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SEOUL — South Korea’s biggest hospitals cancelled procedures and turned away patients seeking emergency care on Wednesday after thousands of trainee doctors walked off the job in protest at a government plan to boost medical school admissions.
DAMASCUS — An Israeli air strike hit a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district in Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing two people, Syrian state media and a security source said.
LONDON — The United Arab Emirates, host of last year’s COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to take action in transitioning away from fossil fuels.
LONDON — Britain’s Prince William called for an end to the fighting in Gaza, where he said too many people had been killed in the conflict.
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had completed a second evacuation mission from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital but voiced concern for nearly 150 patients and medics who remain at the site amid continuing fighting.
CHICAGO — A study that analyzed the genetic code of a quarter of a million U.S. volunteers found more than 275 million entirely new variants that may help explain why some groups are more prone to disease than others, researchers reported on Monday.
GENEVA — Britain’s revived plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda would drastically strip back courts’ ability to scrutinize decisions and risks dealing a “serious blow to human rights”, the United Nations rights chief said on Monday.