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UN urges help as 200 are taken off Banksy rescue boat

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said almost 400 refugees and migrants rescued by three ships in the Mediterranean must be allowed to disembark safely.

Socially isolated elderly more likely to use hospital and emergency room resources

Those over age 65 who self-reported as socially isolated were more likely to have a future hospital admission or emergency room visit, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Management.

Parental instruction instrumental for children to learn how to safely cross busy roads

Learning to cross a busy street is anything but easy for a child, especially in places where the traffic doesn't stop.

Lockdowns have economic and social costs for poor Bangladeshi families

Low socioeconomic families — and particularly women — experienced increased financial hardship, food insecurity, domestic violence and mental health challenges during COVID-19 lockdown measures in Bangladesh, a new research study shows.

Smartphones have made Britain the laziest country in Europe

Laziness due to smartphones has worsened more rapidly in Britain than in any other major Western European country, researchers have warned.

COVID underscores 'pandemic scale' of racial inequality in US: Analysis

COVID-19 would need to kill an additional one million white Americans for their average life expectancy to fall to levels seen by black Americans during non-pandemic years, an analysis published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found.

If you felt cooped up in lockdown, think of refugees confined indefinitely in camps

By Moulid Hujale*

Coronavirus keeps Rohingya indoors on genocide anniversary

Almost a million Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh marked three years since escaping from Myanmar on Tuesday, with coronavirus forcing them to hold a day-long "silent protest" inside their flimsy, leaky huts.

Bodies of 22 migrants, refugees retrieved off Libya's coast

The Libyan Red Crescent retrieved the bodies of 22 refugees and migrants off the coastal town of Zwara on Sunday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, likely to be from a shipwreck that took place last week.

Court told New Zealand shooter planned to burn down mosques

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques had intended to burn down the mosques afterward, a prosecutor said in court on Monday, while describing two of those praying as making heroic efforts to stop the mass shooting.