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POLL-Biden lead over Trump grows in Michigan; race is statistically even in North Carolina -Reuters/Ipsos | Politics
45% said Biden would be better. NOTES The Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls are conducted online in all six states in English, as well as in Spanish in Arizona and Florida. * In Michigan, from Oct. 21 to Oct. 27, it gathered responses from 1,005 adults,...
Dolores Cacuango: Google doodle on Ecuador’s indigenous rights activist on 139th birthday | Other
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Africa continues to call for economic stimulus to mitigate effects of COVID-19 | Headlines
The President made these remarks during the World Bank high-level event on Human Capital in the time of COVID-19 on Thursday.
Advocates for transforming global food systems named ahead of UN Food Systems Summit | International
Youth, women and indigenous peoples’ leaders are among those to join a network of Food Systems Champions, who will drive forward progress towards the UN Food Systems Summit.
INTERVIEW-After battling TB and COVID-19, a S. African doctor reaches breaking point | Health
By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG, Sept 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zolelwa Sifumba described the daily injection she got to treat tuberculosis as feeling like hot lava being pumped slowly into her body, leaving the young South African doctor...
Ramaphosa calls to provide women enabling tools to make them financially secure | Headlines
President Ramaphosa was speaking during a high-level virtual panel, G7 Partnership for African Women's Financial Inclusion on Wednesday.
Trump pick for Latam bank poised for win after regional opposition fades | Politics
Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump's fiery senior Latin America adviser, has majority support to head the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), but a group of countries, including Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Costa Rica, had appeared close to having the...
Governments need to hasten process of finding tools to combat COVID-19: Ramaphosa | Headlines
ACT-A, said the President, is “a ground-breaking and innovating mechanism, a product of an unprecedented and ongoing collaboration”.
WHO panel on response to COVID-19 pandemic to begin work Tuesday: Tedross | International
The World Health Organization (WHO) review committee established to assess the performance of its International Health Regulations during the global coronavirus pandemic will begin its work on Tuesday, the health body's director-general, Tedros...
Cuomo relays U.S. governors' demand for federal COVID-19 aid in upcoming relief package
Hogan said the group successfully pushed the Trump administration to invoke the Defense Production Act to assist in the country's COVID-19 response, after releasing a joint memo in April.
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Study finds women need professional emotional support during high-risk pregnancies | Health
While there is very little information about how women manage emotional distress during high-risk pregnancies, researchers learned that without psychosocial support, women struggle with fears and tears while feeling isolated and worried.
COVID-19 impacts could have effect on antiretroviral therapy supply: UNAIDS study
A new analysis by UNAIDS has revealed the potential impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic could have in low- and middle-income countries around the world on supplies of the generic antiretroviral medicines used to treat HIV.
Mayors of central European capitals call for tougher EU climate goals
"However, these recovery measures must not lose sight of the escalating climate crisis, a challenge even greater than the coronavirus." Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski is a member of Poland's biggest opposition party, and its candidate for the...
WHO set to resume hydroxychloroquine trial in battle on COVID-19
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Lancet study is not randomised clinical trial, only analysis of hospital registers worldwide: CSIR on WHO suspending HCQ drug testing
Dismissing the reports of health risks from Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as per simmering reports cited by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Shekher Mande, Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, said on...
Blasphemy victim Asia Bibi's brother-in-law killed in Pakistan's Sheikhupura
Younus, the brother-in-law of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, was killed in Sheikhupura city of Punjab province in Pakistan on Monday.
UN trial for virus therapies pauses testing on Trump's drug
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Pakistan needs a new approach to move forward as a democracy: ex-envoy Haqqani
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Fintech post-COVID 19: Spelling the end for mediocre startups
Fintech is the future and a global recession will drive an impetus for change but not all startups have what it takes to survive the occasional turmoil that tends to be inherent to the financial industry.
CSIR-NCL Pune's new innovations can help in mitigation of Corona outbreak
CSIR’s constituent Lab, CSIR-NCL Pune, has been leading the way in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship through its Venture Centre for the past decade and new innovations from there are helping in the fight against the Corona outbreak.