14/01/2020
By Neil Clark*
13 Jan. 2020 (RT)* — Iran is thousands of miles away from Britain, yet because the power elites support them, anti-government protests in Tehran receive much wider coverage in the UK than the ones in France, just across the Channel.
How many British people have ever visited Iran? How many have lived there or have second homes there?
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14/01/2020
13 January 2020 (World Meteorological Organization)* — The tenth anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake has been marked with ceremonies and renewed commitment to building a better future for the impoverished nation.
“We remember the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their lives and the millions gravely affected by the devastating earthquake that struck their country ten years ago,” Mr. Guterres said in a video statement.
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14/01/2020
13 January 2020 (UN News)* — It is “essential” for China to continue investigating the source of a previously unknown strain of coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Monday [13 January 2020], following confirmation that an infected patient is being treated in Thailand.
US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | The MERS coronavirus, digitally imaged.
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In its statement,
WHO identified the patient as a traveller from Wuhan, in China, who was hospitalized in Thailand on 8 January. According to Thai authorities, the patient is recovering from the illness.
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14/01/2020
The head of the UN health agency, WHO, has set out his urgent global health challenges for the next ten years – designated the “Decade of Action” by the UN General Assembly” – and underscored the importance of investing in public health, in a statement released on Monday [13 January 2020] (*).
© UNICEF/Saleh Bahless | A health worker administers a vaccination against cholera on a young boy in Yemen.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote that the list of challenges is a response to concern that leaders are not committing sufficient resources to health, and are putting “lives, livelihoods and economies in jeopardy”.
Comparing health concerns with peace and security, Mr Ghebreyesus pointed out that many countries are willing to invest in protection against terrorist attacks, but not to allocate money to halting the spread of a virus, even though a pandemic may be far more deadly, and more economically damaging.
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