The new coronavirus has had a devastating impact around the world, but the World Health Organization warned Monday that worse pandemics are coming, urging the world to take preparedness “seriously”. “This is a wake-up call,” WHO emergency chief Michael Ryan told reporters in a briefing marking a year since the …
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India on Monday rejected Pakistan’s criticism of the human rights situation in the country, calling on Islamabad to do more to address issues such as persecution of minorities, enforced disappearances and the influx of outsiders into Pakistani-occupied Kashmir ( PoK). Also read: Surgical Strike Day: How Army Soldiers Destroyed The …
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GENEVA: India again gave an adequate response to Pakistan at the 45th meeting of the Human Rights Council in the United Nations on Friday saying the world does not need lessons on human rights from a country that has been known as a “hotbed and epicenter of terrorism.” At the …
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NEW DELHI: In what is sure to further destabilize Indo-Pak relations, Pakistan denied Indian diplomat Jayant Khobragade a visa, rejecting his appointment as India’s Chargé d’Affaires in Islamabad. The Khobragade name had been officially proposed in June this year. In the same month, India had also further reduced diplomatic ties …
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries around the world to join forces to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, saying that “vaccine nationalism” would only delay the response to the pandemic. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had joined the global “COVAX” vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 …
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[ad_1] New Delhi: The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday announced that its CEO Roberto Azevêdo has decided to step down effective August 31, a year earlier than planned. Azevedo’s exit, whose second four-year term was scheduled to end in September 2021, comes at a time when the world is …
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