UNITED NATIONS (Associated Press -
AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the world to “reject attempts to build blocks to keep others out” as an image of his country’s storied Great Wall hung behind him. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte used photos and videos to illustrate what he was talking about. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared his [...]
By Thomas Milz (DW) – President Jair Bolsonaro has claimed that Brazil is the victim of a campaign of lies about the Amazon. But, Thomas Milz writes, pictures of the fires there speak for themselves — as do Brazil’s coronavirus statistics.
It is a tradition for Brazil to be the first country to address the UN [...]
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS - With more than 20,000 civilians killed last year in conflicts in 10 countries — including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for a “global cease-fire”: a proposal which failed to generate a positive [...]
By Erol Avdovic (WebpublicaPress) – UNITED NATIONS – With a strict measures of percaution United Nations launched its first virtual annual global debate at the 75th jubelee session of General Assambly (UNGA). It was the event that supposed to look quite different, but due to the COVID-19 global pandemic turned into a gathering with keynote [...]
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS - Back in 1998, Senator Jesse Helms, a rightwing Republican from the US state of North Carolina, carried out a virulent one-man hate-campaign against the UN– and its very presence in New York.
A fulltime chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee– and a part-time UN basher—the late Helms [...]
WEBPUBLICA (New York) – Clinical trials of one of the most advanced experimental COVID-19 vaccines, which is being developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University, were “paused” on Sept. 8 after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness, Turkish Hurriyet daily News reported quoting various media sources.
With billions of people around the world still suffering from the fallout of [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) Istanbul - Turkey has announced strict new measures to fight the novel coronavirus, as the daily infection numbers in the country had crossed the 1,000-mark, Hurriyet daily News reported. The same media source also on Tuesday (08 September 2020) reported the Coronavirus (Covid-19) death toll reaches 6,730 as daily cases increase by 1,703.
Turkey with the population of around [...]
By Arti Ekawati (DW) – As Indonesia experiences a record spike in COVID-19 cases, people are turning to traditional medicine to boost immunity. But public health officials warn that unproven remedies can create a false sense of security.
When Dian heard that the coronavirus had arrived in Indonesia at the end of March, she stocked her kitchen [...]
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS – When two recent staff surveys, one in Geneva and the other in New York, revealed widespread racism at the United Nations, it triggered the obvious question: why shouldn’t the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) probe these charges?
http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/08/staff-surveys-reveal-widespread-racism-united-nations/
Currently, the UN has a veritable army of over 80 independent experts, [...]
By Esme Nicholson (NPR) - Noise in Germany keeps a strict schedule. Every night after 10 p.m. and on Sundays, Germans are required by a medley of federal, state and local laws to keep schtum. That means no spin cycles, no vacuuming, no power tools and no mowing the lawn.
As the world went into lockdown this spring, a [...]
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