JERUSALEM: He fought for weeks alongside elite Israeli troops in Gaza and appeared in a frontline photograph next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Roi Yifrah now stands accused of impersonating a soldier. Yifrah, 35, apparently never served in the Israeli army but managed to make his way to the Gaza Strip, where Israel is waging a fierce military campaign. Israeli police said Yifrah, a Tel Aviv resident, was arrested on December 17 on charges of impersonating a member of the security fo

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The World Health Organisation on Aug 14 declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries.An emergency committee met earlier on Aug 14 to advise WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a “ public health emergency of international concern, ” or PHEIC. PHEIC status is WHO’s highest level of alert an