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Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres
growing hunger: Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss,…
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Care home combats loneliness for International Day of Friendship
The staff and residents at Harleston House, a Greensleeves Care home in Lowestoft, are demonstrating the ways in which they prevent loneliness within the home, in time for International Day…
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WHO/Europe releases report on mechanisms for improving transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and health products
Two years after World Health Assembly Resolution 72.8 was agreed on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products, WHO/Europe has released a report identifying and…
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Sierra Leone: Abolition of Death Penalty a Major Victory
Download logo Reacting to the news that Parliament voted on 23 July to abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira Daoud said:…
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Tajikistan completes second round of immunization campaign against circulating poliovirus
Over 1.2 million children in Tajikistan received oral polio vaccine in the second round of the supplemental immunization campaign completed on 5 July 2021. The immunization campaign was conducted in…
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St. Charles library again accepting book donations
The St. Charles Public Library is again accepting donations of books and other items at its new facility. With the library back at its original location at 1 S. Sixth…
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A light book about serious things
Book Review By Derryll White Scrimger, Richard (2016). Lucky Jonah. This is a Canadian novel with the main character, Jonah, 13 in Grade 8 in a small Ontario town. Jonah…
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Religious Sisters organise a Day of Prayer for eSwatini and South Africa. – Vatican News
Following the social unrest that engulfed South Africa and eSwatini recently, women religious leaders in Southern Africa organised an online Day of Prayer to intercede for their countries.
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Pope prays for victims of flooding in China and blesses Olympics – Vatican News
Pope Francis prays for the victims of flash floods in the city of Zhengzhou, capital of China's Henan Province. He also remembers the Olympic games that started on Friday in…
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10 years after independence, world’s newest nation has ‘little to celebrate,’ says South Sudan churches’ leader
South Sudan came into existence 10 years ago, but there is little to celebrate for the world's newest nation, Father James Oyet Latansio, general secretary of the South Sudan Council…