[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS, Jan.1 (Xinhua) – An estimated 371,504 babies will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. As the calendar approaches 2021, UNICEF once again celebrates the new lives that will be brought to the world on January 1. Fiji …
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[ad_1] The two women and 12 children recently released by the German Foreign Ministry from al-Hol prison camp in northern Syria have returned to Germany. It was a humanitarian gesture on the part of Germany. And for the Kurdish self-government, it means less burden on its security forces. The camp …
Read More »Make 2021 a ‘safer and healthier world for children’, urges UNICEF chief
[ad_1] The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday that more than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021. “Children born today enter a very different world than a year ago, and a New Year provides a new opportunity to reinvent it,” said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF …
Read More »COVID-19 cases in Morocco increased from 1,777 to 440,970
[ad_1] RABAT, Jan.1 (Xinhua) – Morocco registered 1,777 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total count in the North African country to 440,970, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The total number of COVID-19 recoveries in Morocco reached 409,638 after 2,134 new ones were added. The death …
Read More »Paramedic on New Years Honor Roll Calls for Global Health Equality | Inequality
[ad_1] A paramedic who volunteered for eight months to care for people in one of the world’s most remote communities has called for steps to be taken to erode stark inequalities in global health after receiving a British Empire Medal (BEM) for emergency medicine and disaster response services. Nich Woolf, …
Read More »As more COVID-19 vaccines get approved, experts debate whether it’s time for trial volunteers to get the real deal
[ad_1] In an ideal world, vaccine trial participants might wait to find out whether they received the sham injection or the vaccine. But experts agree that current circumstances are extraordinary Tens of thousands of people in the United States and around the world have volunteered to take the test. COVID-19 …
Read More »‘No need to panic,’ says Chinese official on coronavirus variants
[ad_1] National review China’s ‘capitalist’ experiment bill expires The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reawakened to a profound truth: wealthy and secure capitalists are the natural enemies of authoritarian regimes. In an autocratic-capitalist hybrid model, capitalism is the means to generate wealth, but power is the end goal. Successful capitalists …
Read More »The Wildest Space Stories of 2020
[ad_1] The year 2020 It was the year the cosmos got a little closer. While our own planet was ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, space agencies and scientists were busy looking beyond the confines of Earth and into a future where humans would increasingly venture into space. To celebrate a …
Read More »Millions of PC users may still be running Windows 7
[ad_1] Most people don’t care at all what version of Windows you are running on your PC as long as the PC is running. This is a problem Microsoft faces when trying to get people to update their operating system when new versions of Windows cost so much. Microsoft officially …
Read More »Adobe Flash is dead – here’s what that means
[ad_1] Garter / Shutterstock Support for Adobe Flash officially ended on December 31, 2020, effectively removing the platform. The now-discontinued web plugin will be remembered for its golden age of animated internet memes and the never-ending security issues that eventually led to its demise. Let’s take a look at Flash, …
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