Global childhood vaccination coverage holds steady, yet over 14 million infants remain unvaccinated – WHO, UNICEF - World Health Organization (WHO)

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Published: October 15, 2026 at 3:32p.m. EDTAfter an international health agency warned of the very high risk of measles spreading, Canadian experts say those who are not vaccinated are most vulnerable to catching the highly contagious disease. The risk of measles spreading “remains very high” due to the expectation that more people will be travelling both domestically and internationally in coming months for religious events, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a World Health Organization (WHO) body for the Americas, in a press release on Oct. 9. “Measles cases have also risen globally in 2026, increasing the likelihood of imported cases through international travel and onward transmission in communities with low immunity,” according to the news release. How to set CTV News as your preferred source on GoogleDr.

A year would pass before she told her mother about the vaccines. And several more years would go by before Marnik came to have sympathy for her mother’s choices. That happened, as it so often does, when Marnik became a mother herself, in 2019. A harrowing childbirth necessitated several blood transfusions. Overwhelmed and foggy-headed, Marnik balked when a nurse asked to give the baby a hepatitis B shot, saying she’d do it later. A friend gently reminded her why it’s important to vaccinate at birth, and the baby did get the shot before leaving the hospital. But Marnik had hesitated. And she was starting to understand her mother’s burdens. “That moment, plus the whole entry into motherhood, really changed my perspective,” Marnik said. “You have this immense pressure that if you don’t do it right, things could happen. That really gave me more compassion.”Marnik’s mother, Teresa Ryan, can still recall the pamphlet she came across decades ago, one of many such tales that she read. It described a healthy child who, after a series of vaccinations, started crying uncontrollably and running a high fever, and then went limp.

Kim Jong-un has travelled to China over a newly opened bridge marking the North Korean leader’s first known trip abroad in more than a year, South Korean officials have said. A government source told the Yonhap news agency on Saturday that Kim had arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong, in Liaoning province, after taking a train from Pyongyang to Sinuiju and crossing the New Yalu River Bridge. Yonhap also reported that the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, had travelled to the city. Kim’s trip was not announced in advance and had not been confirmed by Pyongyang or Beijing by Saturday evening. China will mark the anniversary on Sunday of its entry into the 1950-53 Korean war on the North’s side. Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Saturday that traffic controls had been imposed around the bridge and near a museum devoted to China’s role in the war, and that hotel bookings nearby had been restricted. Diplomatic sources told the agency the measures were linked to a visit by a senior North Korean official. The 3km bridge opened in mid-October, 12 years after China finished building it, after being held up by delays on the North Korean side.

Some public buildings and businesses across France have been boarded up ahead of Saturday's protestsFrance is on high alert ahead of a new day of nationwide protests on Saturday, a week after the country saw some of its worst unrest in decades. Sweeping restrictions have been imposed on demonstrations across France but hundreds of thousands of protesters are still expected to gather in Paris and elsewhere for a second round of protests organised by students, trade unions and wider anti-government groups. The interior ministry has said it will deploy 70,000 police officers, ramping up the security presence in French cities, after the government was accused by opposition parties of failing to foresee the scale of the unrest on 17 October. "We will not let anything go unchallenged," said Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. "We will be uncompromising with the vandals, with the looters, and all those who commit acts of violence," he added, explaining that separate from the planned protests, numerous calls for violence had been seen on social media from the "far left and radical extreme left".

WorldGunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said. Gunfire erupted roughly 15 minutes after funeral started, witness saysThe Associated Press · Posted: Oct 23, 2026 10:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A man looks through a gap in a stone wall, toward a church in Karak, Jordan, where a shooting occurred at a funeral held there hours earlier on Friday. (The Associated Press)Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said. The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180 kilometres south of the capital, Amman. Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen, apparently armed with pistols, approaching the church and firing shots. A third man, apparently carrying a semi-automatic rifle, then approached and fired before all three ran toward the church.