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In late September, as Albina Iliushchenko drove down the familiar streets of her childhood in Izium in eastern Ukraine, she choked back tears looking at the cracked, blackened facades of apartment blocks, and at the restaurants and shops reduced to rubble. At the elementary school where her mother used to...

At the outset of the conflict in Tigray in November 2020, China worked with the Ethiopian military to evacuate 600 Chinese citizens from the massive Wolkaiyt sugar refinery near the frontlines and a water project near Mekelle run by the Gezhouba Group, one of China’s largest energy state-owned enterprises. In...

The launch of China’s Outlook on Peace and Development in the Horn of Africa initiative in March 2022 to facilitate a Chinese-led peace process in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa highlights Beijing’s interest in the region that is grappling with humanitarian crises touched climate change and scramble for natural...

An experiment to test whether gene-editing technology can stop the HIV from replicating has given the highest hopes that humanity may be on the brink of the cure for virus. The Crisper gene-editing technology has demonstrated that HIV can be wiped out the infection, raising hopes for an HIV cure....

Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the country has faced spiralling economic and humanitarian crises. Some three quarters of the government budget was previously funded by international donors, and the loss of aid money – coupled with billions of dollars in assets frozen by foreign powers...

A dark shadow follows the hundreds of thousands of residents who call the West Kabul neighbourhood of Dasht-e Barchi home. Last Friday, on September 30, Barchi made international headlines after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a university testing centre, killing at least 53 students – mostly young women...

Medical researchers are exploring possibilities of using oxytocin – also known as the love hormone – to regenerate heart muscles. This follows a familiar pattern that shows heart diseases as the leading cause of death worldwide – almost 18.6 million people globally died from cardiovascular disease in 2019. The most...

The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong with the foetus’s blood, so they decided to perform an emergency C-section many weeks before the baby was due. But despite this, and subsequent blood transfusions, the baby suffered a brain haemorrhage...

Researchers from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences have found that feelings of loneliness are linked to a significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The 20-year follow-up study, published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes , used data from the Trøndelag...

A new study has found that drinking mild-to-moderate daily coffee may help lower the risk of arrhythmias, cardiovascular disease risk and all-cause mortality. Researchers analysed how the quantity and type of coffee consumption influence the risk of arrhythmias, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality in adults ages 40 to 69. They...