President Biden plans to push China to resume military ties, White House official says
Sullivan said restored military ties could take place at every level from senior leadership to the tactical operational level, as well “on the water and in the air in the Indo-Pacific.”
US military attacks two militia positions in eastern Syria in retaliation
According to the Pentagon, about 56 US personnel have been injured in the attacks in Syria and Iraq, but all have returned to duty. Their injuries are a combination of traumatic brain injury and other minor wounds.
Regional and knowledge integration: Why integration of science is key to functional political, economic institutions
No integration scheme, such as East African Community or Nile Basin Initiative will succeed until we embrace, institutionalise and implement the new sciences as the cornerstones of education in the 21st century and beyond.
Thousands trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital as fighting intensifies between Israel, Hamas
Israeli military said troops would assist in moving babies on Sunday. But Medical Aid for Palestinians, a UK-based charity that has supported Shifa’s neonatal intensive care unit, said transferring critically ill infants is complex. “With ambulances unable to reach the hospital … and no hospital with capacity to receive them, there is no indication of how this can be done safely,” CEO Melanie Ward said.
‘I am deeply disturbed by continuing Big Pharma, GAVI, WHO attacks on African people with unnecessary, dangerous and expensive vaccines’
About 8,000 women die per year from cervical cancer in Nigeria, Muhammad Ali Pate, the coordinating minister of Health & Social Welfare, said. The higher rates are largely attributed to low screening coverage for cervical cancer and limited treatment options in the region, although actual numbers vary widely from country to country.
Vaccination or cull? Doctors question Bill Gates’ plan to vaccinate 86m girls in Africa and India against cervical cancer
Gavi said Nigeria’s initiative would kick off with a five-day mass vaccination drive in schools and communities in 16 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Phase 2 of the campaign will launch in the rest of the country in May 2024.
Israel, Hamas accused of violating international humanitarian law that protects hospitals during war
The battles around Shifa on Saturday raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
Rooney: Man United legend recounts how he took to binge drinking to handle football pressure
Rooney, who was appointed manager of Championship side Birmingham City last month, says he used alcohol as a “release” from the pressure he had to cope with at such a young age.
US cybersecurity centre tossed into mix-up by China’s stealthy Volt Typhoon hackers targeting critical infrastructure
The NSA’s Adamski and Josh Zaritsky, chief operations officer of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Centre, urged network defenders to manage and audit their system logs for anomalous activity and store logs such that they can’t be deleted by an attacker who gains system access and is looking to hide their tracks.
Arab and Muslim nations want ICC to probe war crimes, crimes against humanity by Israel
Dozens of leaders including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back into the Arab League this year, attended.
