The UN Water Conference, which opened on Wednesday, is taking place as this vital natural resource is being depleted, polluted and mismanaged. The three-day event – co-hosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Tajikistan – falls at the halfway point for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include the promise of ensuring all…
Access to NCD Medicines: Emergent Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Key Structural Factors, highlights the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to NCD medicines, and the policies and strategies implemented by countries to both anticipate and mitigate the disruption that has hit medical supply chains. Pandemic shortages During the pandemic, people living with cancer, heart diseases, chronic…
“This should be a period for safe and peaceful religious reflection and celebration for all,” said Tor Wennesland, the UN’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Diplomatic engagement The Special Coordinator recalled that, on 26 February, senior officials from Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and the United States met in Aqaba, Jordan, to reaffirm…
Some two billion people still have no access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion, use sanitation services that leave human waste untreated. Access to safe water and sanitation offer a pathway to social and economic progress by supporting community health and productivity. From solutions to actions The world needs to progress four times faster…
Secretary-General António Guterres told a conference side event dedicated to the issue of preserving the world’s glaciers that new data released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed global average sea levels have already risen faster since 1900, “than over any preceding century in the last 3,000 years.” ‘Erased forever’ He said that “low-lying communities and entire countries could be…
Rescue personnel are engaged in action after the drone attack. Late last night, Russia launched a drone attack on the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, in which 3 people were killed and 7 injured. The emergency service said that three people were killed, two were injured and one was rescued. Four people are buried under the…
A man was set on fire by an unknown person while returning home from a mosque in Birmingham, United Kingdom. According to foreign media, the person returning home from the mosque was stopped by an unknown person and there was a conversation between the two, after which the accused sprinkled something on the person and…
File photo The US is likely to get the green signal to sell laboratory-grown chicken meat for public consumption. According to US media, citizens are one step closer to being able to buy chicken produced from animal cells, also known as lab-grown meat. According to reports, the company making such chicken products has announced that…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Former US President Donald Trump’s supporters were upset after pictures of him being suddenly arrested by the police surfaced on social media. According to foreign media, the images of Donald Trump’s arrest on social media have been created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), which have nothing to do with…
File photo In the UAE, the sentences of more than 1,000 prisoners were pardoned before Ramadan. According to Arab media, Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued orders to release prisoners before Ramadan. According to foreign media, Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates is starting from Thursday. According to Arab media, prisoners…
