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WHO chief begs Israel to show ‘mercy’ in Gaza

GENEVA – Fighting back tears, the head of the World Health Organization has urged Israel to have “mercy” in the Gaza war and insisted...

WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

Geneva, Switzerland—The World Health Organization's member states on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, after more than three years of...

WHO chief says Lebanon health system ‘struggling to cope’

Geneva, Switzerland—The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned Tuesday that Lebanon's health system was struggling to keep up, after Israel escalated airstrikes and launched ground...

WHO says mpox outbreaks ‘can be stopped’

Geneva, Switzerland—Outbreaks of mpox in Central Africa "can be stopped," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but $135 million of funding may be...

Gazan health care ‘on its knees’, half of hospitals down

UNITED NATIONS—The health care system in the Gaza Strip is “on its knees,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Friday, noting that...

WHO warns up to 23m people could be affected by 7.8 tremor

Geneva—Up to 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, the WHO warned on...

WHO declares COVID still global crisis, pandemic at transition point

Geneva—Three years to the day after the World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the highest level of global alert over COVID-19, it said Monday the...

Mouth diseases hit nearly half of the world’s people—WHO

Rotting teeth, swollen gums, and oral cancers: nearly half the world's population suffer from mouth diseases, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new report...

WHO: Too early to lift global emergency status of COVID

The World Health Organization said it is too early to lift the highest-level alert for the COVID-19 crisis, with the pandemic remaining a global...

WHO studying if COVID still merits highest alert

The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 emergency committee has started discussions if the pandemic still warrants the highest level of alarm the UN health agency...

WHO: Expect global rise in COVID cases

The World Health Organization is bracing for a global spike in new COVID-19 cases due to the colder weather that would push more activities...

WHO tempers COVID gauge; end still far off

The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday tempered his assertion that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was near, warning that declaring...

End is in sight for pandemic —WHO chief

The number of newly reported COVID-19 cases have dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to...

WHO sees more COVID patients, deaths in winter

An increase in global hospitalization and deaths from COVID-19 in the coming months is “reasonable to expect,” a World Health Organization (WHO) official said. In...
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