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Child vaccine coverage faltering, threatening millions: study
AFP, Published on 25/06/2025
» PARIS - Efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases are faltering across the world due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation, putting millions of lives at risk, research warned Wednesday.
Macron, Sunak seek to overcome years of feuding
AFP, Published on 09/03/2023
» PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will seek to reset cross-Channel relations at a Paris meeting on Friday, signalling an end to years of feuding between the two capitals.
'Perfect storm': Europe Covid rise due to fewer curbs, subvariant
AFP, Published on 22/03/2022
» PARIS: Covid-19 is again surging in Western Europe due to a "perfect storm" of governments lifting restrictions, waning immunity and the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subvariant, experts said Monday.
US on 'threshold' of living with coronavirus: Fauci
AFP, Published on 12/01/2022
» WASHINGTON: Despite soaring cases and record-high Covid-19 hospitalizations, the United States is approaching the "threshold" of transitioning to living with the coronavirus as a manageable disease, Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.
New Covid variant shuts borders across the globe
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» THE HAGUE - A new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant spread across the globe on Sunday, shutting borders and renewing curbs as the EU chief said governments faced a "race against time" to understand the strain.
Nobel Peace Prize buzz for press freedom, Belarus and Greta
AFP, Published on 08/10/2021
» OSLO - Media watchdogs, Belarus opposition leaders and climate campaigners such as Greta Thunberg are among those tipped as contenders for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to be announced in Oslo on Friday.
Australia to start reopening border next month
AFP, Published on 01/10/2021
» SYDNEY: Australia will begin reopening its borders next month, the prime minister said on Friday, 18 months after citizens were banned from travelling overseas without permission and foreign arrivals largely banned.
IMF, World Bank prioritize vaccine access to end pandemic
AFP, Published on 02/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - After kicking their massive lending powers into overdrive to help the nations hardest hit by Covid-19 last year, the IMF and the World Bank are now focusing on getting vaccines to poor countries to keep the pandemic from derailing the global economic recovery.
Monster cyclone batters Covid-stricken India's west coast
AFP, Published on 18/05/2021
» MAHUVA, India: A monster cyclone was lashing India Tuesday, with powerful winds and driving rain leaving at least 20 people dead, and interrupting the vaccine programme the country urgently needs to get its spiralling Covid-19 outbreak under control.
After shift on vaccine patents, US backs freer flow of components
AFP, Published on 07/05/2021
» PARIS - The new US position in support of lifting patents on Covid-19 vaccines has taken attention away from an equally significant change by Washington, which plans to open up trade in the raw materials used to make them.