2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (249+ words) (Bloomberg) -- Ebola has now spread to a seventh province in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a 23-year-old man tested positive for the virus following a cross-country journey that included travel through neighboring Rwanda and Uganda. The man had left…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (362+ words) (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund is considering making pandemic preparedness reforms part of its financing program for the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the country’s worsening Ebola epidemic exposes weaknesses in how it funds and responds to health emergencies. Congo…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) (Bloomberg) -- This summer, Europe’s weather has triggered widespread consternation and worry. Weeks without rain, record-breaking temperatures, failed harvests and widespread fires have been difficult to ignore, for the public, for investors — and for politicians. “The heat waves and the wildfires…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (801+ words) (Bloomberg) -- Six Ebola checkpoints in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo stopped reporting last month because the people staffing them hadn’t been paid. Elsewhere, officials checking a list of 240 people supposedly working at an Ebola center could find only 40 of the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (540+ words) Britain’s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly about the emotional difficulty of keeping King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis private in the days before Buckingham Palace announced his illness in February 2024. Camilla recalled visiting a Maggie’s cancer support centre shortly after Charles…...