Recently confirmed as health secretary, Kennedy has previously made numerous false and misleading claims about the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and had downplayed the growing outbreak, saying annual outbreaks were “not unusual.”
One person died last week in the blaze in the northern region of Iwate, which follows record low rainfall in the area and last year’s hottest summer on record across Japan.
They were among nine individuals arrested in raids across Singapore on Wednesday, police and the customs agency said in a joint statement.
The arrest on Monday of Blessed Mhlanga, a high-profile journalist with the online Heart and Soul Television channel (HStv), has sparked new criticism of the government’s intolerance of media freedom and opposition.
Around 1,600 workers based in the United States will be laid off in a “reduction-in-force” effort, according to a notice on the US Agency for International Development’s website.
Jary, who has been in custody since October 2023, was convicted over an “unlawful contract between the FTF and a technical director”, a spokesperson for the sports ministry said then.
The surge in cases was attributed to a “shortage of water due to power outages,” the health ministry in White Nile state said in a statement.
Boughalleb, 61, had been detained since March last year and was being prosecuted under a presidential decree aimed at combating “false news” following a complaint from a civil servant.
The African Union published its official statement on Wednesday, expressing its “deep concern over the continued escalation of the conflict, between the two warring parties, particularly the non-stop perpetration of war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
Eight patients treated for Ebola in Uganda have recovered, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, declaring the country’s latest outbreak of the deadly disease “contained”.
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