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WHO says life with coronavirus must be considered new normal +World updates
Apr 21, 2020 08:32The World Health Organization (WHO) says life with the new coronavirus must be considered a new normal until vaccination or effective treatment is developed for the disease caused by the pathogen (COVID-19).
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Trump’s defunding of the WHO threatens to make the pandemic worse
Apr 19, 2020 14:36If US President Donald Trump were serious about containing the coronavirus pandemic, he would be proposing large grants to bolster public health systems and disease containment strategies globally. Instead, all-too-predictably, as U.S. death rates from the virus soar, he seeks to score cheap political points with his base by castigating and now defunding the World Health Organization.
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UN Chief calls for protection of Palestinian prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 17, 2020 12:48United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded the protection of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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US Republicans call for WHO chief to resign
Apr 17, 2020 06:12Republican US lawmakers have thrown their weight behind President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), insisting that unless its director general resigns Washington should not resume payments to the international body.
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Europe remains 'in the eye' of coronavirus storm: WHO
Apr 16, 2020 23:58The World Health Organization's European office says that despite certain "optimistic signs" in some of the countries worst hit by the new coronavirus, the number of cases is rising and approaching one million in the continent alone.
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UN Libya mission ‘alarmed’ by rise in violence, slams rebel shelling of Tripoli
Apr 16, 2020 08:07The United Nations mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has censured the rising violence in the North African country, expressing alarm about a fresh round of clashes raging through areas on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli.
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US to live in infamy for defunding WHO amid virus pandemic: Zarif
Apr 15, 2020 14:27Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out at the US for deciding to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the world may now better realize Tehran’s long experience of bearing the brunt of Washington’s bullying that kills people.
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United Nations supports frontline COVID-19 response
Apr 13, 2020 10:58As the coronavirus pandemic spreads to more than 200 countries and territories, killing more than 100,000 people, the United Nations is redoubling its support for frontline responders who are working around the clock to save lives.
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Yemeni crisis has no military solution, Iran’s FM tells UN chief
Apr 13, 2020 03:25Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talked about the crisis in Yemen and ways to maintain a recent ceasefire in the war-hit country.
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Zarif, Guterres discuss US sanctions, Yemen crisis
Apr 12, 2020 01:59Iran’s foreign minister and the UN secretary general have conferred on the US sanctions on the Islamic Republic amid the COVID-19 outbreak.