Despite the temptation to end the pandemic, some leading health experts say it would be better to keep up the pressure.
GENEVA (AN) – Everyone wants to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, perhaps none more so than the head of the World Health Organization, which first declared COVID-19 had become a global health emergency nearly three years ago.
"We need to move beyond this emergency situation sometime by the end of the year," WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Arete News.
Urgent early warning systems and urban heat protections are needed with extreme heat events becoming more frequent.
A new report from the U.N. weather agency shows Asia has been heating up nearly twice as fast as the global average.
Much of the financial angst this year was caused by the absence and impending withdrawal of the United States.
The head of the International Peace Institute praised the treaty negotiators for their 'amazing' critical problem-solving.
Despite blocking IAEA inspectors from tracking uranium enrichment, Tehran says diplomatic channels remain open.
Leaders pushed for better financial systems at only the fourth U.N. conference on development financing held since 2002.
Beyond official narratives and statistics are the complex realities and unexpected agency of displaced populations.
Urgent early warning systems and urban heat protections are needed with extreme heat events becoming more frequent.
