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TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks with international health officials from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Ugandan health authorities during a news conference at the Ebola isolation unit at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on June 8.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 25, 2026
Global Ebola risk ¡®remains low,¡¯ WHO chief says after France case
France announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory: a doctor who had flown back from the?Congo.
The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization, despite concerns over the impact to public health and the legality of the move under American law.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 22, 2026
U.S. set to officially quit World Health Organization
Washington has yet to pay the U.N. health agency $260 million in ?fees that it owes for 2024 and 2025, despite a U.S. legal requirement to do so.
The World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva. The WHO is facing an income gap of nearly $600 million in 2025 and has "no choice" but to start making cutbacks, the organization's chief wrote in an internal email.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 30, 2025
WHO must cut budget by a fifth after U.S. pullout
The WHO is facing an income gap of nearly $600 million in 2025 and has ¡°no choice¡± but to start making cutbacks.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference in Kigali, Rwanda, in October.
WORLD
Dec 28, 2024
WHO chief says he narrowly escaped death in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC radio his ears were still ringing following Thursday¡¯s attack.
Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case mpox ¡ª an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that spark-off a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever; at the the treatment center near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 19.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 15, 2024
WHO calls mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency
The WHO last called mpox a public health emergency of international concern in May 2022
The World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 2, 2024
WHO countries prolong talks on pandemic accord
Despite increasing momentum in recent months, only 17 of the draft agreement¡¯s articles had been fully approved by countries by the deadline.
An ayurvedic doctor performs a traditional therapy at SGVP Holistic hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 17, 2023
WHO holds first traditional medicine summit
The global health body has come under fire from online critics who accused it of providing scientific validation to pseudoscience.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 7, 2023
¡®We need to know¡¯: WHO says China has more data on COVID-19 origin
More than three years after COVID-19 first surfaced, heated debate still rages around the origins of the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2022
¡®We¡¯re still in the tunnel¡¯: WHO chief says pandemic not over
In its latest epidemiological update, the WHO said over 9,800 fatalities were reported last week, down 17% from a week earlier, while 3.2 million new cases were reported.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2022
End of COVID-19 pandemic is ¡®in sight,¡¯ WHO chief says
It is the most upbeat assessment from the U.N. agency since it declared an international emergency in January 2020 and started describing COVID-19 as a pandemic three months later.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2022
WHO slams ¡®unimaginable cruelty¡¯ inflicted on Tigray
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested racism may be why the situation ranked behind Ukraine in terms of international attention, despite it being ¡®the worst humanitarian crisis.¡¯
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 13, 2022
WHO warns COVID-19 pandemic ¡®nowhere near over¡¯
¡®The virus is running freely and countries are not effectively managing the disease burden based on their capacity,¡¯ the organization¡¯s leader said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 11, 2022
WHO chief says China¡¯s ¡®COVID-zero¡¯ policy is not ¡®sustainable¡¯
The comments come after China¡¯s leaders have repeated their resolve to battle the virus with tough measures and threatened action against critics at home.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 29, 2021
WHO employees involved in Congo sex abuse during Ebola crisis, report says
Many of the male perpetrators refused to use a condom and 29 of the more than 50 women abused became pregnant and some were forced to later abort by their abusers.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2021
WHO urged to reform after panel finds failures worsened pandemic
The international system remains unfit to avoid another disease spiraling into one that matches COVID-19, an independent review has found.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2021
WHO chief faults COVID-19 report for dismissing lab leak theory
A group of more than a dozen nations, including Japan and the U.S., issued a joint statement saying the mission¡¯s report lacked sufficient access.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 17, 2020
WHO warns against COVID-19 complacency after Moderna vaccine news
¡®Right now we are extremely concerned by the surge in cases we are seeing in some countries,¡¯ WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2020
Proportion of youth with COVID-19 triples in five months, WHO says
Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising threefold in about five months, the World Health Organization said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 9, 2020
WHO says pandemic ¡®far from over¡¯ as daily cases hit record high
More than 136,000 new cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, the most in a single day so far.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 16, 2020
Caught in Trump-China feud, WHO leader under siege
The internal debate over the WHO¡¯s messaging around China provides a window into the challenges facing the 72-year-old U.N. organization and its leader.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Putin visits disputed Etorofu island off Hokkaido, sparking protest from Tokyo
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Yasny fish processing factory on Etorofu island, one of four islands in the contested chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on Thursday.
Â鶹´«Ã½ inflation paradox is creating winners and losers
Chieko Sugai at her home in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

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