Country: Afghanistan Source: Norwegian Refugee Council Early estimates in the Afghan provinces of Khost and Paktika indicate that the earthquake took the lives of more than a thousand people, with the death toll likely to rise.

Singapore has reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Southeast Asia during this year’s outbreak — while two further suspected cases of the disease have been found in South Korea.

On 15 June 2022, the Supreme Court issued the long-awaited decision in the American Hospital Association v. Becerra case examining whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had the authority to make certain payment cuts.1 CMS implemented payment cuts to 340B Program safety net hospitals in 2018, such […]

The “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure among middle-aged women, following a large study from researchers in the United States. The chemicals, a group of synthetic polymers first introduced in the 1930s, have thousands of different […]

Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world’s biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 661 pounds (about 300 kilograms), and took around a dozen men to haul to shore.

High level policy forum: Encouraging continued food systems transformation in the ASEAN region in the wake of COVID-19 Jun 21, 2022 jmcquaid Tue, 06/21/2022 – 11:46 High level policy forum: Encouraging continued food systems transformation in the ASEAN region in the wake of COVID-19 Rebika Laishram Southeast Asian countries pursue […]

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and Alice Nderitu expressed deep alarm about the impact of the recent increase in hostilities between the M23 armed group and the armed forces of the DRC on the local population.

Photo: Pixabay/kirahoffmann  When looking at the future, some people may have a bleak opinion of what might be left after years of farming. Sustainable food comes from responsible sources. Yet not enough people may know how to find out whether their food was harvested or raised sustainably. The way to […]