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WHO Countries Reach Landmark Agreement on Tackling Future Pandemics

This is Beirut, 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis. After more than three years of talks and one last marathon session, weary delegates at the World Health Organization's headquarters ...

Pandemic Treaty Talks Inch Towards Accord

This is Beirut, 15/04 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Countries hope more than three years of negotiations on battling future pandemics will finally end Tuesday, after reaching a preliminary agreement last week. It has been more than five years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, killing millions of people and devastating economies. Experts say an accord has become even more crucial with new health ...

Europe Markets Extend Losses After Tariff Rout

This is Beirut, 04/04 10:25 - Reading : less than a minute

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European equities opened in the red on Friday, extending losses after US President Donald Trump's tariff offensive sparked a global stock market rout. Paris shed 0.9 percent to 7,533.26 points, Frankfurt fell 0.7 percent to 21,566.33 and London also dropped 0.7 percent to 8,416.32. Trump's harsher-than-expected "Liberation Day" levies sent ...

Growing Up Masked: The Psychological Challenges of a Confined Childhood

David Sahyoun, 11/03 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted societies on an unprecedented scale, deeply altering ingrained customs and daily social interactions. Children, navigating crucial phases of their psychological and identity development, were confronted with a world of masked faces, limited social interactions and new anxieties. For infants, the human face is the ...

Elon Musk brands USAID as 'criminal organization' in growing row

This is Beirut, 02/02 21:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development on Sunday, calling it a "criminal organization" after Donald Trump moved to freeze the bulk of Washington's foreign assistance for three months. The Trump administration has since issued waivers for food and other humanitarian aid. But aid workers say uncertainty reigns -- and that ...

World Bank Sees Slow and Steady Global Growth

This is Beirut, 17/01 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Global growth should remain stable this year and next, but at recent historic lows, the World Bank said Thursday, expressing particular concern about growth in developing countries. Growth should hit 2.7 percent in 2025 and 2026, in line with the level reached last year, the World Bank announced in a new report, adding that inflation and interest ...

Chinese economic growth among slowest in decades

This is Beirut, 17/01 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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China posted one of its slowest rates of economic growth in decades Friday, as leaders nervously eye a potential trade standoff with incoming US president Donald Trump. Beijing has announced in recent months its most aggressive support measures in years in a bid to reignite an economy suffering on multiple fronts, including a prolonged property ...

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

This is Beirut, 08/01 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic? The World Health Organization, which was at the heart of the pandemic response, has been galvanising efforts to determine where the next threat might come from and to ensure the planet is ready to face it. But while the ...

London Wall Illuminates Covid's Enduring Pain at Christmas

This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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UK families of some 240,000 people who died from Covid-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger and pain ahead of another Christmas overshadowed by loss. As the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic approaches, emotions still run raw across the UK amid lingering accusations that the then government responded too ...

Global Public Debt to Exceed $100tn Says IMF

This is Beirut, 2024-10-15 12:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Global public debt is expected to reach a record $100 trillion this year, the IMF said Tuesday, warning that the fiscal outlook for many countries may be even "worse than expected." In its latest report on fiscal policy, the International Monetary Fund said it expects global public debt to hit 93 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) ...

The Hour of Epidemics Has Struck

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-09-01 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Between environmental disasters and geopolitical crises, the proliferation of epidemics is emerging as an inevitable consequence of the erosion of ecological balances. The 21st century will be dominated by epidemics. This is neither superstition nor a conspiracy theory. The planet is in distress. The great ecological balances that have sustained ...

Mpox: An International Emergency, but (Still) Not a Pandemic

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-08-23 12:47 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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In response to the resurgence of mpox, the World Health Organization has declared, for the second time in two years, a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern." However, this viral disease is far from being the "new COVID-19." In 2022, as SARS-CoV-2 was mutating into less virulent strains, monkeypox (mpox) infections were gradually ...

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