There’s no doubting what The Economist reports.
Anyone who does… should check for themselves.
Awful.

…”en faveur d’une transition juste et pacifique de la dictature à la démocratie “

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nothing like ending a long week with…

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

A healthy society is one that is happier, safer and more stable than it otherwise would be. One that is more productive too.
Public health - like education - is where a smart govt should invest its resources.

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A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled.

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

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'Unbelievable pain and suffering': How a common throat infection can rewire children's brains Strep throat is a common childhood illness, but in a few children this bacteria infection can lead to alarming, lasting changes in behaviour.

A chilling consequence of throat infection - albeit (and thankfully) in a very small proportion of children.

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Engineering mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria - a disease that still kills over half a million people each year.

Risk assessment tools for WHO Member States

📢 New: A one-stop webpage with WHO’s risk assessment tools to help countries respond faster to health threats.

Includes tools for:
🔸 Infectious disease outbreaks
🔸 Disasters
🔸 Chemical hazards
🔸 Preparing for large events

👉 bit.ly/41yJqwF

GPEI-Honoring Sebastião Salgado A tribute to a visionary who captured the humanity behind polio eradication

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Love it! Beautiful colour combination - and a mix of the peaceful and the dramatic…

All are beautiful but the colours, the textures and the angle of the one, top left, makes it my favourite one.
I can also smell the briny air and feel the wind…

BREAKING - WHO Director General Shakes Up Agency With Brand New Leadership Team - Health Policy Watch A brand-new World Health Organization (WHO) leadership team has been announced, including a dramatically reduced number of leaders and a major shake-out of

“Facing a $600 million shortfall in 2025 and a $1.7 billion funding gap for the 2026-27 biennium, the WHO reorganisation would cut the number of departments at HQ by nearly half – from 76 department directors as of Jan 2025 to34 departments and directors.”
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Licorice allsorts, up close

This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Mindblowing.

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

Beautiful calendar! The craft and attention to details is impressive. I love the dove and her olive branch…