LONDON (Reuters) – A global trial designed to test whether antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infection, will restart after being approved by British regulators. FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist shows a box of hydroxychloroquine at CHR Center Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Liège, …
Read More »Russia denies nuclear incident after international body finds isotopes
MOSCOW / STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday it had detected no signs of a radiation emergency, after an international body reported last week that sensors in Stockholm had detected unusually high levels of radioactive isotopes produced by nuclear fission. . FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov visits Dream …
Read More »Michelle Bachelet of the UN says Israel’s annexation plans are “illegal” | News
Israel’s goal of annexing parts of the occupied West Bank is clearly “illegal,” the United Nations chief of human rights said Monday, warning that the consequences could be “disastrous.” Just a few days before Israel intends to launch plans to annex its settlements in the West Bank and parts of …
Read More »ASEAN leaders cite 1982 UN treaty in South China Sea dispute | World News
Southeast Asian leaders said a 1982 UN ocean treaty should be the foundation of sovereign rights in the South China Sea, in one of their strongest comments opposing China’s claim by virtually all waters in dispute for historical reasons. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) took office …
Read More »Sensors detect the rise of nuclear particles in the Baltic Sea, according to a global body
VIENNA (Reuters) – Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-normal but still harmless levels of nuclear fission-produced isotopes, likely from or near the Baltic Sea, an agency operating a global network said on Friday. of sensors. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) oversees a network of hundreds of …
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