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Israel says bombardment of Gaza 'will continue into 2025' as world mourns tragedy which saw 45 Palestinians burned alive in Rafah refuge camp on Sunday

29/05/24 21:53

28/05/24 03:33

The teacher played an episode of the TV program Behind The News (BTN), during a class at a school in Sydney recently, which featured terms for gender and romantic identity including 'aroace'.

24/05/24 16:04

Under the deal, America and other rich nations could be forced to hand over a fifth of their vaccines and treatments to the UN's World Health Organization in a crisis.

15/05/24 08:27

'Transsexualism, dual-role transvestism, gender identity disorder in childhood, other gender identity disorders and fetishistic transvestism' are now all recorded as mental illnesses under the decree

01/05/24 20:35

Georgia's state GOP primary voters have an odd question on ballots. They get to say whether the UN will usurp the US government and order Americans around the next time a pandemic strikes.

26/04/24 18:10

Reem Alsalem, a UN rapporteur, said this month's Cass Review into Britain's trans health crisis was 'seminal' and that it could upend gender-affirming care globally.

22/04/24 00:15

Tanya Plibersek has derided Elon Musk as an 'egotistical billionaire' after the X owner vowed to defy the Australian government's demands to remove harmful content.

15/04/24 05:56

Australians with a certain kind of superannuation have seen the value of their retirements savings surge by 69 per cent since the start of the Covid pandemic four years ago.

01/04/24 06:28

Elon Musk 's X is suing the Australian government after its 'world-first' E-Safety Commissioner ordered an 'offensive' post to be removed from the platform.

27/03/24 11:31

The Australian government's attempts to police online speech have descended into farce after its 'world's first' eSafety Commissioner makes a major admission.

26/03/24 11:49

The Australian government has tried to force a Canadian man to delete an 'offensive' tweet about a UN trans expert, threatening X owner Elon Musk with a $800,000 fine.

02/03/24 19:53

Gaza is now dangerously close to famine, the United Nations has warned, as more than 100 people were left dead earlier this week when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd trying to get food.

02/03/24 16:00

At least 112 Palestinians were believed to have been killed and 760 injured when soldiers opened fire after feeling threatened by the crowds.

27/02/24 16:20

Female-to-male trans Australian activist Teddy Cook has posted about everything from public nudity to bondage parties, trans orgies and even a photo of a man apparently having sex with a dog.

18/02/24 19:21

Just days after Israeli forces stormed Nasser hospital in Gaza, WHO has revealed that its team was not allowed to enter the facility to assess patients and critical medical needs.

20/01/24 01:07

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Measles is not just some childhood rite of passage. It is a highly contagious disease and can be dangerous.

20/01/24 00:39

Declaring an official 'national incident', the UK Health Security Agency warned that too few youngsters were protected against measles.

01/01/24 23:27

The agency was accused of choosing a group of 'blatantly biased' activists and medics to develop its guidance on improving access to 'health services by trans and gender diverse people'.

31/12/23 23:59

Scottish ministers were warned 16 years ago that 60,000 people could die in a flu pandemic, newly released documents have revealed. The Scottish Government was alerted in 2007.

04/12/23 03:06

President Joe Biden wagged his finger in warning at Robert De Niro when the actor mocked his age during tribute to Billy Crystal during the taping of the annual Kennedy Center Honors.

04/12/23 02:47

A prominent Australian doctor has slammed talk of a 'mystery new illness' from China affecting children that has been widely reported in recent weeks.

21/11/23 05:46

Health experts have warned that Australia could see millions of fresh Covid cases over the coming months, with a new wave of Omicron subvariants circulating, as new vaccines are rolled out.

20/11/23 12:20

Twenty-eight premature babies evacuated from Al Shifa hospital were wrapped up in hats and blankets as they were transferred from the Gaza warzone to Egypt today.

20/11/23 09:50

Heavy fighting erupted today around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks.

19/11/23 08:58

Qatar had helped broker talks with the aim of freeing some of the 240 taken hostage by the terrorist group during the barbaric October 7 massacre in Israel.

17/11/23 20:00

The new figure includes 5,000 children, according to Hamas, and comes hours after Israeli soldiers found the remains of kidnapped female soldier Noa Marciano, who was 19.

