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WHO warns unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution can lead to global risk
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 20 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged countries and drugmakers to help speed up the manufacture and distribution of vaccines across the globe, warning that the world could be "back at square one" if some coun
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IATA's Chief Economist Brian Pearce to retire in July
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 20 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that its Chief Economist Brian Pearce will retire from the organisation in July 2021.
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WHO believes badgers, rabbits could have spread COVID-19 to humans
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 19 (ANI/Sputnik): World Health Organization (WHO) experts investigating the pandemic's origins suggest that ferret badgers and rabbits, which were sold at a Wuhan market in China, could have played a role in spreading the novel coronavirus to humans, The Wall S
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Hashimoto Seiko appointed new president of Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], February 18 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday welcomed the decision of the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board to appoint seven-time Olympian Hashimoto Seiko as the new president of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee.
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UEFA cancels 2020/21 Youth League due to COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nyon [Switzerland], February 17 (ANI): The UEFA Executive Committee on Wednesday decided to cancel the 2020/21 edition of the UEFA Youth League due to COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the staging of competitions.
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Pakistan hasn't done enough to be white-listed by FATF
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 15 (ANI): Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force's plenary meeting scheduled to be held later this month, many countries said that Pakistan has not done enough to be "white-listed" for terror-sponsoring which makes Islamabad's prospects of exiting the grey li
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WHO gives AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines emergency use approval
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 16 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday (local time) gave emergency use approval (EUA) to two versions of AstraZeneca-Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccines, allowing these shots to be rolled out globally through COVAX. The vaccines are being produc
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Ajai Malhotra becomes first Indian chairperson of Advisory Committee at Hu
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Geneva [Switzerland], February 15 (ANI): Ajai Malhotra has become the first Indian to be elected as the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, said the Permanent Mission of India at United Nations, Geneva on Monday.
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IOC Executive Board proposes Olympic Agenda 2020+5 as the strategic roadma
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Lausanne [Switzerland], February 15 (ANI): The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has proposed a new strategic roadmap, Olympic Agenda 2020+5, to the upcoming IOC Session.
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China, Russia pull out from UNHRC resolution on Myanmar
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): China and Russia on Friday pulled out from a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on the situation in Myanmar following the military coup on February 1, reported NHK World.
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WHO open to all hypotheses on coronavirus origins: Tedros
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish a preliminary report next week, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
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Post-Covid digital economy must include persons with disabilities: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 12 (ANI): Advances in the digital economy significantly accelerated by Covid-19 pandemic are creating unprecedented opportunities to build a more inclusive world of work for the more than one billion people with disabilities globally, according to a new report
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