Added on March 9, 2022
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Geneva: An expert group convened by the World Health Organisation said Tuesday it strongly supports urgent and broad access to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity. In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunisation with authorised COVID-19 vaccines […]
Added on March 8, 2022
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Lviv: Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine starting Monday, although the evacuation routes were mostly leading to Russia and its ally Belarus, drawing withering criticism from Ukraine and others. It was not immediately clear if any evacuations were taking place. Russian forces continued to […]
Added on March 2, 2022
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United Nations: Ambassadors from dozens of countries on Monday backed a proposal demanding that Russia halt its attack on Ukraine, as the UN General Assembly held a rare emergency session during a day of frenzied and sometimes fractious diplomacy surrounding the five-day-old war. If Ukraine does not survive … international peace will not survive,” Ukrainian […]
Added on March 1, 2022
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Kyiv: Russian and Ukrainian officials met for talks Monday amid high hopes but low expectations for any diplomatic breakthrough, after Moscow ran into unexpectedly stiff resistance when it unleashed the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. Outgunned Ukrainian forces managed slow the Russian advance and Western sanctions began to squeeze the Russian […]
Added on February 22, 2022
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Moscow: If there are no more major Covid outbreaks after Omicron, the pandemic may see an end in 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Russia has said. However, it does not mean that the virus will vanish completely, Melita Vujnovic was quoted as saying in an interview with TASS news agency. “It’s hard […]
Added on February 22, 2022
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Moscow: The US and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch effort to stave off a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as sustained shelling continued on Monday in a conflict in eastern Ukraine that Western powers fear could provide the spark for a broader war. If Russia invades, as the US warns […]
Added on February 22, 2022
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The Hague: Myanmar’s shadow civilian administration called on the United Nations’ top court Monday not to allow the country’s military rulers to represent the Southeast Asian nation at hearings into a case accusing the country of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority. Four days of hearings into the Myanmar military’s deadly 2017 crackdown on the […]
Added on February 20, 2022
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Vilnius (Lithuania): US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin assured the three Baltic nations Saturday that they would not be on their own if faced with security threats from Russia, but he stopped short of promising a permanent deployment of American troops in the former Soviet republics. Austin was in Lithuania as a massive Russian troop […]
Added on February 17, 2022
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London: Inflation in the United Kingdom has risen at the fastest rate in almost 30 years as increased costs for energy, housing and transportation squeezed household budgets. The consumer price index ticked up to 5.5per cent in the 12 months through January and was up from 5.4per cent the previous month, the Office for National […]
Added on February 16, 2022
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Copenhagen: The head of the World Health Organisation’s Europe office said Tuesday that health officials are turning their attention to growing rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where six countries including Russia and Ukraine have seen a doubling in case counts over the last two weeks. Dr. Hans Kluge said the 53-country region, which […]
