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Still time to reverse damage to ‘ravaged’ ecosystems, declares UN chief, marking Environment Day 
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Still time to reverse damage to ‘ravaged’ ecosystems, declares UN chief, marking Environment Day 

Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on the eve of World Environment…

4 June 2021 · 4 min read

UN health agency urges nations to donate 250 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
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UN health agency urges nations to donate 250 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to…

4 June 2021 · 4 min read

Team Qhubeka ASSOS motivated for Tour de Suisse
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Team Qhubeka ASSOS motivated for Tour de Suisse

Team Qhubeka ASSOS (www.TeamQhubeka.com) will take to the start of the Tour de Suisse, motivated to race well on the home roads of ASSOS of Switzerland, BMC Switzerland and On…

4 June 2021 · 4 min read

Insights: Five Days in May
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Insights: Five Days in May

Three stage victories in just five days at the 2021 Giro d’Italia proved to be the most successful in our team’s history at the race. In this piece we take…

4 June 2021 · 15 min read

International Women’s Judo Champions Join Virtual Panel to Celebrating Launch of Rusty Kanokogi’s Memoir, Get Up & Fight
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International Women’s Judo Champions Join Virtual Panel to Celebrating Launch of Rusty Kanokogi’s Memoir, Get Up & Fight

Get Up & Fight Cover Illustration by Robyn Makinson Mother of Women’s Judo Posthumously Tells Her Judo-Life Story in New Memoir with Celebratory Launch Event Saturday June 5th, 12–2 EDT…

4 June 2021 · 6 min read

Beer brewing starts again in Belgian abbey after 200 years
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Beer brewing starts again in Belgian abbey after 200 years

Brewers are producing beer for the first time in 200 years at a historic Catholic abbey in Belgium.

3 June 2021 · 3 min read

SBE United Launches Plan for a Better Normal
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SBE United Launches Plan for a Better Normal

Steve Anderson Small Business is Essential United Edward Henry SBE United Canada USA Logo Many businesses could have avoided closing during the pandemic with a bilateral approach for operating safely.…

3 June 2021 · 6 min read

Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa's health facilities
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Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa’s health facilities

Critical health facilities across Africa risk being overwhelmed by surging COVID-19 infections, the UN health agency said on Thursday.

3 June 2021 · 3 min read

ESMA sees a prolonged period of risk from market corrections
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ESMA sees a prolonged period of risk from market corrections

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today published its first Risk Dashboard (RD) for 2021 covering the first quarter of the year. The…

3 June 2021 · 2 min read

Margaret Wambui: Kenyan Olympic medallist requires third class in athletics
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Margaret Wambui: Kenyan Olympic medallist requires third class in athletics

Kenya’s Margaret Wambui won bronze over 800m at the 2016 Olympics in Rio World Athletics should introduce a third category of events in order to allow competitors with high testosterone…

3 June 2021 · 2 min read