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COVID-19 cases mostly drop, except for the Americas: WHO

LONDON — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organization said. In its latest weekly assessment of the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3% and 11% respectively. COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific. Deaths increased by 30% in the Middle East, but were stable or decreased everywhere else. WHO said it is tracking all omicron sub variants as “variants of concern.”It noted that countries which had a significant wave of disease caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2 appeared to be less affected by other subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which were responsible...

May 27, 2022

COVID-19 cases mostly drop, except for the Americas: WHO

China and Russia veto new UN sanctions on North Korea

NEW YORK — China and Russia vetoed a UN resolution sponsored by the United States on Thursday that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea for its spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-2 and marked a first serious division among the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N.’s most powerful body on a North Korea sanctions resolution. A united Security Council imposed sanctions after North Korea’s first nuclear test explosion in 2006 and tightened them over the years in a total of 10 resolutions seeking -- so far unsuccessfully -- to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and cut off funding. — Agencies

May 27, 2022

China and Russia veto new UN sanctions on North Korea

Ukrainian refugees arrive at Rzeszow train station in Poland after fleeing Ukraine.

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland ‘in a state of distress and anxiety’

GENEVA — With more than 3.5 million people having fled to Poland since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, continues to scale up its operations to provide aid to arrivals, the agency’s spokesperson said on Friday.“Poland remains the main country of arrival for refugees from Ukraine,” UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva.And while the pace has slowed in comparison to early March – when over 100,000 people were arriving per day – May has continued to witness around 20,000 daily arrivals.Although more people are going back and forth across the Ukraine border – for reasons including visiting family or returning to jobs – Ms. Sarrado said that given the ongoing hostilities, “Poland...

May 27, 2022

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland ‘in a state of distress and anxiety’

Texas Ranger Victor Escalon gave a news conference on Thursday.

Texas shooting: Police change key details as criticism mounts

WASHINGTON — Police in Texas have revised key details about Tuesday's deadly school shooting as criticism mounts from parents over the initial response.The gunman roamed outside the Uvalde school for 12 minutes before entering unchallenged, police said on Thursday.That contradicted earlier statements which said the attacker had been confronted and shot at by an officer.He killed 19 children and two teachers before he was shot dead 90 minutes after he arrived, police said.That delay, combined with video footage showing frustrated parents being tackled and handcuffed by police while the gunman was still inside the school, has led to growing public anger and scrutiny of the early response.It has also called into question claims by state Governor Greg Abbott, who earlier this week hailed...

May 27, 2022

Texas shooting: Police change key details as criticism mounts

Shireen Abu Aqla's killing drew outrage and condemnation around the world.

Palestinian report says Israel deliberately killed Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Aqla

RAMALLAH — A Palestinian investigation has concluded that Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla was intentionally shot dead by an Israeli soldier.Announcing the findings, the Palestinian attorney general said "the only shooting was by the occupation forces, with the aim of killing".The Israeli defense minister rejected the report, calling it "a blatant lie".Israel's army is carrying out its own investigation, and has said Palestinian militants might have shot Abu Aqla.There was widespread outrage when the 51-year-old Palestinian-American journalist was shot dead while reporting on an Israeli military operation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on 11 May.Al Jazeera says it is referring the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as Israel's...

May 27, 2022

Palestinian report says Israel deliberately killed Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Aqla

Aryan Khan was arrested in a drugs case and spent nearly three weeks in jail in 2021

Drug charges dropped against Shah Rukh Khan's son

MUMBAI — India's anti-drug agency has dropped charges against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son in a drugs case.Aryan Khan, 24, was arrested in October 2021 for allegedly doing recreational drugs at a party.The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had charged him under laws "related to possession, consumption and sale of illegal substances."On Friday, the NCB cleared him in the case, saying "no drugs had been found on Aryan Khan".A charge sheet filed in court by the agency on Friday named 14 accused in the case but left out six others, including Aryan Khan, "due to lack of evidence."Officials from NCB had on 2 October 2021 raided a cruise ship, saying they had been tipped off that there were drugs on board.Aryan Khan had been searched and interrogated...

May 27, 2022

Drug charges dropped against Shah Rukh Khan's son

The family seen in detention in 2018.

Australia frees asylum seekers after public outcry

CANBERRA — A family whose detention has focused anger over Australia's asylum-seeker policies have won a four-year battle to return to their Queensland town.Australia's new government granted visas to the Murugappan family, allowing them to temporarily live and work in Biloela.The Tamil family has been in immigration detention since 2018 after their claim for asylum was rejected.The case sparked an outcry and locals in Biloela campaigned for their return.Legal challenges to the decision to deny them protection remain before Australia's courts.Under controversial policies, Australia can hold asylum seekers like the Murugappans in indefinite detention while it assesses their refugee claims or takes steps to deport them.But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese — who won an election...

May 27, 2022

Australia frees asylum seekers after public outcry

Children walk among buildings destroyed during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine.

1,500 dead in Ukraine city as fighting intensifies

KYIV — Fighting around the city of Sievierodonetsk has intensified, with at least 1,500 casualties and 60% of residential buildings destroyed. About 12,000 to 13,000 people remain in the city, according to the local mayor, with Sievierodonetsk the only part of the Luhansk region in Donbas still under Ukrainian government control.Elsewhere, two Russian soldiers accused of war crimes have appeared at a second trial hearing in the northeastern town of Kotelva, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with the West on Thursday to send multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine as soon as possible.Pro-Russian separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said on Friday that they have established full control over the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine....

May 27, 2022

1,500 dead in Ukraine city as fighting intensifies

Peacekeepers serving with MINUSCA, the UN mission in the Central African Republic, patrol in the capital Bangui.

Five ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development

UNITED NATIONS — Every day, United Nations peacekeepers work to protect millions of vulnerable people in increasingly dangerous places in the world’s most fragile political contexts.From protecting civilians in war-torn areas and building social cohesion, to ensuring the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, rebuilding infrastructure, and providing livelihood skills to impoverished communities - peacekeepers work with local and international partners to help create conditions for political solutions and sustainable development.Ahead of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (29 May) whose theme this year is People Peace Progress: The Power of Partnerships, here are five ways that peacekeeping partnerships drive change.Climate change exacerbates the risk of conflict and makes...

May 27, 2022

Five ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development

Children play on a destroyed building in east Ghouta in Syria.

Considering to close remaining border crossing with Syria ‘unconscionable’

NEW YORK — The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry said on Thursday that not extending current cross-border aid to Syria along the remaining route, would be a “failure of the highest order”. The warning to the Security Council comes as humanitarian needs throughout Syria are at their highest, since the start of the devastating 11-year war.Calling on the Security Council to ensure life-saving humanitarian aid to Syria, the UN Commission said it would be “unconscionable to consider closing last border crossing when needs are at their highest”.With the current “exceptional authorization” for humanitarian aid delivery through the last remaining border crossing into northwest Syria expiring on 10 July, Security Council members last week “worryingly expressed opposing views on the...

May 27, 2022

Considering to close remaining border crossing with Syria ‘unconscionable’

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