UN News - The General Assembly body dealing with UN administrative and budgetary matters (Fifth Committee) had discussed and approved the $3.231 billion budget for 2021. 168 United Nations Member States cast their ballots in favour, two against (Israel, United States) and no abstentions. After more than four decades
AP News - California announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the infection found in Southern California
Governor Jared Polis reported that Colorado has its first case of the COVID-19 variant seen in the United Kingdom. The variant was found in a man in his 20s who has no travel history. He was place in isolation in southeast of Denver in Elbert County. Another
UN News - As the world enters 2021, after a “year of trials, tragedies and tears”, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has delivered a message of hope for the new year. Praising the kindness shown by people around the world, the tireless efforts of frontline workers, the scientists who have developed vaccines in record time, and the countries making new advances to save the
AP Story - US health officials believe the coronavirus mutation that set off alarms in parts of Britain is no more apt to cause serious illness or be resistant to vaccines than the strain afflicting people in the United States but it still must be
UN News - Inequality between the rich and poor worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty increased, for the first time in decades. In part two of our series on how the virus has changed the world, we look at the ways the pandemic has
AP — Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots. “Vaccines for everybody, especially for the
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that all of the world’s coral reefs could bleach by the end of the century, unless there are drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. “In the face of inaction, coral reefs will soon disappear,” said Leticia Carvalho, head of UNEP’s Marine
PAHO News - On 14 December 2020, authorities of the United Kingdom (UK) reported that a SARS-CoV-2 variant has been identified through viral genomic sequencing in 1,108 individuals as of 13 December 2020. Given the identified variant strain can be dated back to September 2020 in
UN News - The UN health agency chief said that scientists have been working to understand new COVID-19 variants that have been reported in South Africa and the United Kingdom. According to news reports, more than 40 countries have now banned arrivals from the UK, because
