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April 12, 2021
One person dead after a shooting
outside a hospital in Paris: Police
LONDON — Millions of people in England are poised for their first chance in months for haircuts, casual shopping and restaurant meals on Monday, as the government takes the next step on its lockdown-lifting road map.Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are following their own, broadly similar, plans.Nationwide restrictions have been in place in England since early January, with similar rules in the other parts of the UK, to suppress a surge in coronavirus infections that swept the country late last year, linked to a more transmissible new variant first identified in southeast England.Britain has had Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak, with more than 127,000 confirmed deaths.But infections, hospitalizations and deaths have all fallen thanks to the lockdown, and a mass vaccination...
April 12, 2021
UK eases COVID restrictions while much of mainland Europe grapples with surge
April 12, 2021
Germany's COVID-19 cases top 3 million amid calls for tighter restrictions
April 11, 2021
Arrests across Europe as people flout or protest COVID-19 restrictions
GENEVA — In some of the poorest parts of the world, where there is no access to a reliable electricity grid, the UN is equipping hundreds of health facilities with solar technologies, allowing them to avoid power outages and save lives.Formerly dependent on costly and polluting diesel generators, which often do not provide sufficient electricity, over 900 health facilities, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been provided with equipment such as solar rooftops and batteries.It has given them access to clean, affordable and reliable electricity, while saving money, which can be re-invested in health services.The health facilities benefiting from the UN Development Program-supported Solar for Health initiative are making a positive contribution to the vaccine rollouts in their countries:...
April 11, 2021
Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment
LONDON — Prince Philip, the late husband to the UK's Queen Elizabeth II, will be laid to rest on Saturday next week, in a ceremony that will be colorful and steeped in tradition, but low key by royal standards.Philip, who was officially the Duke of Edinburgh, died peacefully at Windsor Castle on Friday morning at the age of 99. He was the nation's longest-serving consort — a term given to the spouse of a reigning monarch — and they had been married for 73 years.Harry, the Duke of Sussex, will attend his grandfather's funeral, but his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, won't be present, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said. The couple are living in California and a doctor had advised the duchess, who is pregnant, against traveling to the UK, the spokesperson...
April 10, 2021
Prince Philip to be laid to rest in low-key ceremony; Prince Harry to attend funeral
GENEVA — The world is “a long way off” from meeting the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the president of the crucial upcoming UN climate conference, COP26, said on Thursday.British politician Alok Sharma was speaking during a global discussion on the ‘green’ transition in sectors such as energy, transport and food systems, held as part of the 2021 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).“Oceans are warming, storms are intensifying, and yet we are a long way off meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement”, he told the virtual meeting. “Unless we act now, the human, economic and environmental cost will dwarf anything that humanity has seen before.”John Kerry: Last chance to get serious COP26, which will be held this...
April 10, 2021
Paris goals still ‘long way off’, says UN climate conference prez
April 10, 2021
New project to help 30 developing countries tackle marine litter scourge
April 09, 2021
Norway PM fined nearly 2,000 euros for breaking coronavirus rules
April 09, 2021
UN chief welcomes IMF and World Bank measures to address COVID-related debt crisis
