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June 18, 2021
Delta variant cases in UK jump by nearly 80% in a week
ROME — The impact of conflicts old and new, climate shocks, and COVID-19, in addition to a lack of funding, have left millions more on the verge of famine than six months ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
In an appeal for $5 billion “to avoid famine” and support the “biggest operation in its history,” WFP spokesperson Phiri Tomson said that millions of refugees faced “uncertainty and hunger” as the impact of the pandemic on emergency aid budgets became clearer.
“The number of people teetering on the brink of famine has risen from 34 million projected at the beginning of the year, to 41 million projected as of June”, he said. “Without immediate emergency food assistance, they too face starvation, as the slightest shock will push them over the cliff...
June 18, 2021
Famine risk spikes amid conflict, COVID-19 and funding gaps: WFP
BRUSSELS — Travelers from the United States will finally be allowed to visit Europe again this summer.The European Union's governing body has recommended that the bloc lift restrictions on non-essential travel from 14 countries, including the US, a move that would allow visitors from these destinations to vacation in Europe far more easily.In a statement announced on Friday, the European Council said member states should "gradually lift the travel restrictions at the external borders" for residents of the following countries: Albania, Australia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Republic of North Macedonia, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the US, and China, subject to confirmation of reciprocity.The United Kingdom was noticeably absent from the list,...
June 18, 2021
EU lifts travel restrictions for US travelers
GENEVA — New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide — taking more lives each year than HIV, malaria, breast cancer, war and homicide.
Based on its estimates that more than 700,000 people, or one-in-100, died by suicide in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced new "LIVE LIFE" guidelines to help countries reduce that rate by a third, no later than 2030.
“We cannot — and must not — ignore suicide,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
COVID-19 pressure
From job loss to financial stress and social isolation, the many risk factors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic make suicide prevention “even more important now”, said the top WHO official.
The WHO...
June 18, 2021
1 in 100 global deaths is by suicide, WHO says
June 17, 2021
French minister calls for new EU medical agency for vaccine research
June 16, 2021
Biden tells Putin: 'We need to set basic rules of the road'
June 16, 2021
US, Russia agree to return ambassadors to their
posts as Biden and Putin wrap up historic talks
June 16, 2021
UK PM's borders indecision allowed COVID-19
Delta variant to spread, claims Labour leader
June 16, 2021
France to drop mandatory mask-wearing outdoors Thursday, curfew on Sunday
June 16, 2021
EU must be 'more robust and resilient' against Russian attempts to undermine it: Borrell
