There is a “massive disconnect rising” on the COVID-19 front, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The pandemic is far from over,” he said, “and it won’t be over everywhere until it’s over everywhere.”
Dr Tedros said today (17 May) at a press conference in Geneva that there had been a global decrease in COVID-19 cases and deaths over the previous two weeks.
Concerning the Middle East, the WHO director-general said the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel was “extremely concerning,” adding that “dozens of accidents involving health personnel and health facilities have occurred in the recent escalation of violence.” According to him, COVID-19 monitoring and vaccination have been seriously hampered, posing a health danger to the “whole country.”
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The Thai Foreign Ministry urged Myanmar’s military junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi in a statement that also welcomed this week’s move of the former de facto leader to house arrest.
Survivors say that twenty-five years ago this week,(April 17, 1999),Serbian forces massacred 53 Albanians in the Kosovar village of Poklek, including 24 children. It was.It was one of the worst massacres of the war in Kosovo.
Three people severely burned in an explosion at a shop in Bangladesh earlier this week had to be taken for treatment 18 miles (29 km) away to the capital Dhaka because there were no health facilities in Savar, the site of the blaze.
Permanent Representative of Israel,Gilad Erdan to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question
An ethnic armed group intercepted a junta retaliation near the Thai-Myanmar border on Thursday, according to an announcement from rebel forces.
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam suffered severe damage from Russian shelling in late March. For residents of Zaporizhzhia and those living up and downstream, the attack on the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station and dam poses a challenge.
Nearly four dozen members of the Burmese junta-affiliated Border Guard Police and soldiers have fled to Bangladesh since Tuesday night amid intensifying fighting between junta troops and Arakan Army rebels in neighboring Rakhine state, officials said.