worsened in 2021. Political manipulation led to a sharp surge in COVID-19 deaths; Shooting deaths hit a new record; Fake democracy trampled on people's political rights; Violent law enforcement made life harder for migrants and refugees; Discrimination against ethnic minority groups, especially Asia...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held talks, witnessed the signing of a number of cooperation documents and jointly met with the press on the sidelines of the fourth Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia. Remote Weapons Come of Age During ...
Although death is inevitable, individuals have long sought to alter the course of the ageing process. Indeed, ageing has proved to be modifiable; by intervening in biological systems, such as nutrient sensing, cellular senescence, the systemic environmen
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said at press conference that, "We live in an interconnected world. And so while some countries may have been able to end the emergency phase of this pandemic, we don't see that in all countries worldwide. So we need to con...
[15][18] Although he was born out of wedlock, Erasmus was cared for by his parents, with a loving household and the best education, until their early deaths from the bubonic plague in 1483. His only sibling Peter might have been born in 1463, and some writers suggest Margaret was a ...
[5]Cited in John Moses,The Desert: An Anthology for Lent(Norwich: The Canterbury Press, 1997), 62. Share this: Twitter Facebook Tumblr Pieter Brueghel,The Blind Leading the Blind(1658). Note to reader: This is a post from 2021, revised to include comments on the moral blindness of admi...
Israeli bombardment has turned neighborhoods into rubble. Families have been torn apart by deaths andforced displacement; thethreat of starvationlooms. At the same time, 129 of the more than 250 hostages seized from Israel by Hamas remain captive in the te...
Based on their investigations, they concluded that the death toll of 4000 people [8,90] due to the 1945 Makran tsunami is overestimated and the actual number of deaths is in the order of a couple of hundreds. A field survey was carried out in 2010 to investigate and report the impacts ...
In 2019, the European Union, consisting of 27 member states, reported 5175 foodborne outbreaks, with 49,463 illnesses, 3859 hospitalizations, and 60 deaths [28]. In this context, outbreaks related to Listeria and Salmonella infections significantly cause the highest number of diseases. These facts...
diseases, injuries, and risk factors: deaths and death rates, years of life lost (YLLs) due to premature mortality, prevalence and prevalence rates for sequelae, years lived with disability (YLDs), and DALYs (Box; Sections 2, 3, and 5 in Supplement 1 and Appendix Table 2 in Supplement 2...