The Secrets We Bury: Mother told her children their dad left them only for psychic to locate his body 55 years later buried under family house
George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, vanished from his Long Island home in 1963, leaving his four children searching for answers for decades. Carroll’s wife, Dorothy, always told her children that their father had walked out on the family.
Haiti mission impossible: ‘Those who say they’ve come to help don’t like us; they make things worse and exploit us as they’ve done from colonial times’
The United States, which refused to send security personnel when the MSS was deployed, has expressed no intention to change its position. According to some experts, this is also deterring others from pitching in.
Fading American dream: How Trump’s new policies shattered hopes of 600,000 refugees listed to relocate to US
As part of Trump’s crackdown on both legal and illegal migration, the Republican president has upended the decades-old refugee programme that has served as a beacon for those fleeing war and persecution. In October, he resumed the program but set a historic low of refugee admissions at just 7,500 – mostly white South Africans.
Kenya hails its National Marine Spatial Plan as key to the East African nation’s harnessing Indian Ocean water resources
According to Japheth Ntiba, a fisheries expert and former principal secretary, the plan aligns with the United Nations Decade for Ocean Science initiative, which seeks to stimulate relevant knowledge to protect the oceans and provide new opportunities for sustainable development.
As UN Security Council’s new Gang Suppression Force gets ready to take over from Kenya-led mission in Haiti, past scepticism persists
After the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission failed to stem Haiti’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2793 on September 30 to replace the MSS with a new force.
Kenya signs $2.5 billion agreement with US, that clears ways for dozens of ‘America First’ global health deals
The five-year, $2.5 billion agreement with Kenya was signed on Thursday by Kenyan President William Ruto and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to replace a patchwork of previous health agreements that had traditionally been run by the US Agency for International Development
Revealed: Children under age 12 who cellphones are at higher risk of obesity, hallucination, depression and poor sleep
The study authors conducted statistical analyses of data on more than 10,000 US 12-year-olds in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, described as the “largest long-term look at children’s brain development in the United States to date.”
Silicon Valley tycoon gets backing of tech billionaires to create disease-resistant genetically engineered babies
Federal law bars the US Food and Drug Administration from even reviewing an application for a clinical trial “in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification.”
Nestle, Coca Cola and Pepsi among 11 ‘Big Food’ firms sued in California for engineering ‘public health crisis through ultra-processed food’
San Francisco on Tuesday sued 11 Big Food companies, alleging they designed “harmful” and “addictive” ultraprocessed products and aggressively marketed them to consumers, especially children. The city accused the food makers of using the “Big Tobacco playbook” to manipulate consumer perception and profit from the sale of products that cause fatty liver disease, Type 2 diabetes and other health problems.
