Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada spread across nearly one-third of the United States on Wednesday, according to forecasters. Most areas didn’t face serious air quality issues, but some parts of New England, New York state, and the Midwest faced unhealthy conditions. The haze, which brought hazardous levels of particulate pollution to Minnesota a day…
Health officials in Hong Kong and Singapore have warned about a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases as a new wave is spreading across many parts of Asia, Bloomberg reported. Albert Au, the head of the Communicable Disease Branch at Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection, told local media that Covid-19 activity in the city is…
LUCKNOW: On World Water Day 2025, the State Clean Ganga Mission-Uttar Pradesh and the District Ganga Committee, Lucknow, organised a day-long program to promote water conservation and cleanliness. The event, held in two sessions—morning and evening—aimed to raise awareness about protecting water resources and maintaining the purity of the Gomti River.The morning session at Mankameshwar…
As President Trump addressed Congress last week, he veered off script to attack a sensitive topic, the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law aimed at making the United States less reliant on Asia for semiconductors. Republican lawmakers had sought and received reassurances over the past few months that the Trump administration would support the program Congress…
The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has worsened significantly, and the country’s ability to contain the spread has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, American officials said this week. The officials, representing a variety of health and security agencies, made the assessment during a meeting with U.S. Embassy staff in Kampala,…
A rapidly spreading and unidentified illness has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, sparking urgent investigations by international health organisations. The outbreak, which began after three children reportedly consumed a bat, has raised concerns about a potential new zoonotic disease. The illness was first detected…
As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients stood outside, baffled that the…
A sell-off in the biggest technology companies in the United States rippled into Asia on Tuesday, with stock markets in Japan falling as U.S. markets appeared to stabilize. Japan’s tech-heavy Nikkei 225 fell 1.4 percent with Softbank, the Japanese investment firm with major holdings in the technology sector, falling about 5 percent. Arm Holdings, the…
Dhanashree Verma and Yuzvendra Chahal file photo NEW DELHI: Amid rumours of everything not being well between India cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and social media influencer wife Dhanashree Verma, the latter on Wednesday hit out at ‘faceless’ trolls for spreading fake news.In a social media post, a fuming Dhanashree said that the murmur and false news…
For centuries in Morlaix, a city of cobblestones and creperies on the Breton coast of France, the best-known dealers were the ones who traded in linen during the Renaissance and built a number of unique half-timbered houses in the middle of town. The new dealers are another story. France, long a major European market for…