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WTO members agree on key issues at ministerial conference
Geneva, June 17 Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have agreed on key issues such as pandemic response, TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) waiver related to Covid-19, food security, World Food Programme Food Purchases Exemption, fishery subsidies, e-commerce and WTO reforms. The agreement came as the 12th ...1 in 8 people globally live with mental disorder: WHO
Geneva, June 17 About one in eight people in the world live with a mental disorder, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a landmark report released on Friday calling for urgent action on transforming mental healthcare. Even before the pandemic, in 2019, the number of people living with a ...US to provide $1bn additional security assistance to Ukraine
Washington, June 16 US President Joe Biden said his administration is providing Ukraine with additional security assistance worth $1 billion, as well as $225 million worth of humanitarian assistance. In a statement, the White House said that Biden made the commitment during a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr ...New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state territory was never a British colony
Hong Kong, June 15 New textbooks for Hong Kong schools will state that the territory was never a British colony, as per local media reports. Instead, the books will declare the British "only exercised colonial rule" in Hong Kong - a distinction drawn to highlight China's claims of unbroken sovereignty, ...Turkey seeks to persuade Russia, Ukraine into grain deal to prevent food crisis
Ankara, June 15 Turkey is seeking to broker a grain corridor from Ukraine across the Black Sea as part of a United Nations-backed effort to avert a food crisis. Ukraine is a major grain exporter to Africa and the Middle East. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict drags on, disruption to the ...Ten EU countries to join migrant relocation plan, says Cypriot minister
Nicosia, June 15 Ten European Union (EU) countries have accepted to participate in a migrant relocation plan, aimed at relieving pressure on the five so-called front EU states in the Mediterranean, Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday. Nouris told state CyBC radio that this was an encouraging development, ...Russia will provide passage for civilians to leave Azot factory but not by the route ...
Moscow, June 14 Russia will provide a way out for civilians at the Azot fertiliser factory in the contested city of Severodonetsk, but will use a different plan to that which Kiev requested, the Russian military said on Tuesday. The Ukrainian proposal may have been an attempt to extract its ...US FDA okays oral pill to treat alopecia, restore hair growth
Washington, June 14 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an oral drug to treat adult patients with severe alopecia areata -- a disorder that often appears as patchy baldness. Alopecia areata, commonly referred to as just alopecia, is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own ...Dangerous rebel leader killed in Colombia: President
Bogota, June 14 Colombian President Ivan Duque said the army has killed the leader of the dissident faction of the former guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). While celebrating his birthday with other rebels at a house in a rural area of the southwest department of Cauca, ...‘Traitors’ passed on vital coordinates to Russians: Mariupol mayor
Kiev, June 13 The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, who has left the city, claims "traitors" passed on coordinates to Russian forces early on, BBC reported. "They knew where to shell. There were many traitors who gave coordinates. Everything we had, everything that is considered the critical infrastructure of the ...
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