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Time to work together to close vaccine gap putting children and communities at risk Johannesburg, 28 August 2025: South Africa is facing a growing public health concern, as large numbers of children miss out on life-saving vaccinations. According to Dr Zeina Elian, Vaccines Medical Head for Sanofi Africa, the country is seeing a resurgence in ‘zero dose’ communities. These are areas where children have not received a single routine vaccine. In low-dose communities, under-immunisation is similarly leaving many children at risk for preventable diseases. “We are seeing entire groups of children falling through the cracks,” says Dr Elian. “If these children remain…

Bernie Sanders has joined in on growing public calls for Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign, after recent chaos across US health agencies.In an op-ed published in the New York Times on Saturday, the Vermont senator accused Kennedy of “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future”, adding: “He must resign.”“Mr Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr…

111 There has been growing concern and confusion worldwide after the hashtag #TrumpIsDead trended on social media platforms on Friday evening. The speculation surrounding the health and whereabouts of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump started after a brief disruption in the White House livestream, followed by a series of cryptic comments by Vice President JD Vance. As the rumors spread quickly, no official confirmation has been given by the White House or Trump’s representatives, leaving many to wonder about the true state of the former president’s health. The rumors began when Vice President JD Vance made an unusual remark…

Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025Hundreds of Palestinians have fled Gaza City, piling their few remaining possessions onto pick-up trucks and donkey carts as Israel’s deadly bombings and forced displacement campaign intensifies in the area.Families fleeing the Israeli military’s relentless bombardment have begun setting up makeshift tents amid miserable conditions in an area west of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, to the south of Gaza City near Deir el-Balah.Most of them have been forced to leave their homes more than once.“We are thrown in the streets, like what would I say? Like dogs? We are not like dogs. Dogs…

Aug 30, 2025, 01:43 PM ETAfter an entertaining Week 0 appetizer and a smattering of games Thursday and Friday, it’s time for Week 1 of the college football season to finally kick off. And the game to start off the first full Saturday of the season couldn’t be much better.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedIt’s the Texas Longhorns vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes. It’s the No. 1 and No. 3 teams in the preseason AP poll facing off. It’s a College Football Playoff rematch and Arch Manning’s first major test as starter against the defending national champions.Needless to say, it’s going to be…

Adam Raine was just 16 when he started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. While his initial prompts to the AI chatbot were about subjects like geometry and chemistry – questions like: “What does it mean in geometry if it says Ry=1” – in just a matter of months he began asking about more personal topics.“Why is it that I have no happiness, I feel loneliness, perpetual boredom anxiety and loss yet I don’t feel depression, I feel no emotion regarding sadness,” he asked ChatGPT in the fall of 2024.Instead of urging Raine to seek mental health help, ChatGPT…

Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement has confirmed that its self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this week.The Iran-backed group said several other senior officials were killed when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Thursday.The IDF said at the time that it attacked a Houthi “military target” in the Sanaa area, giving no further details.The Houthis have controlled much of north-western Yemen since 2014, after ousting the internationally recognised government from Sanaa and triggering a devastating civil war.The Houthis said Rahawi had been killed alongside several Houthi ministers, though…

She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of quiet seclusion. Now, at the age of 92, one of the last of the great, glamorous movie stars of Hollywood’s golden era is back in the spotlight. She is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice film festival, where a documentary about her life and career, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, is premiering.For Novak, it is a tribute not just to her acting but to her lifelong refusal to be…

Syria is marking its first International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad, as the country grapples with lingering questions over the fate of the many thousands who disappeared during the country’s civil war.In a report released on Saturday to coincide with the annual commemoration, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said this year holds “particular significance” as it received a major increase in the number of cases since al-Assad was toppled in December.Desperate families flocked to former detention centres, prisons, morgues, and mass grave sites to try to find their…

The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has suspended the license of Evanex Gold Enterprise, a licensed gold buyer (Tier 2), with immediate effect. The Board explained that the action followed investigative findings which revealed that the company had engaged in illegal gold pricing, contrary to the terms of its license. GoldBod is therefore cautioning all licensed traders, miners, and the public to desist from conducting any form of gold transaction with the company. It assured the public that it remains committed to enforcing the laws and regulations of the gold trading sector in the spirit of accountability and transparency. Related Articles…