Monkeypox or mpox virus, famine, food aid and climate shocks

Today’s top stories Mosquitoes at Singapore’s National Environmental Agency CREDIT: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images An enclosure at Singapore’s National Environmental Agency is filled with Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes. Since 2016, the city state has been releasing five million mosquitoes infected with the bacteria every week in a bid to wipe out dengue. Wolbachia prevents the mosquitoes

The War that will continue

The war in Gaza will continue for at least another seven months, Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser has suggested as more tanks rolled into Rafah on Wednesday May 29. “We expect another seven months of combat in order to shore up our achievement and realise what we define as the destruction of Hamas and Islamic

Spreading of bird flu, Western food and missing girls

Six-year-old Tamir Munkhbayar is training to become a child jockey CREDIT: Simon Townsley Horse riding and racing is deeply ingrained in Mongolia’s nomadic heritage. But a requirement for riders to weigh no more than 35 kg means that competitors in national, provincial and local contests are always young children. The dangerous custom has killed at

Genocide in Gaza as an Opportunity

  Palestinian citizens of Israel – 1.5 million people, or 20% of Israel’s population – are considered a national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious minority under international human rights law.   If what is currently happening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank took place before October 7, our attention would have been completely fixated on that

Mosquito warning, water, fishing and other stories

Today’s top story Venique Swartz says she did not drink while pregnant, but many do CREDIT: Barry Christianson South Africa’s Western Cape is known for its dramatic coastlines and acres of wineland. But behind the blue skies and rolling hills, the province is grappling with a heartbreaking health crisis. The area has the highest rate

Weekly World Watch for the first part of February 2024

Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, at the beginning of February, embarked on his fifth tour of the Middle East full of hope. But during Netanyahu’s press conference on the night of Blinken’s departure he rejected Hamas’s ceasefire proposals and vowed to attack Rafah. The ceasefire talks were dead. Israel remains intent on totally

Interposition efforts and peace brigades

Could there be a role for unarmed, non-governmental peace brigades to monitor frontiers and lessen tensions?

Israel-Palestine drama needs more attention

For months, we have been confronted daily with acts of war that do not go through the bracket. As spectators of the terrible war crimes, we get the impression that the International leaders are keeping their hands in mind and do not want to see what Israel has been up to for several years. We

Israel committing genocide to steal tens of billions of dollars worth of natural resources

Not many journals or television stations want to criticise Israel for committing genocide in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy to steal tens of billions of dollars worth of natural resources. Philip Weiss worked in print journalism for more than 30 years. He has worked for many magazines and newspapers, and for a time his whole

Hamas rejects ceasefire until Israel withdraws from Gaza

January 21 Israeli hostages | Israeli hostages at risk from deadly fungus with ‘no treatment’ in Hamas tunnel network A mysterious deadly fungus in the Hamas tunnel network poses a new threat to the 136 hostages being held in Gaza, Israeli officials have claimed. A member of the hostage team in Israel, speaking on condition