Photo courtesy of Foreign Media In the Canadian province of Alberta, fires raged out of control in many places due to strong winds during unusually hot and dry weather. According to international media reports, 25 thousand people have been evacuated from the affected areas of Alberta. The report states that more people in the affected…
“Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, briefing the media at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. According to WHO’s Coronavirus Dashboard which has collated key statistics since early in the pandemic, the cumulative cases worldwide now stand at 765,222,932, with nearly seven million…
Roughly 258 million in 58 countries faced acute hunger at crisis levels or worse, and people in seven countries faced potential starvation, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the report, although much of the growth reflects an increase in the population…
An emergency situation arose in a domestic flight of Iran Air, but the plane landed safely at Shiraz International Airport. According to aviation sources, Iran Air’s ATR 72-600 aircraft took off from Lamard International Airport at 11:11 on Tuesday morning to return to Shiraz as usual. 24 minutes after departure, the aircraft was en route…
A bird collided with a plane of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) airline during the flight. According to Indian media, a fire broke out after a bird hit the plane, due to which the plane made an emergency landing. Indian media say that the passenger plane was coming from Kathmandu airport to Dubai when the…
Twitter users who left the world also got blue ticks again On micro-blogging website Twitter, the confusion deepened over the weekend when some late high-profile accounts also got blue ticks again. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘836181349842357’); fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’); }, 6000); /*setTimeout(function(){ (function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs…
A new emergency alert service has been successfully tested in the UK. As soon as three o’clock, people’s mobile phones throughout the country rang with the sound of the emergency alert test. According to reports from London, a test emergency alert sent by the government lasted for 10 seconds. It has been reported that these…
—File photo A new emergency alert service will be trialled in the UK today. According to the report of the British media, the alarm will ring on the mobile phones today at 3 pm according to the British time. The British government says about this new emergency alert service that this new system is an…
An initial month-long crackdown on gangs was introduced on 27 March 2022 and has been regularly renewed, with the latest extension announced last week. At least 65,000 people, including children, have been detained since then. OHCHR underlined that the right to life, the absolute prohibition against torture, the principles of fair trial, and the procedural…
In an appeal for $178 million to support humanitarian assistance across the seven affected countries in the Greater Horn region, veteran WHO worker Liesbeth Aelbrecht warned that the situation was worse than anything she’d seen in more than two decades in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. “These 48 million people do include as…
