SEOUL, South Korea — Senior doctors at dozens of hospitals in South Korea planned to submit their resignations Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions, their leader said. Read More: South Korea Deploys Military Surgeons … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities will suspend the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations, one of the doctors said Monday. The impending suspensions are the punishments against physicians after more than 90% of the country’s 13,000 … Read more
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — An explosion in a Beirut suburb Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas leader, the group said in statement, and the attack raised the specter of the conflict in Gaza expanding into the kind of wider war that Israel, Iran and its allied groups have … Read more
Britain’s government has reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of strikes ByThe Associated Press November 27, 2023, 9:26 AM LONDON — Britain’s government reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of disruptive strikes, officials said Monday. The Department of Health … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, said Sunday that he was “hopeful” that a deal will be completed “in the coming days” to free at least some of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. “We’re talking about a pause in the fighting for a few … Read more
Senior royal looks frail but in good spirits The Duke of Kent attended a birthday reception held in his honor at the Embassy of Poland in London. In the pictures shared from his birthday reception at the Polish embassy, the royal looked frail but in good spirits. A statement issued by the British Poles, a leading … Read more
Monica Perez, 65, chats with her robot friend, ElliQ. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET If you walked into Marie Defrancesco’s New York home, you would find an 82-year-old woman living completely alone. With no other people or pets around, you might believe that Marie has no one to interact with. But out of the corner of your eye, you … Read more
In this photo released on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Ziad al-Nakhleh, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, center, and Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials, their first reported meeting … Read more
BEIRUT — A senior Hamas official on Monday said only a small number of top commanders inside Gaza knew about the wide-ranging incursion launched into Israel, but that allies like Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah “will join the battle if Gaza is subjected to a war of annihilation.” Ali Barakeh, a member of Hamas’ exiled … Read more