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Analysts: Sudan Could Play Key Role in Tigray Conflict

KHARTOUM — As thou­sands of Ethiopi­ans flee the Tigray con­flict into neigh­bor­ing Sudan, ana­lysts in Khar­toum say Sudan could play a key role in the con­flict.  Sudan is chan­nel­ing the refugees — esti­mat­ed to be at least 20,000 —

WHO Says Vaccine Announcement Encouraging, More Data Needed

Experts at the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) say the news Mon­day of anoth­er COVID-19 vac­cine can­di­date is encour­ag­ing but more infor­ma­tion is need­ed and, as new virus cas­es surge around the world, it is no time to be complacent.

Thousands of Refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray Region Fleeing Violence

The bor­der town of Ham­day­at, Sudan, is now home to thou­sands of refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region flee­ing vio­lence. Among the esti­mat­ed 8,000 who have arrived in recent days are the par­ents of sev­en-month-old twins born pre­ma­ture­ly, lay­ing on a

New App Identifies Mosquitoes by Buzzing Sound

The high-pitched whine of a mos­qui­to is annoy­ing, but sci­en­tists have devel­oped an app that uses that sound to detect dan­ger­ous mos­qui­toes. Mos­qui­toes kill hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple each year by spread­ing microbes that cause dis­eases such as malaria,

Power Struggle at Downing Street Boosts Hopes of Brexit Deal

The depar­ture from Down­ing Street of two of British Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son’s key aides, com­bined with the pro­ject­ed U.S. elec­tion out­come, is mak­ing it more like­ly that Britain will con­clude a post-Brex­it trade deal with the Euro­pean Union, some

WHO Head ‘Extremely Concerned’ by Increase in Coronavirus Cases

The head of the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion says the agency is “extreme­ly con­cerned” by a surge of coro­n­avirus cas­es, par­tic­u­lar­i­ty in Europe and North Amer­i­ca. Tedros Adhanom Ghe­breye­sus told reporters Mon­day at a reg­u­lar brief­ing in Gene­va that the case