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A UNRWA employee provides a polio vaccine in a clinic in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on 21 January, 2024. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP By Tala Ramadan, Reuters The WHO has announced two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are set to begin in late August and September 2024 across the densely populated Gaza Strip. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday, with UN agencies appealing for urgent vaccinations of every baby. The type 2 virus (cVDPV2), while not inherently more dangerous than types 1 and 3, has been responsible for most outbreaks in recent years, especially in areas with low vaccination rates...

Police stand near the scene of fatalities and injuries in an attack at the 650th anniversary celebrations of German city Solingen. Photo: Gianni Gattus / DPA / AFP Three people have been killed and others wounded in a stabbing attack at a festival on Friday night in the western German city of Solingen, police confirm. Bild newspaper reported a man knifed passers-by at random at the festival at around 9.45 pm and that at least three people were dead and multiple wounded. Witnesses said the perpetrator was at large, the paper added. German police said they assumed the stabbings was the result of a single perpetrator. The mayor of the city confirmed there were dead and injured due to an attack, but did not go into details. "It tears my heart apart that there was an attack on our city. I ha...

By Daniel Trotta, Reuters A photo of Tyre Nichols is positioned prior to a press conference on 27 January, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo: AFP A second former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, whose videotaped beating by five Black officers in January 2023 shocked the United States. Emmitt Martin III, one of five fired officers facing criminal charges, was also expected to plead guilty to related Tennessee state charges, the Shelby County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. Martin pleaded guilty to two of the four federal counts against him - one for depriving Nichols' civil rights, and another for witness tampering - and agreed to cooperate with the investigation, according to his plea agree...

Police stand near the scene of fatalities and injuries in an attack at the 650th anniversary celebrations of German city Solingen. Photo: Gianni Gattus / DPA / AFP Several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man stabbed passers-by at random with a knife at a city festival in the western German city of Solingen, newspaper Bild reported. Bild reported that the event occurred around 9.45pm local time and that at least three people were dead and multiple people were wounded. Witnesses said the perpetrator was at large, the paper added. The local newspaper Solingen Tageblatt reported on its website that the attack occurred at a festival to honour town's 650 years. Local police said they were not yet able to comment. More to come... - Reuters Source link

Commonwealth War Graves Commission workers clean a cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula following a large wildfire. Photo: Supplied / Commonwealth War Graves Commission At least two war cemeteries containing the remains of New Zealand soldiers were affected by a fire in Gallipoli, it has been confirmed. The wildfire was one of a number of large blazes that damaged large swathes of Turkey last week. At the time, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it would take some time to carry out a full-scale inspection of all the cemeteries across the peninsula, which number more than 30. "Whilst there is extensive fire damage to the gardens, trees and horticulture in and around the cemeteries, it appears there has been no damage (other than superficial) to the headstones, graves and memorial...