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Pakistani officer wounded in attack on polio workers dies, raising bombing death toll to 7

An officer wounded in a bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers has died in a hospital in northwestern Pakistan

Four premature babies die in hospital fire in Iraq

Health officials say a fire erupted at a hospital in southern Iraq, sending smoke through a maternity ward and killing four premature babies

Bomb targeting police assigned for anti-polio campaign kills 6 officers, wounds 10 in NW Pakistan

A roadside bomb has exploded near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others

Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health

With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health

41 workers in India are stuck in a tunnel for an 8th day. Officials consider alternate rescue plans

Officials trying to save 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days are contemplating alternative rescue plans after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi goes on a hunger strike while imprisoned in Iran

A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the country’s requirement that women wear headscarves

Parents in Pakistan could face prison time for not vaccinating their kids against polio

Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison

UN says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan as conflict grinds on

The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force