CNN — According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, nearly half a billion children in South Asia are exposed to extremely high temperatures as life-threatening heatwaves fueled by the climate crisis grow stronger and more frequent. In a press release Monday, UNICEF said its analysis of 2020 data showed an estimated 460 million children in … Read more
Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $18.8 million to a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to his baby powder, a jury ruled Tuesday, a setback for the company that has thousands of similar cases of its talc-based products US bankruptcy court. The jury ruled in favor of Emory Hernandez Valadez, … Read more
Renk, South Sudan CNN — Kueaa Darhok, wearing baggy pants over borrowed rubber boots, tries to make his way through the sucking mud and deep puddles on his way to the communal kitchen at the center of the transit camp he now calls home. There, Sudanese refugees and returning South Sudanese wait under his reassuring … Read more
CNN — At least 17 people, including five children, were killed on Saturday, according to the country’s Health Ministry, after an airstrike hit a residential area in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, hours before the United States and Saudi Arabia announced a 72-hour ceasefire. At least 25 houses were destroyed in the air raid on the … Read more