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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.
Weakened by the U.S. withdrawal and other countries’ cutting foreign aid spending, the WHO was forced to undergo sweeping reforms last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2026
China announces candidate for WHO chief
The move could signal intent to expand its influence at the WHO, even though questions persist about Beijing’s transparency over COVID-19.
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 view of the Medical Assistance and Rescue Center, an infectious diseases hospital, in the town of Shelekhov, Russia, on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies
The death has sparked public health fears on social media, but the authorities said on Monday the situation was under control.
A medical worker administers the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Tokyo in June 2021.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 29, 2026
Japan can lead the world in making preventive health pay
Japan can strengthen healthy aging and economic resilience by expanding adult respiratory vaccination to reduce disease burden.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A woman with an umbrella walks at Plaza Puerta del Sol during a spring heat wave in Madrid on May 27.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 2, 2026
Net-zero champion Europe snared by climate change on its doorstep
June’s record-breaking heat wave in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global warming in a continent once complacent about its relatively gentle climate.
A healthcare worker takes samples from a patient suffering from Ebola.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 26, 2026
Ebola scientists lack access to virus samples behind Congo’s largest Bundibugyo outbreak
The issue highlights growing disputes over pathogen sharing and the difficulty of moving infectious materials across borders for research.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks with international health officials from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Ugandan health authorities during a news conference at the Ebola isolation unit at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on June 8.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 25, 2026
Global Ebola risk ‘remains low,’ WHO chief says after France case
France announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory: a doctor who had flown back from the?Congo.
Nyamurongo cemetery, one of the burial sites receiving a large number of people who have died from Ebola since the beginning of the recent outbreak in Bunia, Ituri Province, Congo, on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 16, 2026
Ebola cases top 800 in Congo as aid groups warn outbreak may be larger than reported
The outbreak, already the third largest Ebola epidemic on record and the biggest caused by the Bundibugyo strain, has spread across eastern Congo and into neighboring Uganda.
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.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘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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