The World Health Organization's head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday the WHO was calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September. Tedros said the move was to enable that at least 10% of the population of every country was vaccinated. "We need instead to focus on those people who are most vulnerable, most at risk of severe disease

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Aug 4 (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant threatens areas with low vaccination rates.



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Global COVID-19 cases surpass 200 mln as Delta variant spreads

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is calling for a thorough investigation into the causes of last year’s Beirut port explosion that decimated large swathes of Lebanon’s capital city.  
The explosion of tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the Beirut Port killed more than 200 people, injured thousands more, and caused an estimated $15 billion in property damage, leaving some 300,000 people homeless.   Peop

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Last week, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Iran of carrying out a "deliberate, targeted" assault which constituted "a clear violation of international law".

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The Delta variant of COVID-19 is a warning to the world to suppress the virus quickly before it mutates again into something even worse, the WHO said Friday.
The highly-transmissible variant, first detected in India, has now surfaced in 132 countries and territories, the World Health Organization said.
"Delta is a warning: it's a warning that the virus is evolving but it is also a call to action that we need to move now before

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The European Union said on Friday it had adopted a legal framework for a sanctions regime targeting Lebanese individuals and entities after a year of crisis that has left Lebanon facing financial collapse, hyperinflation and food and fuel shortages.



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GENEVA - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting COVID-19, as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads, but WHO-approved vaccines remain effective against the disease, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus as being as transmissible as chickenpox

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Kuwait on Wednesday, where he pledged his support for the UN agency's investigation in China into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

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