Afghanistan

Russia&s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Zelenskiy said many places lacked even basic antibiotics in eastern and southern Ukraine, the main battlefields.

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Fifty-three people died when a housing block collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha last week, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday after days of rescue efforts.

Rescuers have pulled 10 survivors from the rubble of the eight-storey &self-built& house in Hunan province that collapsed on April 29, according to CCTV.

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Afghanistan continued to face a severe liquidity crisis this quarter with access to physical bank notes constrained and banks facing major liquidity challenges due to declining economic activity, lack of trust in the banking center among Afghans, and an inability to transact internationally.

The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR)...

The official death toll from the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic is about 5.4 million.

But according to a new World Health Organization report, the actual number is around three times higher than that.

The U.N. body said on Thursday there were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 by the end of 2021.

Excess deaths are the...