The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause of death worldwide.
Addressing the Security Council on Tuesday, Ilze Brands Kehris, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, expressed concern about restrictions to freedom of religion in Ukraine, including territory under Russian control.
Ukraine should get any weapons it needs for use in its conflict with Russia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Ukraine’s violation of international law was responsible for the deadly missile explosion in Dnepr, Russia’s envoy to the UN has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Top seed Rafael Nadal is out of the Australian Open after a second-round loss to America’s Mackenzie McDonald in Melbourne Read Full Article at RT.com
Fragmentation could cost the world economy up to 7% of GDP, the International Monetary Fund says Read Full Article at RT.com
Trade turnover between Russia and Belarus reached an all-time high of $50 billion in 2022, according to the Belarusian embassy Read Full Article at RT.com
KARACHI, Jan 18 (IPS) - Experts question Pakistan's 10bn USD funding for flood rehabilitation, asking if it wouldn't have been better to access climate change grants.Terming the recent international donors’ conference held in Geneva a “success” after Pakistan was able to secure 10 billion US dollars, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has promised “every penny” of the pledges will be used towards rehabilitation of flood-hit people.
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GWANGIU, South Korea, Jan 17 (IPS) - Given the tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a co-operation between South Korea, Japan and NATO sends a message of deterrence and shared liberal values.
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SYDNEY, Jan 17 (IPS) - Inflation worries topped Ipsos’s What Worries the World survey in 2022 overtaking COVID concerns. The return of inflation caught major central banks, e.g., the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank of England, European Central Bank “off guard”. The persistence of inflation also surprised the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The return of inflation and its persistence exposed the poverty of the economics profession, unable to agree on its causes and required policy responses. It also exposed the profession’s anti-working class biases.
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