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Sandstorms affect 330 million people globally: WMO

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has reported that sand and dust storms affect 330 million people in more than 150 countries worldwide, causing growing harm to both public health and the global economy. In the annual WMO Airborne Dust Bulletin, the organisation stressed the need to continue enhancing monitoring, forecasting and

Swiss authority approves first drug to treat infants sick with malaria

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives, nearly all in Africa, each year. Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company

The best books on Endangered Languages

Out of 7000 languages on the planet, 700 of them can be found in New York, and many of those are endangered – Samantha Ellis There is usually a lot of violence and displacement in the stories of these languages becoming endangered. The monolingual empire drains the energy from other cultures Samantha Ellis’s book Chopping

INDEX signs agreement with Egypt’s UPA to enhance strategic cooperation

INDEX Conferences and Exhibitions, a member of INDEX Holding and one of the UAE’s leading organisers of specialised events, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement, Medical Supply, and Technology Management (UPA) during the fourth edition of Africa Health ExCon 2025 at the Egypt

AFC President backs Asian teams to excel in US

As the world turns its attention to the inaugural expanded 32-team FIFA Club World Cup 2025, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has expressed confidence in the potential of Asia's four participating teams to deliver exceptional performances. Set to feature some of the Continent’s