Thu 20 August 2020: “What I worry about for the moment is that the market implies a really high percentage rate of success and each of these companies is going to sell billions of dollars worth of products,” the expert said. “That just seems unlikely to me.” With the race on to find a coronavirus […]
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Wed 19 August 2020: (Reuters) Flames are ravaging Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, approaching the region’s main highway and threatening endangered species amid a near-record number of fires. Brazil’s national space research agency Inpe has registered 3,121 fires in the first 15 days of August, nearly five times higher than the same period a […]
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Fri 14 August 2020: Report by WHO, UNICEF shows 818 million children can’t wash their hands properly at schools GENEVA: As education institutions around the world seek to reopen, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief said Thursday that more than 40% of the world’s schools lack hand washing facilities, a major obstacle to reopening. “More […]
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Thu 13 August 2020: Young people who have lost jobs or schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic risk carrying “scarring effects” throughout their working lives unless governments provide immediate support, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. An ILO poll of 12,000 youths in 112 countries showed in May that more than one in six […]
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Mon 10 August 2020: In a statement issued on Saturday, the committee called on UNESCO to “immediately intervene and save the buildings in Sanaa Old City which are on the World Heritage List, from collapse and destruction and to address the severe damage caused to them by rain and floods.” The distinctive brown and white […]
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Thu 06 August 2020: FAO food price index climbs 1.2% month-on-month, led by higher vegetable oil and dairy product prices NKARA – Global food prices this July rose for a second month in a row, driven by higher vegetable oil and dairy prices, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday. Averaging 94.2 points […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: ILO chief says despite all 187 states backing convention, 152 million children worldwide are locked in child labor GENEVA (AA) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) said Tuesday that for the first time in its history, all 187 of its member states have ratified an international convention. But implementation of the […]
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Tue 04 August 2020: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world is facing a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic and “getting students back into schools and learning institutions as safely as possible must be a top priority” once local transmission of Covid-19 is under control. Guterres said […]
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Mon 03 August 2020: Explosive yield of nuclear weapons ‘increased exponentially’ since Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima GENEVA (AA) – The explosive yield — the amount of energy released when a nuclear weapon detonates — has grown exponentially since 1945 when bombs flattened the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Densely-populated megacities of the 21st […]
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Thu 23 July 2020: Researchers are making “good progress” in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday. WHO is working to ensure fair vaccine distribution, but in the meantime it is key to […]
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