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GENEVA — Severe malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, is one of the top threats to child survival, yet perhaps one of the least known or understood, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting.Triggered by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of disease — such as diarrhea, measles and malaria — it compromises a child’s immunity.“Young children who have gone without food, rapidly drop a lot of bodyweight, often exacerbated by bouts of infectious diarrhea, until they become so thin and frail, they look skeletal,” UNICEF chief Catherine Russell explained in the report’s...
May 17, 2022
Severe malnutrition or wasting, ‘excruciatingly painful’ threat to child survival
May 17, 2022
EU hits back after UK moves to change post-Brexit trade rules
May 17, 2022
Belgian appeals court rules out extradition for Spanish rapper Valtònyc
May 17, 2022
Turkey threatens to block Finland and Sweden Nato bids
May 17, 2022
Hundreds of besieged Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from Mariupol
BELGRADE — Serbia's capital was targeted by a slew of bomb threats on Monday, police have said.Threats were made against schools, bridges, shopping centers, restaurants, the city zoo and a football match, bringing Belgrade rush-hour traffic to a standstill.Police said in a statement that no explosive devices were found after more than 90 different searches and it was not immediately clear who was behind the purported emailed threats.Nearly 100 primary schools were evacuated after the threats, as well as several restaurants, including a McDonald’s outlet and shopping malls, the zoo, the city airport, railway stations and the water supply company.The Russian embassy was also targeted by a bomb threat, the local media are reporting.A top division football game was also postponed as...
May 17, 2022
Serbian capital Belgrade paralyzed by bomb threats
PARIS — Centrist politician Elisabeth Borne was appointed France’s new prime minister on Monday to become the second woman to hold the post in the country.Borne, 61, who was labor minister in the previous government, succeeds Jean Castex, who resigned earlier in the day."Ecology, health, education, full employment, democratic revival, Europe and security: together, with the new government, we will continue to act tirelessly for the French people," French President Emmanuel Macron stated on Twitter shortly after Borne's appointment.Macron and Borne are expected to appoint the full government in the coming days.Borne spoke soon after her appointment, noting the emotions she felt at being selected for the highest office a woman has ever held in French political...
May 17, 2022
Elisabeth Borne appointed as new French PM
May 16, 2022
WHO ‘concerned’ over COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea, reiterates full support
May 16, 2022
Support for Ukraine war crimes investigations ‘of paramount importance’
May 16, 2022
Minimal risk of monkeypox transmission in UK following confirmed case
