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The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the use of the first diagnostic test for mpox that will provide immediate results. This will increase testing capabilities in countries facing outbreaks, it says. This will increase testing capabilities in countries facing outbreaks, it says. The WHO announced on Friday that it had approved the “real-time PCR test”, Alinity m MPXV assay, which enables the detection of the virus by testing swabs of skin lesions. Currently, patients have to wait days for results. This test will help health workers confirm suspected cases more “efficiently”, the WHO said. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicentre of the current outbreak, only 37 percent of suspected cases have been tested this year, the United Nations health agenc...

Exporters fear a pricing war as the South Asian rivals lift restrictions on global sales of rice. The global prices for different varieties of rice dropped on Monday after India and Pakistan made tit-for-tat moves to eliminate price caps and resume rice exports. On Saturday, the Indian government lifted a ban on the export of non-Basmati white rice more than a year after it blocked overseas sales, with a larger crop yield in 2024 bolstering state warehouse reserves for domestic needs. This decision followed Pakistan’s announcement a day earlier to withdraw the minimum export price (MEP) for all rice varieties, a measure that had been in place since 2023 and set at $1,300 per metric tonne for Basmati rice, and $550 for non-Basmati rice. Pakistan’s decision was influenced by Indi...

Iran has launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, firing a barrage of missiles at the country in the latest escalation amid weeks of soaring violence and tensions in the region. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that it fired missiles at Israel in response to deadly Israeli attacks against people in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the assassinations of top IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah leaders Iran says it fired dozens of ballistic missiles at key military and security targets in Israel. Iranian leaders have said the attack was in response to deadly attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the killing of senior Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders. Israeli officials have promised a response but Iran has warned th...

Global mean sea levels have risen faster in the 20th century than in any prior century over the past 3,000 years. Surging sea levels are creating “a rising tide of misery” that threaten the future of nearly a billion people that live in low-lying coastal areas, the UN chief has warned, as they become increasingly vulnerable to storm surges, coastal erosion and flooding. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the global mean sea level has risen faster than in any prior century over at least the past 3,000 years NASA says that as global temperatures have risen about one degree Celsius (1.8F), sea levels have gone up 160 to 210 millimeters (six to eight inches) with about half of that amount occurring since 1993. “Rising seas mean a rising tide of misery,” said Antonio Guterres,...

28" September "2024" BBC" Wasiirka gaashaandhigga Soomaaliya Cabdulqaadir Maxamed Nuur ayaa kulan looga hadlayay iskaashi difaac oo dhexmara Soomaaliya iyo Azerbaijan la qaatay dhiggiisa dalka Azerbaijan wasiirk, Zakir Hasanov, sida ay qortay wakaaladda wararka Soomaaliya. Wasiir Cabdulqaadir oo booqasho ku joogay Azerbaijan ayaa ka qeybgalay munaasabadda sanad guuradii 5-aad ee ka soo wareegtay aasaaska difaaca caalamiga ah ee Azerbaijan. Munaasabadda sanadguurada ayaa lagu qabtay hormaradii u danbeeyay iyo guulihii dhanka tiknoolajiyadda difaaca, waxaana lagu booriyay masuuliyiinta wasaaradda iyo madaxda kala duwan hormarka ay ka gaareen warshadaha iyo nidaamyada difaaca, munaasabadda ayaana ka dhacday magaalada Baku. Bandhigii difaaca Azerbaijan, ayaa daneeyayaasha warshadaha ...

Bilyaneerka Mareykanka ah Elon Musk ayaa ku dhawaaqay in uu adeega internet-ka ee Starlink uu ka hirgeliyay Yemen, taas oo ka dhigeysa dalkii ugu horreeya ee Bariga Dhexe ah ee hela adeeggan. Kooxda Xuutiyiinta ayaa cambaareysay ku dhawaaqistan, iyaga oo ku tilmaamay "khatar toos ku ah amniga qaranka iyo ku xadgudubka madax-bannaanida Yemen." Waxay sidoo kale sheegeen in tallaabadani ay qayb ka tahay "dagaalka ay Mareykanka ku hayaan Yemen," iyaga oo dhanka kalena uga digay muwaadiniinta dalkaas in ay adeegsadaan adeeggan. Xubin ka tirsan Xafiiska Siyaasadda ee Xuutiyiinta, Maxamed Al-Bukhaiti, ayaa ku sheegay barta X in safaaradda Mareykanka u dabbaaldegayso tallaabadan, taas oo xaqiijinaysa xidhiidhka u dhexeeya iyaga iyo shirkadda Starlink, caddayna ay u tahay in tani u eeg tah...

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a rising global health concern – with doctors, scientists and public health experts sounding the alarm that some of the world’s most reliable antibiotics are becoming less effective against so-called “superbugs”. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses and parasites no longer respond to medicines, making people sicker and increasing the spread of infections, according to the World Health Organization (WHO Antimicrobial resistance threatens a century of medical progress and could return us to the pre-antibiotic era, where infections that are treatable today could become a death sentence,” WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned this month. AMR is thought to contribute to millions of deaths every year, and will cause increas...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the United Nations for inaction on Gaza and accused Israel of turning the Palestinian territory into the “world’s largest children’s and women’s cemetery”. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said, “In Gaza, not only are children dying, but also the United Nations system. The values the West claims to defend are dying, the truth is dying, and the hopes of humanity to live in a more just world are dying – one by one. I am asking you bluntly here: Are those in Gaza and the occupied West Bank not human beings? Do children in Palestine have no rights?” An outspoken critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, Erdogan also chastised the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dragging the Middl...