Europe

Covid-19: WHO warns of Covid medical waste threat

    GENEVA, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that the vast amount of waste produced in…

Covid-19: Paris 2024 boss to miss Beijing Games after testing positive

Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet attended Tokyo 2020 but will not be at Beijing 2022 after testing positive for Covid-19…

Kenya, Portugal pledge deeper ties to improve health sectors

NAIROBI, Feb 1 (NNN-KBC) — Kenya and Portugal have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen collaboration in the health sector in…

Kenya deports two fugitives wanted in UK for murder

NAIROBI, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two murder fugitives who were arrested by Kenyan detectives last Wednesday have been extradited to…

US urges direct nuclear talks with Iran, says time running out

 WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A senior US official said that time was running out for nuclear negotiations with Iran…

UN Myanmar investigators probing post-coup ‘crimes against humanity’

 GENEVA, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN investigators said that more than a thousand people may have been killed in crimes…

Covid-19: UK’s PM ‘sorry’ for ‘partygate’ findings, vows to stay on

 LONDON, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday apologised in parliament for a series of lockdown-breaching…

Covid-19: England plans to revoke mandatory jabs for health workers

NHS staff protest against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine rules, at Trafalgar Square, London LONDON, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The…

Russia, US clash at UN over Russian troop build-up near Ukraine

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) –: Tensions between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s troop build-up near Ukraine spilled into the United…

Covid-19: Denmark from Tuesday returns to ‘life as we knew it’ despite Omicron

People at a cafe in Roskilde, Denmark COPENHAGEN, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Denmark on Tuesday will become the first European Union…