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 A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish town of Orebro on Thursday night, killing nine people including the pilot. — Courtesy file photo
8 skydivers, 1 pilot killed in small plane crash in Sweden
STOCKHOLM — A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish town of Orebro on Thursday night, killing nine people including the pilot. The small aircraft, a DHC-2 Turbo Beaver, crashed and killed eight skydivers and one pilot. It crashed near the runway at Orebro airport shortly after takeoff and caught fire at impact, the Swedish police said in a statement on its official website."It’s a very severe accident. Everyone on board the crashed plane has died,” the statement added. The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority dispatched a team to the accident site outside Orebro, which sits 164 kilometers west of Stockholm, AP reported. Expressing grief at the incident, Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Lofven wrote on Twitter, "It is with great sadness and sorrow...
July 09, 2021

8 skydivers, 1 pilot killed in small plane crash in Sweden

Lilith, not her real name, was trafficked from Nicaragua as a teenager and now lives in Costa Rica. — Courtesy file photo
New UN report reveals impact of COVID-19 on human trafficking
NEW YORK — A new study released on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) illustrates the devastating impact of COVID-19 on victims and survivors of human trafficking and highlights the increased targeting and exploitation of children during the course of the pandemic. The study further assesses how frontline organizations responded to the challenges posed and continued to deliver essential services, despite restrictions across and within national borders.Online prey Meanwhile, traffickers took advantage of the global crisis, capitalizing on peoples’ loss of income and the increased amount of time both adults and children were spending online. “The pandemic has increased vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons while making trafficking even harder to detect and...
July 08, 2021

New UN report reveals impact of COVID-19 on human trafficking

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
UK eases COVID-19 restrictions, allows quarantine-free visit for travelers from ‘amber list’ countries
Saudi Gazette reportLONDON — Fully vaccinated UK residents arriving in England from “amber list” countries will no longer have to quarantine from July 19.They will, however, still need to pay for coronavirus tests before and after their return, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said as he set out the details to enable people to travel to “amber list” countries.The transport secretary clarified that only those who have passed 14 days after taking their final dose a vaccine approved in the UK will be considered fully vaccinated.Those who have been fully vaccinated and are returning from amber countries will still be required to complete a pre-departure test before arrival into England, alongside a PCR test on or before day 2 after arrival. They will not have to take a day 8 test...
July 08, 2021

UK eases COVID-19 restrictions, allows quarantine-free visit for travelers from ‘amber list’ countries

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Scientists condemn UK's 'dangerous and unethical' reopening plans
LONDON — Calling it a "dangerous and unethical experiment," more than 4,000 scientists, doctors, nurses and other professionals signed a letter published Wednesday condemning the British government's plans to drop most pandemic control measures in England on July 19 (Saturday)."We believe this decision is dangerous and premature," they wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal."The UK Government must reconsider its current strategy and take urgent steps to protect the public, including children. We believe the government is embarking on a dangerous and unethical experiment, and we call on it to pause plans to abandon mitigations on July 19, 2021," they added. "Instead, the government should delay complete re-opening until everyone,...
July 08, 2021

Scientists condemn UK's 'dangerous and unethical' reopening plans

Sweden's parliament has voted to re-appoint caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to lead a new government. — Courtesy file photo
Stefan Lofven back as Swedish PM weeks after no-confidence vote
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's parliament has voted to re-appoint caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to lead a new government. The leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party was backed by the Green Party to give Lofven the exact number needed to secure a majority. As many as 173 MPs voted against Lofven, in a debate that came just sixteen days after the former prime minister resigned. Lofven stepped down as prime minister after losing a historic no-confidence vote on June 21 over proposed legislation to tackle a housing shortage. Until then, he headed a minority government made up of a coalition between the Social Democratic and the Greens. Instead of calling an early election, the former PM chose to open coalition talks, which are overseen by Sweden's parliamentary speaker,...
July 08, 2021

