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Temperatures Are Rising As The El Nino Weather Trend Is Back

After the El Nino weather pattern erupted in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organisation predicted that temperatures will spike in many regions of the world.   El Nino, a rise in water surface temperatures in the eastern and...

UN Food Agency Informs Hike In Global Food Prices - A First Time In Nine Months

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's world price index climbed in April for the first time in a year, although it is still 20% lower than a record high set in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.   The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) price index, which tracks...

IMF's Chief Says Ukraine Is Just "Weeks" Away From Receiving Full Support Program

According to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, a comprehensive program of support for Ukraine is still several weeks away from being finalized.   This comes hours after the IMF announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Ukrainian authorities at the staff...

UN Concerned About Not Much Time Being Left With Surge In Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse gas concentrations rose at above-average rates to new highs last year, according to the United Nations weather agency, which warned that time is running out for people to make the transformational changes required to limit global temperature rises.   The World Meteorological...

With Extensive New Export Regulations, US Hopes To Cripple China's Chip Industry

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing's technological and military advances.  ...

Experts Urge WHO And Governments To Take Stronger Action Against Monkeypox

A huge monkeypox outbreak has expanded to at least 20 nations, prompting some notable infectious disease experts to call for speedier action from global health authorities to contain it.   They argue that governments and the World Health Organization should not repeat the COVID-19 pandemic's...

Many More Cases Of Monkeypox Likely To Emerge Worldwide, Expects WHO

The World Health Organization expects to find more instances of monkeypox when surveillance is expanded in places where the disease is uncommon.   According to the United Nations, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 non-endemic member states as...

The Quad-Supported Vaccine Roll-Out Will Commence In The Early Half Of The Year.

The first batch of Covid-19 vaccinations, developed by India's Biological E as part of the Quad group of countries' commitment to providing shots around the world, will be available in the first half of 2022, the grouping said in a statement on Friday.   Australia, Japan, India, and the...

WHO Chief Tedros Discussed With Chinese Premier About Collaboration On Covid Origins

The Chief of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has discussed the requirement for stronger partnership on the issue of ascertaining the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Tedros said in a Tweet.     The issue of the origin of the...

The Cashless Economy Paradox: A Renewed Reliance on Cash During COVID

Despite initial predictions that the onslaught of the coronavirus would be the demise of physical money, people have turned to cash in this time of uncertainty. Historically, the amount of cash in circulation has increased during times of upheaval. Even though we are living in a digital era and...

According To WHO There Is More Proof That Omicron Results In Milder Symptoms

  According to the World Health Organization, more scientific proof is starting to emerge that the Omicron coronavirus variant affects the upper respiratory tract, resulting in milder symptoms compared to the previous variants and resulting in a "decoupling" in some...

New Studies: Omicron Not Likely To Evade T Cells; Booster Doses Can Help Omicron Away From Households

Recent research has claimed that the omicron variant of the coronavirus is unable to get past the second-line defense of the human body.   According to a new study, T cells, a crucial component of the immune system's second-line defense, are extremely effective in recognizing and fighting...
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