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A landmark new study published in the Lancet estimates that antimicrobial resistant pathogens, or AMR, will kill more than 39 million people by 2050. The study also predicts that 169 million deaths will be associated with drug-resistant infections by that year. “These findings highlight that AMR has been a significant global health threat for decades and that this threat is growing,” said Mohsen Naghavi, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the study’s author. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read More: 25% of Antibiotic Prescriptions Are Unnecessary.

BAMAKO, Mali — Extremists attacked a military training camp in Mali’s capital on Tuesday, the army said, as explosions were heard in the area. Within hours, the government said it was temporarily closing the airport in Bamako. A sweep operation was underway after gunmen attempted to infiltrate the Faladie gendarme school, the military said in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese warplanes tailed a U. S. military aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, China’s military said. The U. S. aircraft was a P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance plane, capable of conducting long-range anti-submarine warfare, according to a statement by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Chinese military forces “organized warplanes to tail and monitor the U.

AVIGNON, France — A 71-year-old French man acknowledged in court Tuesday that he drugged his then-wife and invited dozens of men to rape her over nearly a decade, as well as raping her himself. He pleaded with her, and their three children, for forgiveness. “Today I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court.

Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Asia this year, killed at least 226 people in Myanmar and affected more than half a million more, adding another strain to the war-torn nation’s already limited resources. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Torrential rains caused water levels in rivers and creeks to rise, resulting in floods that damaged infrastructure and crops in 84 townships including in the capital Naypyidaw, the Ministry of Information said.

LIMA — Wildfires in Peru have left at least 15 dead since July and more than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of cultivated land and natural areas scorched, authorities said Monday. Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén told reporters that the fires were started by human activity and that 22 of the 24 regions that make up the country have active outbreaks.