BAGHDAD — A fire erupted Monday evening at a hospital in southern Iraq, sending smoke through a maternity ward and killing four babies who had been born prematurely, health officials said. The fire started at a pile of debris belonging to a construction company working on renovations at Women and Children’s Hospital in Diwaniyiah, Iraqi … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — The nurse in the besieged hospital was caring for five fragile babies. Infants, born premature, their parents’ whereabouts after a month of war unknown. Now he faced the most difficult decision of his life. It was the height of Israel’s assault on northern Gaza last … Read more
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 20, 2023 at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday pushed back on market expectations for aggressive interest rate cuts ahead, calling it too … Read more
As Gaza’s biggest hospital complex, Al-Shifa, collapsed from a lack of power, oxygen, and water by Nov. 11, the lives of 39 premature babies hung in the balance after they could no longer receive critical care from incubators. Soon after, an image began circulating online and grabbed the world’s attention, showing the newborns wrapped in … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CAIRO — Heavy Israeli bombardments struck both north and south Gaza, killing more civilians and once again bringing hospitals into the crossfire on Monday as the conflict entered its 45th day with few signs of letup or a cease-fire. The dire conditions were compounded by storms that … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — The World Health Organization said Sunday that it had evacuated 31 premature infants from Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the newborns to a facility near the Egyptian border and signaling a broader effort to save the most vulnerable amid an Israeli siege of the sprawling … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza ‘s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations … Read more
The Malaysian government has questioned a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with the multibillion-dollar looting of a sovereign wealth fund ByThe Associated Press October 12, 2023, 4:45 AM FILE – In this Wednesday, July 8, 2015 photo, a 1MDB (1 Malaysia Development Berhad) logo is set against the … Read more
It is “premature” to bet on a cut to interest rates, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, France’s central bank governor, told CNBC, as market players consider whether the European Central Bank has reached peak rates. “We should remain at this level for a sufficiently long period of time,” he told CNBC’s Annette Weisbach exclusively on Monday. … Read more