Joe Biden’s campaign focused on COVID-19, racial justice, climate change and tax reforms. We tracked 99 promises.
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Dr. Khaled al-Saedni works at a hospital in Gaza and tells how he cares for patients after losing a leg.
The late patient had been hospitalised in December with severe respiratory symptoms after contact with infected birds.
Humanitarian teams from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation have arrived in northern Gaza.
The CDC has already reported a significant rise in clusters of infections, just two months into norovirus season.
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Beijing insists it has shared information on the coronavirus ‘without holding anything back’.
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Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has been condemned amid demands to release director whose whereabouts are unknown.
Israel has been attacking hospitals and displacement shelters for more than a year now, killing tens of thousands.
WHO says Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘now empty’ after Israeli forces raid facility, detain dozens of medical staff.
Scientists have engineered the pests to provide enhanced immunity to the disease they transmit, according to new study.
Air pollution has become a major problem in Pakistan and it is children who are paying the price.
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Health authorities said the disease presents in the form of a respiratory illness.
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Cases of colorectal cancer among younger people are rising in the UK, Chile and New Zealand. Why?
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Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout was reporting on aid in a Gaza hospital, when an Israeli attack struck nearby.
