Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Centre (CEM), in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. — Reuters GENEVA: Nearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a WHO overview showed Saturday, amid mounting concern over the swelling scale…
Standard Chartered and USDC issuer Circle have developed a system that lets institutional clients mint and redeem the USDC stablecoin through a bank-led onboarding process. Standard Chartered said Thursday it is the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer such services for USDC, bringing stablecoin access into the same risk, compliance and governance frameworks…
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers working with less traditional partners outside the superpower club is already taking shape at the United Nations, says Canada’s ambassador. “We have set up a number of different kinds of relationships that work for specific issues,” said David Lametti, Canada’s ambassador to the UN. “And that’s precisely…
Wimbledon. It is a place synonymous with the ‘proper’ British sporting event – from players who can only wear white to the quintessentially strawberries and cream combination for spectators. But for fans, at least, no element represents this esteemed tournament better than ‘The Queue’. This is where tens of thousands descend upon the hallowed SW19…
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5, its most capable generally available model. On June 30, it announced that US export controls had lifted. The controls had covered Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Fable 5 returned to users globally on Wednesday, July 1. Mythos 5 access is restored to a set of US organizations….
An aerial view from a UN helicopter shows residential settlements and dirt roads, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in the outskirts of Mongbwalu, Djugu Territory of Ituri province which is the epicentre of the Ebola epidemic, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 9, 2026. — Reuters The…
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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 2, 2026 7:20 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size While much of southern Ontario sweats under an extended heat wave, the Toronto Zoo says its animals were kept cool despite a power failure that shuttered the facility on Canada Day. A statement…
LAHORE: A child was killed, and at least four people were injured after the roof of an under-construction house caved in Lahore’s Baghbanpura neighborhood on Thursday. As per a statement issued by Rescue 1122, the roof of the third floor of an under-construction house collapsed, killing a child and leaving four injured, while another person…
The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4 and moves developers onto Google OAuth 2.0. Now an open-source CLI command-line tool called ghealth wraps that API for terminals and AI agents. The tool is a single Go binary under the Apache 2.0 license….
