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‘Shared blueprint for peace’: Development goals deliver for billions, but challenges remain
The findings come from the 2026 SDG Progress Report, released on Tuesday, which calls the goals “a shared blueprint…
England blew away India at Trent Bridge on Tuesday to inflict a record T20 defeat on the world champions and take a 2-0 lead in the series with two matches to play.Josh Tongue took 4-28 and Jofra Archer 3-29 as England’s pace attack powered them to a commanding 125-run victory.India, who came into the series off the back of a 2-0 series defeat to Ireland, were bowled out for just 76 in the third T20.The trouble started when Abhishek Sharma was caught for 10 at deep point by Phil Salt off Tongue.Then 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who hit two sixes in a five-ball 13, gloved Archer to Jos Buttler who took four catches and a stumping.India needed Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer to steady the ship but they departed in successive balls to catches from Jacob Bethell.Archer had the promoted Axar Patel caught behind with the final ball of the fifth over and India were reduced to the rubble of 52-5.There was no way back.England had built their total of 201-7 around an innings of 70 from Phil Salt. He played out a maiden from Arshdeep Singh in the first over of the innings before accelerating with three sixes in his 44-ball stay.Prince Yadav impressed in just his third T20 international with 2-30 including the wicket of Buttler for 36 with a beautiful inswinging yorker with his first ball. Harshit Rana removed Bethell and Tom Banton with successive deliveries but Sam Curran’s unbeaten 41 from 24 balls took England to a competitive total. BRIEF SCORESEngland 201 for 7 (Salt 70, Curran 41*, Prince 2-32) beat India 76 (Tongue 4-28, Archer 3-29) by 125 runs Source link
The deadly Ebola outbreak raging in central Africa probably began several months ago, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, deeming the risk high in the region but low worldwide. “Given the scale, we are thinking that it has started probably a couple of months ago,” Anais Legand, WHO technical officer on viral haemorrhagic fevers, told reporters in Geneva. Ebola has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half-century, and the UN health agency declared the latest surge an international health emergency.The 17th Ebola outbreak to hit the DRC is already suspected of having caused 139 deaths from around 600 probable cases. “We expect those numbers to keep increasing, given the amount of time the virus was circulating before the outbreak was detected,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. The WHO has highlighted the complexity of detecting and responding to the outbreak, which has been spreading in hard-to-reach areas of the DRC’s conflict-torn Ituri province. Complicating things further, the less common Bundibugyo species behind the outbreak does not show up on tests for the more common Zaire strain of Ebola. On Sunday, Tedros declared the outbreak a so-called public health emergency of international concern — the second-highest level of alarm under the legally-binding International Health Regulations (IHR), which triggers emergency responses in countries worldwide.“There are several factors that warrant serious concern about the potential for further spread and further deaths,” he said, adding he “determined that the situation was not a pandemic emergency,” saying the agency “assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels. (AFP) Source link
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Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi affirmed, during talks with UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Yvette Cooper, that the signing of the Joint Statement concluding the negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the GCC and the United Kingdom (UK) marks a new phase in the GCC-UK relations.During the discussions, the two sides reviewed GCC-UK bilateral relations and exchanged views on the latest regional developments. They also stressed the importance of intensifying international and regional efforts to enhance security and stability. Source link
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution supporting strong action to combat climate change, despite US diplomatic efforts to to have the measure withdrawn.The General Assembly, comprised of 193 member states, adopted a non-binding resolution endorsing the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice last July, which stated that countries’ failure to protect the planet from the effects of climate change constitutes a violation of international law.In a statement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “this is a powerful affirmation of international law, climate justice, science, and the responsibility of states to protect people from the escalating climate crisis.”Over 140 countries voted in favor, 8 against, and 28 abstained.The United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, along with other countries, opposed the resolution. Climate change is primarily caused by emissions from burning coal, oil, and gas.The resolution calls on countries to adopt national climate plans aimed at limiting global temperature rise to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius, to phase out subsidies for the exploration, production, and exploitation of fossil fuels, and to urge countries responsible for climate damage to provide compensation.The resolution is part of international efforts to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which set a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius on global warming compared to pre-industrial levels.The initial draft of the resolution included more stringent provisions based on an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, including a call for the establishment of an international register of climate damage. However, these provisions were removed during consultations prior to the vote in order to broaden support for the resolution. Source link
