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Maria Gladys Primo believes her children survived, as she recognised her son in a rescue image, but only four reunions have occurred in attempt to reunite families

There are two forms of polio: wild polio and vaccine-derived or variant polio. Both can cause paralysis and death, but wild polio is rarer and now only endemic to Afghanistan and Pakistan

A jury in federal court in Chicago ordered Boeing on Wednesday to pay more than $28m (R476.58m) to the family of a UN environmental worker killed in the 2019 crash of a 737 MAX jet in Ethiopia.

Most big emerging economies, including China, Brazil and India, can weather US tariffs without excessive pain, a study by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft showed, raising doubt about the clout of President Donald Trump’s trade tools.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday pushed back against criticism from some US allies over the legality of the US strikes in the Caribbean, saying Europeans don’t get to dictate how Washington defends its national security.

France marks the 10th anniversary on Thursday of attacks in Paris in which Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a rampage through cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall, and many survivors are still traumatised.

House Democrats on Wednesday released e-mails that they said raised new questions about President Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history, hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hob

The US military has conducted at least 19 strikes against suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, resulting in at least 76 deaths

The wild form of the poliovirus, specifically Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WPV1), has been detected in sewage samples in Germany, as reported by the Robert Koch Institute. This marks the first detection of the wild virus in environmental samples since routine monitoring began in 2021, and comes over 30 years after the last recorded human infections in Germany, although no current human infections have been reported.

Africa, with its abundant critical minerals, seeks to transition from being an importer to a producer of clean energy technologies, as highlighted by initiatives in Nigeria, Morocco, South Africa and Egypt

Israel reopened the Zikim Crossing in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid trucks into the enclave on Wednesday, says Cogat, the Israeli military’s arm that oversees aid flows.

British health minister Wes Streeting denied on Wednesday he is plotting to bring down Keir Starmer after allies of the prime minister briefed newspapers that they fear an attempted coup could come later this month after the budget.

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategise for worst-case scenarios, the country’s climate minister told Reuters.

For Anthony DeSousa, owner of two pizza shops in Estes Park and Longmont, Colorado, feeding the hungry is personal. He grew up in poverty in New York and his dad was in jail for most of his life, leaving his mother to raise him and his two brothers.