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Ukraine is probing about 13,000 cases of alleged Russian war crimes, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said Monday. Some 20 countries including Italy, Greece and Denmark announced new security assistance packages for Kyiv during a virtual meeting with allies, according to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. Read our live blog to…

Boris Johnson says ‘important we keep an eye’ on virus as Scotland gets first case

A virus causing patients fever, rash, and exhaustion has reached three more countries. A man in Vienna was taken to hospital with sores on his face.

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave

President said officials are determining ‘what vaccine if any might be available for it’ after US already ordered millions of doses of smallpox vaccine that is effective against monkeypox

As monkeypox spreads around the world, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has set up a Public Health Crisis Command Centre to monitor the situation worldwide and set short-, mid- and long-term response strategies.

Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, Polish President Andrzej Duda told lawmakers in Kyiv on Sunday, becoming the first foreign leader to give an in-person speech to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Saturday that the situation in Donbas had become…

David Heymann says experts developing guidance for countries, as New York City resident tests positive for Orthopoxvirus

‘This is not the kind of spread we’ve seen in West Africa, so there may be something new happening in the West,’ one expert said