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Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) were reported worldwide in 2025, the fewest ever recorded, bringing the parasitic disease closer than ever to eradication, according to a new statement from the Carter Center.

Two of the 10 provisional human Guinea worm cases in 2025 were detected in South Sudan and four each in Chad and Ethiopia.

While he didn’t quite get his wish, he and Mrs. Carter would be proud to know there were only 10 human cases reported in 2025. »

While making meagre advances on the ground, Russia has paid a political price for its war.

Russia stopped the Western-backed Ukrainian counter-attack in 2023, but has since stuck to attritional warfare that wears down Ukraine – but also wears down Russia.

Putin’s Ukraine war surpasses, as a military blunder, the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5 and Stalin’s attack on Finland in 1939. »

Massie was highly ranked for his voting record by conservative organizations, but so were other candidates Trump pushed out of office—and out of the party.

In truth, it's been years since the Republican Party was a conservative organization; these days it's a cult of personality around the president.

Trump is hardly done with his efforts to purge Republican lawmakers who show anything other than complete loyalty to his leadership of the Republican Party. »

According to Windows Central journalist Jez Corden, Electronic Arts strongly pushed against the Game Pass Friends and Family plan.

One of the most requested ideas is still the return of the Game Pass family tier, along with exclusives.

In other news, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has publicly invited former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden to “chat sometime” after he shared a “grim prognosis” for the Xbox Game Pass model. »