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LONDON: More than a million children in the Gaza Strip are at risk of contracting the highly contagious poliovirus type 2, which can cause paralysis and even death. Displacement and the destruction of sanitation infrastructure have left people vulnerable to the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to send 1.2 million doses of … Read more

BELFAST: A week of racist unrest in Northern Ireland that began with riots in English towns and cities continues, with concerns that sectarian divisions in the English region are spilling over into violence.“They burned everything down, there was nothing left inside, just ash,” said Bashir, whose supermarket in Belfast was torched in an attack on … Read more

SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE: Proving that it’s not impossible to surpass Paris, Los Angeles mobilized skydiving Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other stars on Sunday to hand over the 2028 Olympics to the French capital, which just as it began the 2024 Games, ended them with joy and pride.Paris brought the Olympics to a close … Read more

PARIS: The sheer ambition of the Paris Olympics made it difficult to monitor and police, but French security forces kept thousands of athletes and millions of fans safe in what Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called a “gold medal” achievement.The two-week sporting event, which ended on Sunday, was preceded by a security operation unprecedented in recent … Read more