17/11/23 16:11

Hamas has claimed 'Zionist' hostages were not held captive in hospitals but taken there 'to save their lives' after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of two prisoners in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital.

17/11/23 14:31

The chilling exposé lays bare the grim reality of fur factory farming across six EU nations. The material shows animals such as mink and raccoon dogs in disturbing conditions.

17/11/23 11:43

Overcome with grief, Adi Marciano broke down in tears as she placed her hand on her daughter Noa's coffin during an emotional service for the soldier in the central Israeli city of Modiin.

16/11/23 22:55

Israeli troops have claimed they found a tunnel shaft used by Hamas terrorists at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital along with the bodies of two hostages held in a building close by.

16/11/23 19:26

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it recovered the body of Yehudit Weiss, 64, (pictured) who was taken captive by Hamas at Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas killing spree.

16/11/23 13:32

Palestinian telecoms provider Paltel said a lack of fuel means all communications services are down across Gaza, which has been subject to a blockade and relentless bombing campaign.

15/11/23 16:27

Mark Regev, an advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister announced on Wednesday that Israeli forces had 'discovered weapons and other things' after nearly a week spent encircling the hospital.

15/11/23 12:46

Israel should not have retaliated after Hamas attacked and instead the Jewish state should have called in the United Nations to 'demilitarise' the terror organisation, a UN expert claims.

14/11/23 22:24

The Israeli military entered the hospital early Wednesday morning in a 'precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area' of the facility, the IDF said in a statement.

14/11/23 01:22

Footage taken by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed to show underground tunnels fitted with electrical power leading to the Al-Rantisi hospital.

13/11/23 11:03

While fighting has so far been largely concentrated around Al Shifa hospital, the IDF released footage this afternoon of Hamas fighters outside al-Quds hospital, carrying RPG's into the facility.

13/11/23 09:02

Sarah Harris broke down in tears on live television over Israel's bombardment of Gaza where one child is killed every ten minutes.

13/11/23 01:09

A heart-breaking photo shows seven newborn babies wrapped in green scrubs beside each other on a bed after they were taken out of incubators due to a power outage at Al-Shifa hospital.

11/11/23 13:34

EXCLUSIVE: Woodside Link road opened in 2017 to huge fanfare in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, with the aim of bringing cleaner air to the polluted area and reducing traffic.

06/11/23 10:40

Dr Hammad was working in Gaza on behalf of the World Health Organisation, who directed him to safety after Israel announced a complete siege of the enclave last month.

02/11/23 09:56

An Israeli commander said the soldiers are now 'at the gates' of the city that before the war was home to around 1.1 million, many of whom have fled south.

31/10/23 05:25

Shocking new research has revealed 'alarmingly high rates of bacterial resistance' to commonly prescribed antibiotics given to children and babies with life-threatening illnesses.

17/10/23 19:04

Zaina and her family had to leave Gaza City and head south, to an area that Israel assured them would be safe. She has been fearing for her life amid Israeli air strikes.

16/10/23 16:58

In the terrifying clip, several people crammed into the back of an ambulance are heard screaming in terror as a missile smashed into a target nearby, triggering a huge explosion

16/10/23 16:39

Gina Semiatich, a 90-year-old Czech-born Holocaust survivor, was tragically murdered by Hamas gunmen in her home at Kibbutz Kissufim, less than two miles from the Gaza border.

11/10/23 05:10

All tourists travelling to Bali will be screened for a deadly bat virus, as health authorities scramble to respond to a spike in cases overseas.

09/10/23 01:32

Kirsty Smitten was given just months to live after being diagnosed with heart cancer, a terminal disease so rare it affects just two people a year in the UK, in February and lost her fight for life on October 4.

21/09/23 05:17

One of Australia's top doctors has exposed the major flaw with the newly-announced inquiry into the state, territory and federal governments' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

21/09/23 01:20

The emergence of a 'highly mutated' new variant of Covid-19 called Pirlola has sparked fears of a resurgence of the virus around the world, including in Australia.

20/09/23 18:49

Turkish search teams have joined an international brigade of rescue groups making a desperate bid to scour Derna's beaches in search of life - and to recover the bodies of the dead.

14/09/23 01:26

Most rental homes in Australia are too cold to live in and too expensive to heat.

