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[ad_1] Nearly 2,000 patients in Germany last year were diagnosed with genital mutilation in need of treatment, a women’s rights group said on Friday, showing a sharp increase in recent years. The figure is up almost 40% compared to 2016, when around 1,300 diagnoses were made of people who had …

[ad_1] Of all the problems that US President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will face when he takes office in January, conflicts with China over technology and cybersecurity may be among the most difficult to resolve. Disputes over China’s access to technology and US markets have exploded during the administration of …

[ad_1] Amid “disturbing reports” from Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan, the UN refugee agency on Friday called for “unrestricted access to Tigray to reach people in need.” Babar Baloch, spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reiterated the UN joint call for all parties to …

[ad_1] Still from the series “The Mandalorian” on the Disney streaming service Disney +. Disney On Thursday, Disney’s four-hour investor day was a show of force. Keeping people in front of screens for four hours to watch a trading day is absurd. The event had multiple intermissions! But as Disney …

[ad_1] The Ethiopian government has said it is returning Eritrean refugees to camps in the northern Tigray region, a move criticized by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) as “absolutely unacceptable”. In a statement on Friday stating that the fighting in Tigray is over, the Ethiopian government said its military …

[ad_1] Ahead of the International Day of Universal Health Coverage (December 12), as the world struggles to curb COVID-19, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and IOM Director General António Vitorino , stressed that health services must include all people, including migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons …

[ad_1] 3D illustration of a file with a list of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Noncommunicable diseases account for seven of the 10 leading causes of death in the world, a sharp increase from two decades ago, and heart disease remains the leading cause of death …

[ad_1] A health worker cares for a 23-year-old Burundian refugee after she gave birth to her baby at the Natukobenyo health clinic in the Kalobeyei settlement, Kenya, October 2020. © UNHCR / Samuel Otieno Ahead of the International Day of Universal Health Coverage (December 12), as the world struggles to …

[ad_1] The Telegraph Australia drops COVID-19 vaccine due to false positives for HIV Australia canceled production of a locally made Covid-19 vaccine after trial volunteers falsely tested positive for HIV, meaning the drug could interfere with the diagnosis of that virus. Antibodies generated by the pricks developed by the University …

[ad_1] International aid groups said on Friday that at least four staff members were killed in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The Danish Refugee Council (RDC) said its three employees killed last month had worked as guards at a project site. “Unfortunately, due to the lack of communications and …