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Bulgaria has recorded 17 cases of flu out of 157 tested samples over the past week, representing about 11%, according to Chief Health Inspector Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev. Speaking on BNT, he predicted that after the holiday season, the percentage of positive flu samples is likely to rise by 20% to 30%, as the flu virus tends to dominate and trigger a seasonal epidemic during this time.

A staggering 281 aid workers have been killed around the world so far this year, making 2024 the deadliest year for humanitarians, the U.N. aid chief said on Nov. 22.

Arrest warrants issued yesterday against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Galland and the head of the armed forces department of Hamas Mohammed Daif represent a historic development for the International Criminal Court, which has been struggling for 22 years to have its jurisdiction recognized and to gain enforcement powers.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Russia on Wednesday for talks at the BRICS summit in Kazan.

The two-day summit takes place as the international community is expressing growing concerns over the continued regional conflicts in the Middle East and Eurasia.

The 26 poorest countries in the world, which collectively house 40% of the globe's most impoverished population, have accumulated significant debt since 2006. According to a new report from the World Bank, these nations are increasingly susceptible to natural disasters and economic shocks, as reported by Reuters and BTA.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he had had a friendly and open discussion with Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in New York about current global developments and the need to preserve multilateralism in the world.

About 1,685 “seriously ill” prisoners have been released from a notorious prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The movement to tackle overcrowding in prisons began on Sunday at the Macala prison in the capital Kinshasa.

A few days ago, 52-year-old Lucas Ncipe, assistant general manager of the Canadian diamond mining company Lucara, received a phone call from one of his engineers working at the Karowe mine in Botswana. “We found something incredible,” was the phrase he heard. He almost dropped the phone when he realized what it was about: the second-largest diamond in the world, weighing 2,492 carats.

An escape attempt at Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulted in at least 129 deaths and 59 injuries, the government reported on Tuesday. The fatalities include 24 individuals who were shot, while the remaining deaths occurred due to jostling and suffocation.

Experts warn that it is only a matter of time before more cases of the new contagious variant of monkeypox (mpox Clade Ib) are identified in Europe. This follows the first imported case reported in Sweden a week ago.