An international treaty against match-fixing in sports competitions took force, marking what proponents called significant progress against corruption.
GENEVA (AN) — An international treaty against match-fixing in sports competitions took force on Sunday, marking what proponents called significant progress in the fight against rigged gambling, bribery and other rampant corruption.
The Macolin Convention, formally called the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, has been signed by dozens of nations but required at least five members of the Council of Europe, or COE, to ratify it before it could take effect.
The 46-nation council reaffirmed support for Ukraine and initiated a register to account for damages by former member Russia so human rights victims can be compensated.
The Turkish president withdrew his nation from Europe's first legally binding treaty on preventing violence against women and removed the central bank chief.
The world reached two tragic milestones on Sunday — 10 million COVID-19 cases and 500,000 deaths — with 1 million infections added in the past six days.
Kosovo's president, Hashim Thaçi, and nine other former separatists were indicted on war crimes charges, three days before talks in the U.S. with Serbia.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden each took the stage at the U.N. General Assembly to emphasize there are global stakes in the outcome of the war.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
