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World Health Organization (WHO) officers have mentioned COVID is not a world well being emergency, marking a symbolic finish to the pandemic."It's with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned. "That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat." "COVID-19 has changed our world and it has changed us," he mentioned, warning that the danger of recent variants nonetheless remained.The pandemic had been on a downward development for greater than a 12 months, he mentioned, acknowledging that almost all international locations have already returned to life earlier than COVIDRead extra:COVID might not be a world well being emergency, however virus hasn't disappeared to the backgroundT...

President Biden reportedly will nominate Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Air Force chief of workers, because the nation’s high army officer. If accredited by the Senate, Gen. Brown will succeed Army Gen. Mark A. Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff following his retirement this yr. Gen. Brown — o...

A Nigerian senator, his spouse and a medical "middleman" have been jailed for conspiring to site visitors a market dealer to the UK to reap his kidney.Politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his spouse Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia stood trial accused of a conspiracy to deliver the person to Britain from Lagos for his organ. The couple, together with medical "middleman" Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, have been discovered responsible within the Old Bailey in March.The Ekweremadus' daughter Sonia, who has a critical kidney situation, wept as she was cleared of the identical cost.At a sentencing listening to on Friday, Ekweremadu was jailed for 9 years and eight months, his spouse Beatrice was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months imprisonment whereas Obeta acquired a 10-year jail time ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed frustration on the United States’ persevering with efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, saying: “There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration.” Albanese’s feedback Friday i...

The Eta Aquariid meteor bathe is predicted to peak within the early hours of Saturday 6 May.It's time to camp out, collect your sleeping luggage and put together for an evening of stargazing, as you would possibly be capable of see a spectacular show of 120-160 taking pictures stars per hour. The Eta Aquariids happen when the Earth passes by means of the particles path of Comet Halley.Here's all the pieces you want to know.When is the Eta Aquariids meteor bathe this 12 months?According to Royal Museums Greenwich, the meteor bathe is energetic between 19 April and 28 May however will peak between midnight and daybreak on 6 May this 12 months.Bill Cooke, lead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office on the company's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, mentioned:...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A gunman apparently capturing at random killed eight folks and wounded 14 in three Serbian villages, authorities mentioned, shaking a nation nonetheless within the throes of grief over a mass capturing a day earlier. Police arrested a suspect Friday after an all-night manhunt. Serbi...

A person has been shot useless and several other individuals left injured throughout celebrations for Napoli's first league title win in 33 years.The 26-year-old man was taken to hospital in Naples in a critical situation the place he later died, Italian day by day newspaper La Repubblica reported. Friends and family members of the sufferer allegedly vandalised the emergency room the place he had been rushed to, ANSA and different Italian information businesses reported.A 26-year-old lady and two males, aged 20 and 24, additionally suffered gunshot wounds however their situations are usually not considered life-threatening.Police are investigating the capturing which passed off within the Piazza Volturno space of the town, with Naples Prefect Claudio Palomba telling RAI radio...

Threats from China and the potential of a warfare over Taiwan pose actual risks for the U.S., two prime intelligence officers stated throughout an annual briefing to Congress on Thursday. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines informed the Senate Armed Services Committee she frightened a miscalcula...

MEXICO CITY — Sons of former Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán have denied accusations made by U.S. prosecutors final month, saying in a letter that they haven't any involvement within the manufacturing and trafficking of the potent artificial opioid fentanyl. The letter was offered to The Ass...

We barely sluggish for crimson lights as vehicles pull out of our means.We just about take off as we scream over a hilly stretch of highway. We're on board a Red Cross ambulance answering an emergency name within the northern Mexican metropolis of Tijuana. It's one of the harmful cities on the planet.A two-person staff, speaking into the walkie-talkie, asks for particulars of the emergency."It's a shooting," paramedic Zulma Cruz tells me. "We get as many as a dozen a day sometimes," she says as we see blue lights flashing within the distance and move a National Guard car with a soldier holding a machine gun, silhouetted towards the night time sky. Image: Paramedic Zulma Cruz thinks loads of the violence is linked to the rising fen...