GENEVA (AA) – The UK and World Health Organization have launched a new health and climate change platform to help countries realize pledges made at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). The Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate Change and Health (ATACH) held its first meeting on June 27 in its quest to achieve [...
The federal government has given out more than $10 billion to people suffering from health conditions related to the 9/11 attacks, The New York Daily News reports. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund had disbursed $10 billion in aid as of June 6. Benjamin Chevat, executive director of 911 [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Monday the health of an Israeli soldier in its captivity has deteriorated. “We announce a deterioration in the health of one of the enemy prisoners in captivity,” Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Telegram. He said [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Even as the Pakistan government is planning to launch a countrywide survey to document the exact number of narcotic drug users, estimates suggest that there has been a slight decrease over the past decade. Authorities say that rough estimates so far suggest that some 9 million people or slightly over 4% […]
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Mushtaq Ahmad, 55, in the Indian occupied Kashmir was struck with tragedy last year when his younger son died of a drug overdose at the age of 17. “We found him locked inside a washroom and when we opened the door, he was lying lifeless near the toilet,” Ahmad […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Newly elected Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud disclosed on Friday that he had tested positive for coronavirus. He added that so far he was asymptomatic. “My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19,” Mohamud, who took office in May after winning the...
VIENNA (AA) – More than 280 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, the head of the UN drugs agency said on Thursday. In a message released ahead of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, Ghada Fathi Waly, the director-general of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said that […]
GENEVA (AA) – Amid reports of surging cases in Europe, a special committee of the World Health Organization began meeting Thursday to decide whether monkeypox should be declared a global “public health emergency.” The emergency committee will advise the WHO chief “on whether the event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of Internationa...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Researchers in Bangladesh detected two cases of a more infectious omicron subvariant of the coronavirus Tuesday amid a sharp rise in infections there of the deadly disease. A research team detected the subvariant called BA.4/5 in two men in the southwestern district of Jessore. The men, between 44 and 79 years [&...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan King Mohammed VI has contracted coronavirus, according to the king’s private physician on Thursday. The monarch “contracted an asymptomatic form of the COVID-19,” Professor Lahcen Belyamani said in a statement carried by the official Maghreb Agency. On Nov. 9, the Moroccan government decided to lift a night...
