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WHO to say if it will trigger highest alert on monkeypox

Faced with a surge in monkeypox cases, the head of the World Health Organization is  Saturday expected to declare if the agency has decided to  classify the outbreak as a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.. On June 23, the WHO convened an emergency committee (EC) of experts to decide if monkeypox constitutes a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) -- the UN health agency's highest alert level. 

Sat, Jul 23, 2022 2 mins read
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In Ukraine's Siversk, a grave dug on a sidewalk

Oleksy's grave was dug hastily on the sidewalk near one of the few buildings still standing in Siversk, a small town in eastern Ukraine near the frontline of the war with Russia.. But others have evacuated or are doing so now as the fighting for eastern Ukraine intensifies.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 2 mins read
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Macron embarks on first Africa trip of new term

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday begins a three-nation tour of western African states in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot France's post-colonial relationship with the continent.. The trip to three countries which rarely feature on the itinerary of global leaders comes with Macron, who won a new term in April, pledging to keep up his bid for a new relationship between France and Africa.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 3 mins read
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UK's Truss urges French action as Dover delays snarl British summer getaway

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Friday urged Paris to act to ease "unacceptable" delays at the English Channel port Dover, where officials blamed French border force understaffing for "ruining" summer getaways with hours-long queues.. "Woefully inadequate French border resource ruins start to the summer getaway," the port said in a statement.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 3 mins read
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EU launches new legal moves against UK over N. Ireland

The European Commission on Friday launched four new legal proceedings against Britain over London's failure to implement Brexit divorce terms to govern trade with Northern Ireland.. The proceedings by Brussels add to the legal case load after a year-long truce as the EU challenges a British government bid to scrap parts of post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 2 mins read
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Czechs start razing pig farm built over WWII Roma camp

The demolition of a sprawling pig farm, built on the site of a wartime concentration camp for the Roma minority south of Prague, got underway on Friday following decades of controversy.. The Moscow-steered communist regime, which ruled in former Czechoslovakia after the war, built the pig farm on the site in the 1970s.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 2 mins read
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Photo triggered Amazon murders of journalist, guide: AG

The murders in June of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon were likely sparked when they sought to photograph a boat belonging to their killers, the Attorney General's office said Friday.. Pereira had asked Phillips to photograph the boat, according to a statement from the office that said this detail may count as an aggravating factor in sentencing.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 1 mins read
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UN court rejects Myanmar challenge to genocide case

The UN's highest court ruled on Friday that a landmark case accusing military-ruled Myanmar of genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims can go ahead.. Mainly-Muslim The Gambia filed the case in November 2019 alleging that Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.

Fri, Jul 22, 2022 3 mins read
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