Due to staffing constraints, the Police Media Centre will close at 7pm tonight, Wednesday 1 January. Prior to that time, we will be operating with reduced staff numbers, and will be prioritising ...

WHO recalled that on 31 December 2019, its Country Office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of “viral pneumonia” in the city.

UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that the cross-border operation from Türkiye into the northwest is running without impediments. On Tuesday, 21 trucks carrying 500 metric tonnes of food – ...

The bombardment of Zaporizhzhia on 7 November alone killed nine civilians and injured 42, while short-range drones killed 67 and injured 528. Russian forces have also resumed large-scale aerial ...

The Government’s plan to use vaping starter kits to help adults quit smoking is irresponsible and fails to consider future health complications. That is the message from the Asthma and Respiratory ...

Police are responding to a two-vehicle crash on Old West Coast Road, near Pitts Road, Darfield. Emergency services responded around 11am. Two people are reported to be in a critical condition. The ...

The 48-year-old man who escaped Corrections custody at Waikato Hospital on 23 December has now been arrested. He was located early this morning at an Oparau address and taken into custody without ...

The bill also establishes actions to strengthen national public policy on childhood and adolescence, including measures to ...

“This is absolutely the wrong path,” Mr. Türk said, urging the de facto authorities to reconsider what he described as a “ deeply discriminatory decree. ” Since coming to power, Afghanistan’s de facto ...

The violence comes after the top court in Mozambique confirmed on 23 December that the ruling Frelimo party won the disputed presidential election held in October, sparking protests. The southern ...

Meanwhile, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that heavy rainfall on Monday worsened the situation of displaced families along Gaza's shoreline, particularly in ...

A report published today by the UN Human Rights Office found that Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, pushed the healthcare system to the brink of ...