An aerial view of locals being rescued on a boat in waterlogged Jamkhandi Taluk at Belgaum district of Karnataka state in the south Indian city of Bangalore, Aug. 11, 2019. NEW DELHI – Indian authorities on Sunday mounted a major … Read More
Jakarta: A strong earthquake that hit off Java island killed four people and damaged more than 200 houses, swaying buildings as far away as Indonesia’s capital, officials said on Saturday. The US Geological Survey said Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake was … Read More
A woman shields herself from the heat with an umbrella as she walks by a securities firm in Tokyo on Tuesday. Photo: AP/Koji Sasahara TOKYO Eleven people died and 5,664 people were taken to hospitals in Japan due to heat-related medical issues … Read More
The president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene talks about how the designation could help fight the nearly year-old outbreak in central Sub-Saharan Africa. Credit: Getty Images The World Health Organization last week drew global attention to a … Read More
Venezuela’s Special Action Forces carrying out a security operation in Caracas in April.CreditCreditYuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images GENEVA — Venezuelan special forces have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipulated crime scenes … Read More
Eight countries saw their highest June temperatures in recorded history People play as they bathe in a fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Friday. (Zakaria Abdelkafi/AFP/Getty Images) The second pulse of a historic heat wave scorched … Read More
The number of dengue fever cases in Honduras has exploded in 2019 with the numbers as of May 11 topping the total for all of 2018. Image/CIA Year-to-date, Honduras has reported 8017 total dengue cases, including 24 deaths during the … Read More
Dengue fever Aedes aegypti/CDC Brazil health officials are reporting a dramatic increase in dengue fever cases during the first 23 weeks of 2019, according to recent data from the country’s Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. From Jan. 1 through June … Read More
Wildfires engulf parts of Europe as record-breaking temperatures stifle life across the continent. Hundreds of firefighters battled to contain flames in southern France. In the Gard region, scores of fires burned some 600 hectares of land and destroyed several houses … Read More