13/09/23 15:10

The former PM urged the Government to have a more interventionist policy on public health, with an expansion of the sugar tax alongside new levies on foods high in fat and salt, and advertising bans.

13/09/23 01:45

The French agency that regulates radio frequencies said its agents would verify that iPhone 12 models were no longer being sold in France, starting Wednesday.

03/09/23 18:28

Caitlin Edwards, 22, who was otherwise healthy, looked like 'she was going to die' after being diagnosed a rare condition that ravages the kidneys following a dip in the sea near Amroth Beach.

01/09/23 18:11

Authorities closed roads in two of the capital's suburbs and scrambled to send stay-at-home alerts, while pest controllers sprayed insecticide in potential breeding hotspots.

09/08/23 04:57

In Australia, Arcturus also appears to be the most common subvariant and while no Eris cases have yet been reported, experts say it is likely already in the country.

19/07/23 00:46

The Biden administration informed the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Monday that their federal funding had been suspended, and was in the process of being fully rescinded.

06/07/23 10:33

A GP who showed no regret over telling parents to let their children get measles has said she is 'delighted' to be struck off by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

05/07/23 16:12

The London-based doctor was accused of eight charges at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service misconduct hearing. But she branded the tribunal a 'politically-motivated show trial'.

04/06/23 17:27

Ron DeSantis is the latest 2024 candidate to slam Donald Trump for his warm words congratulating dictator Kim Jong Un for North Korea getting a seat on the WHO executive board.

28/05/23 20:08

Nine months removed from statements from the US CDC and WHO putting an end to such measures, the warning is blatantly outdated - and is already causing a stir among reps.

27/05/23 00:53

MPs, a minister and the Foreign Office all expressed concerns about the World Health Organisation trying to impose protocols on member states in future outbreaks.

14/05/23 22:43

Laura Anne Jones (pictured), the Tory shadow minister for education in Wales, said the WHO needs to 'rescind the advice immediately'.

14/05/23 16:57

A document published by the World Health Organisation suggests that children as young as four and under should be given sex education and 'explore gender identities.'

08/05/23 08:33

ABC medical pundit Dr Norman Swan was quick to brush aside the World Health Organisation's declaration that the global Covid emergency is over by pointing out the virus is still taking lives.

04/05/23 05:29

The World Health Organization has fired a senior scientist who had a heavy role in claiming the COVID lab-leak theory was 'unlikely' over sexual misconduct accusations.

27/04/23 03:03

Labelled Arcturus, the Omicron subvariant was first detected in India in January and has sparked a rise in infections.

25/04/23 12:24

The World Health Organization said that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied a central public laboratory (pictured) in the capital Khartoum.

24/04/23 16:36

Temo Waqanivalu, a Fijian doctor who headed a unit on noncommunicable diseases at WHO's Geneva headquarters, was dismissed today.

20/04/23 01:26

A 300-page document, compiled by the US Senate, suggests Chinese researchers started work on a vaccine programme in mid-November of 2019.

02/04/23 21:04

The CDC has issued a warning to people traveling to two African countries over a deadly Marburg outbreak after it announced it is sending personnel to monitor the disease.

03/03/23 16:54

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had now assessed the source of Covid-19 pandemic was 'most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan'.

16/02/23 06:28

Dr. Peter Daszak retweeted the post from a fellow virologist Tuesday, hours after The World Health Organization (WHO) quietly nixed its probe into what started the pandemic.

05/01/23 11:39

China reported just one new Covid death in the mainland for Wednesday, compared with five a day earlier. But estimates say about 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from Covid.

04/01/23 22:27

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead for Covid, told a press conference Wednesday: 'We are concerned about its growth advantage in particular in countries in Europe and the US'

04/01/23 16:48

In a rare rebuke of Beijing, the UN agency said China was using a 'very narrow' definition of Covid deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the virus.

02/12/22 17:00

EXCLUSIVE: The former health secretary accused WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of pandering to Beijing because the Communist state helped fund his office.

27/11/22 21:42

Frontline medical staff in Ukraine are being targeted by enemy fire more than in any other war and are being treated as 'high-value targets' by Russian forces, according to a humanitarian charity.

22/11/22 01:25

Russians have murdered, tortured and kidnapped Ukrainians in a systematic pattern that could implicate top officials in war crimes, a senior US official said yesterday.

   

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