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New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, reveal signs of immunisation services rebounding in some countries, but coverage still falls short of pre-pandemic levels, particularly in low-income countries, putting children at grave risk of disease outbreaks.

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic in a five-set thriller to win his maiden Wimbledon title on Sunday. The world number 1 bagged the game 1-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

Google Doodle on Sunday featured Indian American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi, who is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists associated with the minimalist movement. Zarina...

Basema Al-Alami writes on the startling history of entrapment and over-policing against Canadian Muslims at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and a recent academic study that has shed a light on these practices across the country.

Jen Webb, University of Canberra Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in...

United Nations-appointed independent human rights experts on Wednesday condemned the forced eviction and displacement of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem by Israeli police, warning the operations may amount to a war crime of forcible transfer.

Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a prolonged illness.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday approved a resolution on religious hatred and bigotry in the wake of a Quran burning in Sweden that led to protests across the...

Among the exhibit’s visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in the massacre in their city.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join NATO after a year of blocking the move, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday. Stoltenberg said...

A Canadian court has ruled that the “thumbs-up” emoji is just as valid as a signature, arguing that courts need to adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate. Judge TJ Keene of the King's Bench for Saskatchewan ordered a farmer to pay $61,442 for an unfulfilled contract.

Six people, including three children, have been killed and one injured in a stabbing at a kindergarten in southern China.