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January 31, 2023
Joe Biden rules out sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
KYIV — In an interview with UN News, Gennady Trukhanov, the Mayor of Odesa, describes the inclusion of the historic city center and port in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a great victory, which will help in the protection of the Odesa’s cultural treasures.Trukhanov spoke to UN News shortly after the decision was announced, on Wednesday, and explained the laborious process that led to the inclusion.Gennady Trukhanov: We applied for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List back in 2009 and were accepted into the provisional list. But the procedure dragged on and, with the onset of the war, there was a real threat that our architectural monuments would be destroyed.So, in the first month of the invasion by Russian troops, I turned to our Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs, in...
January 30, 2023
‘A great victory’: Odesa mayor reacts to UNESCO Heritage List inclusion
GENEVA — On Jan. 30 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 — the infectious disease which was spreading like wildfire around the world, killing thousands and, later, millions — was a public health emergency of international concern.Now exactly three years later, despite a drop in mortality linked to coronavirus cases, especially in the Western world, the agency has decided to maintain the same high alert on the disease, declaring it remains a global health emergency.On Monday, the agency said that though the pandemic was likely at a “transition point,” we still need careful management to “mitigate the potential negative consequences”.While cases have dropped in countries where a majority of the population has been vaccinated and the world “is in a...
January 30, 2023
WHO to keep highest alert over COVID as ‘public health emergency of international concern’
January 30, 2023
Kremlin responds to former British PM’s missile claims, calls it a lie
January 30, 2023
Estonia calls up reservists to participate in military drills
January 30, 2023
Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike
January 30, 2023
Erdogan says Turkey may accept Finland in NATO, but block Sweden
January 30, 2023
Russian athletes cannot be allowed at Olympics, Zelensky says
January 29, 2023
German chancellor says he won’t send fighter jets to Ukraine
January 29, 2023
Twitter sued over antisemitic posts left online
