria in the early hours of Monday morning has now surpassed 11,000. The World Health...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock yesterday called on Russia to help pressure Syria into allowing humanitarian aid into the country for victims of Monday's deadly earthquakes quickly and without...

Communities living in Syria and Lebanon, already struggling with armed violence and an economic crash, have been hit by cholera, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday,...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) called on the World Health Organisation yesterday, requesting immediate intervention to lift Israel's tight blockade on the northern West Bank city of Nablus and Jenin,...

The UN warned, Tuesday, that a cholera outbreak was rapidly spreading throughout Syria and asked for $34.4 million for a three-month response plan, Anadolu News Agency reports. The money...

World Health Organisation in Syria accused of corruption

Cholera cases have surged this year, especially in places of poverty and conflict, with outbreaks reported in 26 countries and fatality rates rising sharply, a World Health Organisation official...

UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Measures are being taken by local and global charities to fight the deadly cholera outbreak in Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. A programme...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday of a "very high" risk of a cholera outbreak in Syria after announcing last week that infections had been recorded in...

Israel will host the 72nd annual World Health Organisation (WHO) conference for the first time next week, the Health Ministry announced yesterday. According to the WHO, representatives from the...

The Ministry of Health in Gaza pointed out that 371 patients left the Strip for treatment unaccompanied, the highest number since April.

Six-year-old Farouq Mohammed Abu Naja died in the Gaza Strip after Israeli occupation authorities denied him access to medical care at Hadassah Medical Centre in occupied Jerusalem. A press...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday confirmed three new cases of monkeypox virus, taking the total caseload to 16, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the UAE Health Ministry...

The UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said they expect the number of abused older adults who are 60 and older may reach 320 million by 2050, Anadolu...