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By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A paralyzed Texas man who lived 70 years inside an iron lung after he survived polio as a child has died, his family said. Paul Alexander, 78, died...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's border closings and other anti-pandemic measures were "overbroad, excessive, and unnecessary" and severely affected food security and the...
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday celebrated large drops in crime rates across the U.S. last year during a White House meeting with police...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director on Wednesday signed off on the use of updated COVID vaccines as a second annual shot for adults aged...
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden exercises at least five days a week and is "fit for duty," his doctor said on Wednesday in a memo...
By Josh Smith and Alexander Ratz SEOUL/BERLIN (Reuters) - A German delegation visited the North Korean capital of Pyongyang for the first time since its embassy was shuttered...
By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Record numbers attended the trade section of the first fully post-pandemic Singapore Airshow this week, with exhibitors and delegates...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Chinese cities of Xian and Qingdao have been added to a travel scheme that allows residents to visit Hong Kong in a personal capacity, rather than in a...
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Yale University said on Thursday it would reinstate a requirement that applicants submit standardized test scores after a four-year hiatus for the...
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than half the world's countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are...
By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - The suspended death sentence handed to Australian writer Yang Hengjun in Beijing on Monday is unlikely to derail Australia-China ties but will...
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - As many as one in 10 hate crimes in the U.S. take place at schools - from kindergarten through college - according to an FBI report released on Monday,...
By Jennifer Rigby CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - Two laboratories in Britain and South Africa, which were at the forefront of tracking new coronavirus variants during the...
By Josh Smith and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea is developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for everything from how to respond to COVID-19 and...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's trial in the defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll will resume on Thursday, and will not be held on Wednesday as initially...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday estimated COVID subvariant JN.1 to account for about 85.7% of cases in the United States, as of...
By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump may be set to testify in the writer E. Jean Carroll's latest civil defamation trial in Manhattan federal court...
(Reuters) -Ecuador is reeling from a wave of violence that has shaken the South American nation, with President Daniel Noboa launching a military crackdown on gangs and a 60-day...
By Julia Symmes Cobb (Reuters) -Ecuador is reeling from a fresh wave of violence that has shaken the South American nation, with President Daniel Noboa launching a military...
By Vitalii Hnidyi and Thomas Peter SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Sitting alone in her bedroom, Ukrainian third-grader Arina Herasymova cuts an image of loneliness as she stares...
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The office of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Tuesday announced a further extension of China "Section 301" tariff exclusions on...
By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday classified the JN.1 coronavirus strain as a "variant of interest" and said current evidence shows risk to...
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -The Biden Administration on Thursday announced it is setting new policy that will allow it to seize patents for medicines developed with government...
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - Up to 600 North Koreans have "vanished" after being forcibly deported by China in October, a Seoul-based human rights group said on Thursday,...
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden's administration to ban travel between the United States...
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A request by the World Health Organization for more information on a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children in...
By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) - U.S. babies born in 2022 gained roughly a year in life expectancy compared with babies born a year earlier, federal data showed on Wednesday, marking...
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change is the biggest threat to human health in Africa and the rest of the world, the head of the continent's public health agency...
By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) -The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently suffering is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health...
By Andrew Silver and Nicoco Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet for talks in South Korea on Sunday, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Friday, as the three...
LONDON (Reuters) - Global progress in policies to reduce tobacco use slowed for the first time in 12 years following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian researchers found no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination was behind "unexplained sudden deaths", a medical organisation said on Tuesday, instead...
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Monday will start taking orders for another round of free COVID-19 tests for delivery across the country, a...
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - There was a “staggering” annual rise in measles cases and deaths in 2022, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO)...