World News for Students of English

01-12-2025 15:00

Good news includes a jump in Mexico’s jaguar population to over 5,300, showing that protected areas are working. Australian scientists also successfully bred a rare mountain frog in a lab for the first time.

In medicine, doctors used a 5G robot to perform surgery on a patient in Tibet from 4,000 km away, proving expert care can reach distant places. Also, the EU approved a new, highly effective twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV, making prevention much easier globally.

Morocco became the 60th country to sign the High Seas Treaty, an international law which will soon protect marine life in the open ocean. Brazil also set a record by getting over one-third of its power from wind and sun, meeting its clean energy goals.

Difficult words: jump (a sudden and large increase in a number, amount, or level), breed (to keep animals or plants for the purpose of producing babies), prove (to establish that something is true).

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