... aine. The West has introduced a wide range of sanctions against Russian banks, energy companies and individuals for Moscow's role in the Ukrainian conflict, which has claimed the lives of over 3,000 p ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-13
Since March, the Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa and one in the United States, but there's one death related to the deadly virus that has sparked so much outrage -- tha ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died on Wednesday, as the US government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever. ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
Health workers at a hospital in Madrid have blamed substandard protective equipment and a failure to follow protocol for the first case of Ebola to be contracted outside West Africa, the Guardian news ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
A Spanish nurse has become the first person to contract the Ebola virus outside of West Africa. The female hospital staffer had helped to treat two priests who contracted Ebola in West Africa and were ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... read from West Africa, where it began in March, Reuters said. The outbreak has killed at least 3,400 people out of the nearly 7,500 probable, suspected and confirmed cases, according to the news agenc ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
... se of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been shown to be irreversible. As a result, the global debate has shifted from the costs of action to the costs of inaction. And, though the costs of climate dam ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... ering the west wing of the old government headquarters, including Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah, who arrived at 7:40 this morning. Protesters are still blocking the Chief Executive Office in ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... overished West African countries, Guinea and Sierra Leone, in the worst such outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976. In Liberia, the head of the country's airport authority said the governm ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-03
... ntries in West Africa -- Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. But the most important thing is to throw America's scientific and medical knowhow at the problem, along with a large dollop of cash, accordin ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
... ria, northwest of the Iraqi city of Al Qa'im, west of Baghdad and southeast of Irbil in Iraq, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the US Central Command. So far, 20 airstrikes have been launched ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
... tbreak in West Africa, and marshaling a new push to confront climate change, he said. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-25
Global experts issued on Tuesday stark new warnings of the scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and called for urgent measures to combat the deadly virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Pre ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-24
... Ebola in West Africa and Islamic State in the Middle East, saying its implications stretch far into the future, according to the Los Angeles Times. "We can already see climate refugees, and in some p ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
... tbreak in West Africa is also a top issue. World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan told the Security Council last week that the crisis is "likely the greatest peacetime challenge" the ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-23
... rk in the West Kowloon Cultural District, and the expansion and renewal of three major hospitals -- Princess Margaret Hospital, United Christian Hospital, and the Kwong Wah Hospital, the report said. ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-22
... Highway, Western Harbor Crossing and West Kowloon Land Reclamation. The whole Project Rose Garden took about eight years to finish, costing a combined HK$16 billion. Looking back, the project has bee ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... xtend the West Rail Line to southern Tuen Mun by 2.4 kilometers, the report said. It is one of seven projects under the 2014 railway development plan, expected to cost a combined HK$110 billion. Prope ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
Searchers in Guinea have found several bodies while looking for missing doctors and journalists in the Ebola-stricken West African coutry. Officials said the find included the bodies of the three miss ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
... and line (western part), North Island line, Northern Link and Kwu Tung station, Tung Chung West extension, Tuen Mun South line extension, and an additional station at Hung Shui Kiu, between the West R ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-18
