(VOVWORLD) - A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0...
(VOVWORLD) - Chairman of the Federal Council of Russia Valentina Matviyenko said Monday that the attack in the Dagestan Republic, located in Russia's North Caucasus region, was a deliberate provocation...
(VOVWORLD) - The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 on Monday after gunmen went...
(VOVWORLD) - More than 1,000 people died during haj this year, according to a Reuters tally, as extreme heat hammered the nearly two million who took part in the annual...
(VOVWORLD) -Air pollution contributed to 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021, making it the second leading risk factor for death, according to a report prepared by the Health Effects Institute (HEI)...
(VOVWORLD) - The number of children killed in international armed conflicts tripled in 2023, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in a statement presented at the 56th session...
(VOVWORLD) -Trade tensions between the European Union and China are beginning to escalate, as anti-dumping investigations by both sides raise concerns of a large-scale trade war
(VOVWORLD) -Saudi Arabia warned of a temperature spike in Mecca as Muslim pilgrims wrapped up their annual hajj in searing conditions on Monday, with over a dozen heat-related deaths...
(VOVWORLD) - Iran on Sunday announced the names of 6 qualified candidates for the country's early presidential election scheduled later this month, following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in...
(VOVWORLD) - Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that his country’s approach towards the indirect talks on lifting sanctions and facilitating the return of all parties...
(VOVWORLD) -The number of victims killed by a devastating landslide in Kaokalam village of Papua New Guinea has risen to more than 670 people, a UN official said on Saturday
(VOVWORLD) - More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on...
(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on Thursday offered his condolences to the Iranian Embassy in Hanoi over the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir...
(VOVWORLD) - A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media...
(VOVWORLD) - Buddha’s birthday will be celebrated on the 15th day of the 4th lunar month, which this year falls on May 22. On this major celebration, Buddhist followers pray for peace...
(VOVWORLD) -President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, died in a helicopter crash in Iran’s northwest region
(VOVWORLD) -A ceremony marking the 134th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19) was held in Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom province by provincial administration, the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand,...
(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization voiced full confidence in Gaza Ministry of Health death toll figures on Tuesday, saying they were actually getting closer to confirming the scale of losses...
(VOVWORLD) - A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General...
(VOVWORLD) -Former US Army officer Barry Romo, who was a leading anti-war organizer and witness of the 1972 US bombings of Hanoi, passed away on May 1, in Chicago, at...