WHO Chief Says Vaccine Alone Will Not End the Pandemic

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–10/2020–10–05T165328Z_708453458_RC2GCJ9H3EER_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-WHO.JPG?imwidth=800 World Health Orga­ni­za­tion Direc­tor Gen­er­al Tedros Adhanom Ghe­breye­sus said Mon­day a work­ing vac­cine alone will not end the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, and com­mu­ni­ties and indi­vid­u­als must still be engaged. The com­ments come as U.S. phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny Mod­er­na announced that its

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WHO Head ‘Extremely Concerned’ by Increase in Coronavirus Cases

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–10/2020–10–05T165328Z_708453458_RC2GCJ9H3EER_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-WHO.JPG?imwidth=800The head of the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion says the agency is “extreme­ly con­cerned” by a surge of coro­n­avirus cas­es, par­tic­u­lar­i­ty in Europe and North Amer­i­ca. Tedros Adhanom Ghe­breye­sus told reporters Mon­day at a reg­u­lar brief­ing in Gene­va that the case

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Ethiopian troops ‘liberate’ key town in Tigray, claim officials — The Guardian

Ethiopi­an troops have advanced fur­ther into the north­ern region of Tigray, seiz­ing a key town on the road to its cap­i­tal, offi­cials in Addis Aba­ba have said. The con­flict between nation­al forces and troops loy­al to the Tigray People’s Lib­er­a­tion Front (TPLF) is head­ing towards the end of its sec­ond week. There are wide­spread fears the war…

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Top Syria Diplomat Moalem, Soft-Spoken Defender of Assad, Dies 

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–11/reuters_syria_Walid al-Moalem_13Apr17.JPG?imwidth=800AMMAN, JORDAN — Syr­i­a’s long-time for­eign min­is­ter Walid al-Moalem, an unyield­ing defend­er of Syr­i­an Pres­i­dent Bashar al Assad’s bloody crack­down on peace­ful pro­test­ers that sparked a decade old con­flict, died on Mon­day. The gov­ern­ment gave no details of the cause

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Ghanaians Remember ‘Complex’ Former President Jerry Rawlings 

https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/2446332/sp/244633200/playManifest/entryId/1_v3gio9mg/format/download/protocol/https/flavorParamIds/0ACCRA — The death of Ghana’s for­mer pres­i­dent Jer­ry John Rawl­ings at age 73 on Thurs­day in Accra, sparked mixed reac­tions across the nation.  Some were sad­dened by Rawl­ings death while oth­ers spoke of human rights abus­es under his rule.  Jer­ry John

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