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Unless COVID is suppressed everywhere, we’ll be ‘back at square one’, Tedros warns

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Health

Unless COVID is suppressed everywhere, we’ll be ‘back at square one’, Tedros warns

The number of people who have received a COVID-19 vaccination now exceeds those reportedly infected, the head of the UN’s health agency said on Friday, while warning that after inoculating…

5 February 2021 · 2 min read

Environment

Carbon levy on EU imports needed to raise global climate ambition

To raise global climate ambition and prevent ‘carbon leakage’, the EU must place a carbon price on imports from less climate-ambitious countries, say Environment MEPs.Committee on the Environment, Public Health…

5 February 2021 · 3 min read

Israeli-born Margaret Karram elected president of Focolare movement

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America

Israeli-born Margaret Karram elected president of Focolare movement

The international Focolare Movement that promotes unity and universal kinship has a new president for the next six years -- Margaret Karram -- an Arab Catholic, born 1962 in Haifa,…

4 February 2021 · 4 min read

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News

Holy See: “Effective action” needed to fight poverty in Covid-hit developing nations – Vatican News

Leaving “no one behind” in the present Covid-19 pandemic “depends on the willingness of States to act in solidarity and fraternity in building the common good,” according to the Holy…

4 February 2021 · 3 min read

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Europe

Covid-19 recovery: how the main EU instrument will work | News | European Parliament

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4 February 2021 · 1 min read

‘Make peace with nature’, UN chief urges at Ocean Decade launch

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News

‘Make peace with nature’, UN chief urges at Ocean Decade launch

January marked the beginning of what many within the UN and beyond view as “the most critical decade of our lives”, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said…

3 February 2021 · 3 min read

Europe

EU-UK deal: next steps in Parliament’s scrutiny

The Foreign Affairs and International Trade committees will be assessing the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on Thursday.Committee on Foreign AffairsCommittee on International Trade Source : © European Union, 2021…

3 February 2021 · 1 min read

Beating cancer: MEPs react to the EU Plan for joint action

Europe's Beating cancer - Diagnosis and treatment - Visit of ICANS, the Cancer Institute of Strasbourg Europe

Environment

Beating cancer: MEPs react to the EU Plan for joint action

On the eve of World Cancer Day, Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) backs EU wide effort to beat cancer.Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetySpecial Committee…

3 February 2021 · 2 min read

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Europe

How the EU wants to achieve a circular economy by 2050

Find out about the EU’s circular economy action plan and what additional measures MEPs want to reduce waste and make products more sustainable. If we keep on exploiting resources as…

3 February 2021 · 4 min read

International community must act after Myanmar coup, say Christian leaders

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Christianity

International community must act after Myanmar coup, say Christian leaders

Christians from different traditions are looking to the international community to take action after a military coup in Myanmar - also called Burma where politicians, journalists and human rights activists…

2 February 2021 · 4 min read