Thu 18 August 2022: People must reduce their own risks of infection, because vaccines against monkeypox are not 100% effective, WHO technical lead Rosamund Lewis said on Wednesday. “We are not expecting a 100% efficacy for these vaccines for the prevention of monkeypox. We don’t have the exact information … it reminds us that vaccine […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, has indicated that racism is to blame for the lack of concern given by the world community to the situation of people in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray area. Calling it the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, with 6 million people unable […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Turkiye’s Communications Directorate held a panel in Paris to emphasise the critical need for a UN Security Council reform, Anadolu News Agency reports. Many officials from Turkiye, including Deputy Director of Communications, Cagatay Ozdemir, attended the panel, along with diplomats from the Turkish Embassy in Paris. The panel was moderated by Washington Director […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: NASA’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long journey to its launchpad on Tuesday night in preparation for the behemoth’s first test flight later this month. The 98-meter-tall rocket is scheduled to go into orbit without a human crew on August 29. It […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Refugees from the Rohingya minority urged Michelle Bachelet, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, to actively involve the organization in helping Myanmar create the conditions necessary for the sustained repatriation of the persecuted minority, Anadolu Agency reported. Bachelet’s visit marked the first time a United Nations High Commissioner for Human […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, tweeted that he was buying English football club Manchester United Plc, without offering any details. Musk has a history of being unconventional and posting irreverent tweets. It was not immediately clear whether he planned to pursue a deal to acquire Manchester United, one of the most […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: The legislation, though less than Biden originally wanted, brings the largest investment to fight climate change in United States history. US President Joe Biden has signed a $740bn climate change, healthcare and tax bill into law, handing the Democratic Party a much-needed win ahead of the November midterm elections. In a signing […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: Germany has sent troops to Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the European Union’s peacekeeping mission for the first time in 10 years as concerns mount about instability from the Ukraine war spilling over to the Western Balkans. On Tuesday, the first German troops to return to the country were greeted in […]
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Hadi Matar, 24, in court in New York on Saturday. Tue 16 August 2022: Salman Rushdie, a British novelist who was recently stabbed numerous times while attending an event in New York state, is awake. According to a law enforcement officer with firsthand knowledge of the inquiry, who was quoted by CNN on Tuesday (August […]
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Tue 16 August 2022: After further lifting the family planning policy to allow each couple to have up to three children, China is working to further create a fertility-friendly environment and the support policies. According to China’s National Health Authority, the country would discourage abortions in order to increase its birth rate. China now has […]
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