A 6-year-old child in Morobe Province in northern Papua New Guinea was diagnosed with polio in April 2018. Subsequent testing found that the virus had infected at least two other children, who were showing no symptoms, causing the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an outbreak in the country.

Polio had been considered eradicated in Papua New Guinea, as the last case there was reported 18 years ago. Because of the community’s isolation and vaccination efforts, WHO...

A Cubana 737 aircraft carrying 104 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff in Havana, Cuba, on May 18, killing 111 people, with two survivors in critical condition as of press time. The plane was heading to the Cuban city of Holguín.

The cause of the accident was not known as of press time, but Aerolíneas Damojh, the Mexican company that owned the plane (which was being leased to Cubana at the time...

The Israeli military killed at least 60 Palestinians and injured more than 2,000 during a protest along the Gaza border fence on May 14, the same day the US opened its new embassy in Jerusalem. That brought up to 100 the total number of Palestinians who had been killed at that location in protests that started seven weeks earlier.

Palestinians were protesting for “the right to return,” a policy ...