The latest sandstorm in Iraq sends at least 4,000 people to hospital with breathing problems and leads to the closure of airports, schools and public offices.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says there has been some progress in talks between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow's military offensive against its neighboring country enters its third week.

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The waiting list for public hospitals in England hit six million for the first time at the end of November 2021.

The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is 40% to 45% lower than for patients with the Delta variant.

More than two dozen people injured in Friday’s bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province have been transferred to Iran for treatment.

A fire broke out on the roof of a New York hospital, leading to two minor injuries and the evacuation of the emergency room.

The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the US pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.

US bed shortage prompts Houston hospital officials to send sick baby for COVID treatment to another town.

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rises to eight as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns.