‘Riding a motorcycle here is such a gamble – it is only by luck that you reach your destination.’

Motorbike ownership is booming in Kenya – and so are road accidents. But a simple safety measure remains largely ignored.

Tom Parry reports from Nairobi.
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A simple policy change could ‘eliminate’ snakebite deaths in the Amazon.

The jungle is a hotspot for deadly serpents, but modelling now proves lives and money could be saved be expanding antivenom stocks.

Sarah Newey has the latest.
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🐄—'Experts fear that H5N1 avian flu… may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called “poultry litter”—mix of poultry poop, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants.'
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Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows.

Experts warn that lax regulations could also see the virus spread to US pig farms, with serious consequences for human health.

✍️Maeve Cullinan and Sarah Newey
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Hospital infections kill hundreds of thousands in sub-Saharan Africa, research shows.

Improved sanitation could prevent at least half of cases, which are costing the region as much as $8.4 billion each year.

Lilia Sebouai reports.
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The fight for reproductive rights has gone digital – platforms like Meta and Google must pick a side.

Tech giants face a choice: continue to focus on the bottom line at the expense of misinformation, or support the lives of women and girls

✍️ New Op-ed.
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Yesterday, I was at #Rwanda ’s 30th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi, to honor the memory of over 1 million lives lost.

I felt again the impact and the hope that modern Rwanda, my new home, represents. My full reflection via the The Telegraph:
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How dirty air became the world’s silent killer.

“Air pollution threatens us all, but the poorest and most marginalised people bear the brunt of the burden.”

Full story below ⬇️
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“I left the United States for a country where black lives do matter – Rwanda.”

Thirty years after one of history’s worst genocides, the country is full of promise and potential, Professor Senait Fisseha writes in new Op-ed.

Link here 🔗
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How South Sudan’s first female eye doctor is saving thousands from blindness.

“We are treating 100 patients a day, nobody would believe we are treating these huge numbers. We are breaking our backs.”

Free to read 🔓
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Could South Korea’s maternity retreats solve its population crisis?

Part-neonatal unit, part-luxe hotel, Charlotte Lytton reports of how these centres are attempting to make motherhood more appealing.

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‘It threatens us all’: How dirty air became the world’s silent killer.

Air pollution endangers 99 per cent of the world’s population, figures show, but its effects are felt most acutely in the global south.

Maeve Cullinan reports.
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How international law could force Britain to stop arms sales to Israel.

Legal experts warn ministers that they could be ‘complicit in genocide’ if arms sales continue.

Q&A with Paul Nuki and Samuel Lovett - free to read ⬇️
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Children hit hard as landmine casualties almost triple in Myanmar.

Buried bombs are robbing children of their limbs as landmine as casualties rise to 1,052 in Myanmar.

Sarah Newey has the latest.
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How South Sudan’s first female eye doctor is saving thousands from blindness.

Travelling to the nation’s most isolated villages with MAF UK, Dr Aja Kuol treats patients on a daily basis in operations that can last just 30 minutes.

✍️ Lilia Sebouai
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Sperm counts fall as temperatures rise, new research suggests.

Scientists in Singapore found that men in their prime had low sperm counts after being in the heat.

Sarah Newey reports.
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The deadly deep freeze that has decimated millions of farm animals in Mongolia.

The nation is in the grip of a weather phenomenon known as the ‘dzud’. Is climate change to blame?

✍️ Nicola Smith and Khaliun Bayartsogt
📷 Simon Townsley
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US alert as H5N1 bird flu reported in person exposed to infected cattle.

Experts worry the highly pathogenic virus could yet mutate to be passed human to human.

Sarah Newey has the latest.
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Americas dengue outbreak is the ‘worst to date.’

The rapid spread of dengue has already resulted in 1,000 deaths so far this year throughout the region.

Link here 🔗
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The numbers of dead in Gaza don’t add up – and there is no easy explanation.

Why have a disproportionate number of male UNRWA workers been killed? Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ explores this and more difficult questions about the conduct of the war and its death toll.
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