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WHO assessing reports on risks related to AstraZeneca vaccine against COVI
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 12 (ANI): A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sputnik that its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) was carefully assessing the reports on risks related to the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19.
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WTO calls for ramping up vaccine production in developing nations
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI/Sputnik): World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has called on pharmaceutical companies to scale up the production of coronavirus vaccines in developing countries to overcome supply shortage.
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Pakistan has no locus standi on J&K, says exiled PoK leader
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): With Pakistan planning to make occupied Gilgit-Baltistan as its province, exiled Kashmiri leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has said that Islamabad has no locus standi on the "erstwhile princely state" of Jammu and Kashmir.
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European think-tank urges UN to hold Pakistan accountable for promoting te
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): An European think-tank has urged the United Nations to hold Pakistan accountable for promoting terrorism and failing to live up to its legal and moral obligations towards its own people and the international community.
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Air travellers gaining confidence, time to plan for restart: IATA
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced results from its latest poll of recent travellers, showing growing confidence in a return to air travel, frustration with current travel restrictions and acceptance of a travel app to manag
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One in 3 women subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): One in three women worldwide face physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner at some point in their lifetime, as per a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Pakistan treating PoK its `colony', lambasts Kashmiri activist
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 9 (ANI): An exiled Kashmiri leader has lambasted Islamabad for using Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan as its colonies for over seven decades and exploiting its natural resources.
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UN condemns killing of 23 people in Iran's border area of Pakistan
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): The United Nations has said as many as 23 people were killed in Iran's Sistan Baluchistan province when authorities opened fire on fuel porters and protestors last month.
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Part of Jammu & Kashmir illegally held by Pakistan since 1947, says UK
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled Chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) on Saturday (local time) said that Pak occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan were a part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir but have been illegally h
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COVAX delivered 20 million doses to world's poor in first week of distribu
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 6 (ANI): Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's director-general, said on Friday, COVAX -- the international program set up to get coronavirus vaccines to the world -- delivered 20 million vaccine doses to 20 countries in the first week of
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New research makes possible to track proteins in 'heart' of cells
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Bern [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): A clinical study led by researchers at the University of Geneva have discovered a fluorescent chemical dye, making it possible for the first time to track the transport activity of a specific motor protein within a cell.
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Human rights activist writes to UN about Pak-sponsored terrorist attacks o
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Geneva [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): Professor Fernand de Varennes, special rapporteur on minority issues on Tuesday has written a letter to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) informing about the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks on the Hindu minority communi
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