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Ukraine war: Poor countries face food, energy, finance crises, UN chief says

UNITED NATIONS: Poor countries face economic ruin from simultaneous crises of food, energy and finance due to supply disruptions caused by Russia's invasion of...

WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024

The World Health Organization’s COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle-income countries against coronavirus.

World Bank sees ‘huge willingness’ to suspend debt payments for poorest countries

The World Bank is seeing “a huge willingness” on the part of official bilateral creditors to suspend debt payments by the world’s poorest countries

Weak systems and funding gaps jeopardize drinking-water in world’s poorest countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Water have sounded the alarm for an urgent increase in investment in strong drinking-water and sanitation systems

Cancer patients in poor countries needlessly denied pain relief: WHO

“Nobody, cancer patients or not cancer patients, should live or die in pain in the 21st century,” Dr Etienne Krug, director of WHO’s department of noncommunicable diseases, told a briefing.

‘Facebook is for everyone,’ Zuckerberg takes a swipe at Snapchat

SAN JOSE USA: Facebook does innovation to serve "everyone" in the community and not just the "high end," said founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

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