UK minister defends refusal to introduce measures to deal with rising cases; India has administered 1bn doses of the Covid vaccine in the country of 1.4bnOnly 14% of promised Covid doses reach poorest countriesSingapore’s healthcare system may be unabl…
Deadly side-effect of heat stress is threat to rising numbers of workers in hot climates, doctors warn‘You shouldn’t work if your kidneys are failing – but people can’t afford not to’Read more in the Harmed by heat seriesChronic kidney disease linked t…
Global heating is having a deadly impact on Nicaragua’s sugar cane workers, who toil in temperatures of up to 45CGlobal heating ‘may lead to epidemic of kidney disease’Read more in the Harmed by heat seriesAt the Sacuanjoche clinic in Chinandega, the l…
WITHIN hours of being lured out of a national park, Mopane the lion was struck by an arrow – but it would be another 24 hours of agony before he died. This week, his killer – Phillip Smith, 46 – was tracked down to Columbia, Missouri, and squirmed when asked if he regretted his actions. […]
Just 261m of the 1.8bn doses pledged by wealthy nations have arrived in low-income countries, analysis findsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly one in seven Covid vaccine doses promised to the world’s poorest countries have…
Government pockets half of donations as central bank forces UN agencies to use lower exchange rateThe Syrian government is siphoning off millions of dollars of foreign aid by forcing UN agencies to use a lower exchange rate, according to new research.T…
Dame Cindy, the first in her family to graduate from university, rose to become a pro-vice chancellor at the University of AucklandThe first Māori woman to be named governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Cindy Kiro, has been sworn in at an intimate cere…
Director general of health says country is following similar trajectory to UK, with vast majority of hospital cases being unvaccinatedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s daily Covid-19 case numbers have gone into three figures for the first t…
Death of 18 people forces more social restrictions even as city-state expands quarantine-free travel to eight countriesSingapore’s healthcare system is at risk of being “overwhelmed” by surging coronavirus infections, government officials warned on Wed…
Activists say the presence of the countries most affected by climate crisis is key to pressuring leaders to agree aggressive targetsA third of Pacific small island states and territories do not plan to send any government figures to the Cop26 summit in…