At least nine dead and 45 others wounded as passenger train derails in the eastern state’s Jalpaiguri district. Rescuers have found four bodies overnight as they clear the 12 mangled coaches of a train that derailed in India’s West Bengal state, raising the death toll to nine, a railroad official said. By Faith Barbara Namagembe…
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WHO adds new drugs for COVID treatment.
Latest recommendations prompt new calls for patent waivers to allow more people access to treatments. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0948 EAT on 14 January 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) has added two more drugs to its guidelines for recommended treatments for COVID-19, as the more infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus triggers…
NATO and Russia Talks as regards to Ukraine war
NATO warns Russia it will not compromise on the alliance’s principles, but invites Moscow to more talks over Ukraine security fears. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0647 EAT on 13 January 2022. NATO and the United States have rejected key Russian security demands for easing tensions over Ukraine but left open the possibility of…
South African King arrested for growing marijuana.
By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 2248 EAT on 12 January 2022. What you need to know: Their leader, wearing a traditional loincloth, clung to a shoulder-height plant as police dragged it across the presidential lawn in Pretoria before arresting him. South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside…
COVID boosters not viable strategy: says WHO.
UN health agency calls for new vaccines that better protect against transmission amid emerging coronavirus variants. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 11 Jan 2022 at 2236 EAT Repeating booster doses of the original COVID vaccines is not a viable strategy against emerging variants, the World Health Organization (WHO) said as it predicts that more than…
2021 was characterized by high temperatures as emissions surged
The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says the last seven years were the warmest ‘by a clear margin’ since records began. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0712 EAT on 11 January 2022. The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit…
North Korea fires ballistic missile, second in a week.
Launch was detected by Japan and South Korea and comes after six countries urged Pyongyang to end “destabilising” actions. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0632 EAT on 11 January 2022. North Korea fired what may have been a ballistic missile on Tuesday morning, Japan and South Korea said, less than a week after Pyongyang…
US and Russia meet in Geneva as Ukraine still in Chaos.
By faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0622 EAT on 11 January 2022. Russia and the United States gave no sign that they had narrowed their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says it cannot accept. Russia has massed troops near Ukraine’s border while demanding…
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