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Over the past three decades the world has made great strides in the battle against polio, with only 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 (AFP Photo/NOORULLAH SHIRZADA)

Philippines hit by first polio case since 2001

The Philippines has detected its first case of polio since 2001, officials said Thursday, putting some of the blame on mistrust stoked by a dengue...

Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to strike from school every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP

Meet America’s climate revolutionaries as protestors take to the streets

As a growing world youth movement for climate action takes to the streets today in many cities around the world, America remains ground zero in the...

Students on stage lead young protesters in chants during a Global Strike 4 Climate rally at Civic Square in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 20 September 2019. It is estimated that more than 1,000 people were in attendance, among them many students who had left school to join the worldwide day of protest. The Global Strike 4 Climate is being held only days ahead of the scheduled United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA-EFE

Children in Australia, Pacific launch global climate strike

Children in Australia and the Pacific Islands kicked off a millions-strong global climate strike Friday -- heeding the rallying cry of teen activist...

Protesters react as US rapper Jaden Smith preforms at the Youth Climate Strike in Battery Park in New York, New York, USA, 20 September 2019. An estimated quarter of a million people marched in New York to protest government inaction on the climate crisis. Photo: Peter Foley/EPA

Millions protest in youth-led global climate strike

Masses of children skipped school Friday to join a global strike against climate change that teen activist Greta Thunberg said was "only the...

A Bangladeshi farmer processes paddy produce in Mirpur embankment area near the Turag river during the harvesting season in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA

Bangladesh rural poor bear financial burden of climate change: study

Poor, rural Bangladeshis are spending far more than the government and aid agencies to combat the impacts of climate change, diverting what little...

US President Donald J. Trump. Photo: EPA

Stock rally fizzles as hopes for end to US-China trade war dim

A rally on hopes for progress in the US-China trade war fizzled late Friday, sending Wall Street into the red after bourses elsewhere had drifted...

In this handout photograph taken by India's Ministry of Defence on September 19, 2019, Indian Coast Guard personnel (up) pose for photographs as they keep watch on a Myanmarese ship's crew after seizing 1160 kg of Ketamine drug from their boat near Car Nicobar islands, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Photo: AFP

India seizes one tonne of ketamine on boat, arrests six Myanmar crew

India's coast guard has arrested six Myanmar men and seized $42 million worth of ketamine after spotting a suspicious vessel in the Indian Ocean near...

Refugee settlements in Bangladesh are home to nearly a million Rohingya (AFP Photo/MUNIR UZ ZAMAN)

Refugee ‘bandit’ couple killed in Bangladesh gunfight

A Rohingya couple was shot dead during a gunfight in a border town camp hours after they were detained by Bangladesh police, officials said Sunday,...