There’s no doubting what The Economist reports.
Anyone who does… should check for themselves.
Awful.
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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 “
10.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
10.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 3344 🔁 848 💬 157 📌 182Nothing like ending a long week with…
20.09.2025 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A 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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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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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
Love it! Beautiful colour combination - and a mix of the peaceful and the dramatic…
15.05.2025 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0All 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…
“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.”
healthpolicy-watch.news/who-director...
Licorice allsorts, up close
This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Mindblowing.
11.12.2024 14:52 — 👍 311 🔁 56 💬 25 📌 7Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
03.04.2025 18:33 — 👍 5826 🔁 1289 💬 100 📌 114Beautiful calendar! The craft and attention to details is impressive. I love the dove and her olive branch…
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