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Congolese medical workers carry the coffin containing the body of a doctor who died at an Ebola treatment center after contracting the virus, during her burial in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The world’s perilous Ebola complacency
Global leaders must fund the Africa-led regional response today, or risk paying a higher price in human lives and economic devastation tomorrow.
Travelers stand next to a banner displayed near a health screening station at Murtala Muhammed International Airport following reports of an Ebola case in Nigeria, in Lagos on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 23, 2026
Africa faces ‘complex’ Ebola outbreak after spread to Nigeria, WHO warns
Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, is the fourth African country affected by the outbreak.
A worker visits a patient in an isolation unit at an Ebola treatment center in Monigi, Congo, in June.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Ebola spreads ‘like wildfire’ as health workers battle exhaustion
The widening footprint of hot spots is straining a humanitarian response weakened by major aid cuts.
A team of volunteer medical workers carry away the body of a truck driver who collapsed and died in Marabo, Congo, on Aug. 22.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2026
Ebola is hollowing out basic healthcare as Congo’s outbreak surpasses 8,000 cases
Use of seven essential health services has fallen 42% in four major Ebola hotspots in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, according to ACAPS.
Congolese medical workers carry children as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 9.
WORLD
Sep 14, 2026
Congo’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic passes 7,000 cases
Authorities suggested the spread of the disease may already have peaked, despite the virus having been confirmed in a seventh province recently.
A M23 rebel group member stands guard as provincial authorities visit the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute, where samples from suspected Ebola cases are tested, in Goma, Congo, on May 19.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2026
Congo continues struggling to pay the people fighting its Ebola outbreaks
Congo recorded 3,007 deaths from Ebola as of Monday, and payment disputes are interfering with some of the basic work needed to contain the outbreak.
Volunteers with the Democratic Republic of Congo Red Cross carry the body of an Ebola victim for transfer to a burial site in Ituri province, DRC, on June 8.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Ebola is back — and the IMF’s relief fund is empty
The IMF should provide immediate debt relief to Ebola-hit countries and use part of its gold reserves to permanently fund future health emergencies.
Members of the Civil Protection team, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), disinfect after handling the body of a man who died of Ebola, in Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 19, 2026
Congo Ebola outbreak ‘far from being under control’: WHO chief
Congolese officials said on Monday that the outbreak had killed over 2,300 people out of nearly 5,000 cases, making it the deadliest in the country’s history.
The Nyamurongo cemetery, one of the burial sites receiving a large number of people who have died from Ebola virus disease since the beginning of the outbreak, in Bunia, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on June 13.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 17, 2026
Ebola outbreak in Congo becomes deadliest in country’s history
Government data shows that 2,325 people have died from the disease, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak.
Congolese medical workers carry children tested and cleared off from Ebola from Saint Nicholas orphanage, at the Centre Medical Evangelique in the town of Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on June 9.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2026
Ebola is driving up maternal deaths as pregnant women in Congo avoid hospitals
Medical staff and supplies are also being diverted to fight the virus.
A volunteer makes announcements while intercepting a passenger boat after a passenger who had disembarked earlier died following the development of symptoms consistent with Ebola, in Kinshasa, Congo, on Aug. 5.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 10, 2026
Ebola case count set to increase as Congo officials track hidden infections
The shift comes as confirmed cases climbed to 4,209 and deaths totaled 1,916, pushing the outbreak’s crude case-fatality ratio to 45.5%.
Red Cross workers walk in a formation as they disinfect Rwampara General Hospital before handling the body of a person who died of Ebola, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on May 21.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 6, 2026
Why Congo’s Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than previous epidemics
Health officials say the current epidemic is spreading five times faster than previous outbreaks did at this stage.
Congolese medical workers carry children tested and cleared off from Ebola from Saint Nicholas orphanage in Ituri province, Congo, on June 9.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2026
WHO pleads for more support to tackle Ebola outbreak
The outbreak is the biggest ever to have hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite being declared less than three months ago.
Members of the Civil Protection, a local community-based team that works to help mitigate the spread of the Ebola virus and ensure burials happen safely and quickly, load the body of an unidentified man into a coffin after retrieving it from his house, in Bunia, Ituri province, Congo, on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 29, 2026
A day in the life of Congo’s overstretched Ebola surveillance teams
In clinic after clinic, an inspection of the records showed staff had ?failed to report some suspected Ebola cases to central authorities.
Workers line up to disinfect their protective equipment at General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu during the Ebola outbreak response in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, eastern Congo, on May 20.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 27, 2026
Ebola outbreak in Congo set to become second-largest on record after confirmed cases reach 3,200
The latest figures highlight the scale of the epidemic, though expanded surveillance and retrospective case finding have also contributed to the rapid rise in reported infections.
A health worker checks his personal protective equipment during a training exercise by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on July 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 20, 2026
U.S. and Congo Ebola travel curbs may hamper humanitarian aid response
The overlapping restrictions threaten to slow the deployment and rotation of doctors, nurses and other specialists needed to contain the epidemic.
A health worker takes a woman’s temperature as part of Ebola screening efforts in Goma.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 18, 2026
‘Walking Ebola’ helps explain why Congo’s outbreak is so hard to stop — and how to treat it
The virus’s slower progression leaves patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities.
Health workers in personal protective equipment practice safety check protocols on each other during a training by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 14, 2026
First human trial of Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine begins
The early-stage trial will enroll 50 healthy adults to assess the vaccine’s safety and immune response.
Employees at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, Congo, on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 6, 2026
Experimental Ebola trial begins in Congo as death toll tops 500
The outbreak has already infected almost 1,600 people in Congo and seeded a small number of linked cases in neighboring Uganda.
Health workers receive a patient at the Rwampara General Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May.
WORLD
Jul 3, 2026
More than 400 dead in Congo’s spreading Ebola outbreak
The highly infectious disease has had a fatality rate of just over 31% since the outbreak was declared in May.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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