Stefan Lofven back as Swedish PM weeks after no-confidence vote

A man's temperature is taken in Mali to check against possible COVID-19 infection in this courtesy file photo.
UN chief: Global vaccine plan essential as COVID-19 death toll passes 4 million
GENEVA — The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need for the world to put a global vaccine plan in place to get the pandemic under control, said the UN chief in a statement.“Many of us know this loss directly and feel its pain”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “We mourn mothers and fathers who gave guidance, sons and daughters who inspired us, grandmothers and grandfathers who shared wisdom, colleagues and friends who lifted our lives.”He said that while vaccines “offer a ray of hope” most of the world lagged behind: “The virus is outpacing vaccine distribution. This pandemic is clearly far from over; more than half its victims died this year....
July 08, 2021

UN chief: Global vaccine plan essential as COVID-19 death toll passes 4 million

A man waits to be tested for Covid outside a hospital in Mumbai, India, in this file courtesy photo.
COVID-19 variants ‘winning race against vaccines,’ warns WHO chief as global deaths top 4 million
GENEVA — Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, putting the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution. During his biweekly conference in Geneva, he added that the global COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 4 million, making it a “tragic milestone” that “likely underestimates the overall toll” of the deadly virus. Tedros warned that far too many countries are seeing “sharp spikes in cases and hospitalization”, while rich nations with high inoculation rates, were dropping public health measures “as though the pandemic is already over.” A wave of death The situation is leading to an acute shortage of oxygen and...
July 07, 2021

COVID-19 variants ‘winning race against vaccines,’ warns WHO chief as global deaths top 4 million

The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan’s fight against new variants of COVID-19. — Courtesy file photo
UK offers genomic sequencing capacity and capability to Pakistan
Saudi Gazette reportLONDON — The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan’s fight against new variants of COVID-19.Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on UK expertise and support to detect quickly new, and potentially more dangerous, variants of COVID-19, the UK government said in a press release. The UK is a world leader in genomic sequencing for COVID-19 variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants.Through an agreement reached between UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakistan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the UK will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase genomic sequencing capacity in Pakistan....
July 07, 2021

UK offers genomic sequencing capacity and capability to Pakistan

Plastic is used extensively in agriculture as a soil mulch, as well as in polyhouse farming, which have become a major source of plastic contamination in soil. — courtesy H. Wang/Foshan University
IAEA, FAO launch R&D to identify sources, impacts of microplastic pollution in soil
VIENNA — The images of swaths of garbage floating on the oceans’ surface have become a rallying call to address plastic pollution, but there is more to this challenge than meets the eye.While plastics and microplastics — items smaller than 5 mm — accumulate and impact marine environments, much of the problem is rooted in land contamination.Land-based plastic pollution, which often feeds into the oceans, is estimated to be at least four times higher than what is in the oceans, according to a study published in Global Change Biology.To tackle this growing challenge, the IAEA is launching a coordinated research project to tackle land-based plastic contamination.“Soil is the main source of microplastics reaching oceans through soil erosion and surface runoff,” said Nanthi Bolan,...
July 07, 2021

IAEA, FAO launch R&D to identify sources, impacts of microplastic pollution in soil

In this videograb, Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience with a limited number of faithful in the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican.
Pope Francis 'reacted well' to intestinal surgery: Vatican
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis "reacted well" to intenstinal surgery on Sunday evening at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican said.He went into hospital for the planned operation just hours after cheerfully greeting the public in St. Peter’s Square, telling them he will go to Hungary and Slovakia in September.The Vatican didn't give further information on his condition.In a statement late on Sunday, a Holy See spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said the 84-year-old Francis had general anesthesia during the surgery necessitated by a narrowing of the large intestine.The written statement, which came shortly before midnight, was notable for its scarcity of medical detail. Bruni didn't say how long surgery lasted, nor for how long the pope was unconscious under anesthesia.Also not...
July 07, 2021

Pope Francis 'reacted well' to intestinal surgery: Vatican

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