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The World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm about setbacks in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases. The annual number of new syphilis infections rose from around 7.1 million in 2020 to 8 million in 2022, the UN organization reported in Geneva on Tuesday. The largest increases were recorded on the American continent and in Africa. A total of 230,000 people died from the bacterial disease in 2022. "The rising incidence of syphilis raises major concerns," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. According to his organization's report, a total of more than 1 m...
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling for better protection for radioactive material while it is being transported. Last year, 31 countries reported a total of 168 cases in which radioactive materials were stolen, lost or otherwise fell into the wrong hands. The figures were published by the IAEA on Monday at the start of a nuclear safety conference in Vienna, and are in line with the long-term average. There have been more than 4,200 such incidents in total since records began in 1993. The IAEA, which serves as the UN's nuclear watchdog, says more than half of all thefts of...
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New classification rules for disabled athletes have been agreed at an extraordinary meeting of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The online vote saw 98% of delegates agree to the changes, which are aimed at better standardization across sports and for individual events. Verification of underlying health conditions and assessments of minimum impairment criteria form part of the new code. Additionally, a new international standard has been produced for detecting, investigating, and proceeding with cases of intentional misrepresentation. "This version of the code delivers the highest ...
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Heatwaves over the four hottest months of the year lead to more than 150,000 deaths around the world each year, research released on Wednesday has revealed. Between 1990 and 2019, heatwave-related excess deaths accounted for 153,078 deaths per year, a total of 236 deaths per ten million residents or 1% of global deaths, according to a study by Monash University in Australia. Researchers examined daily deaths and temperatures from 750 locations across 43 countries as part of the study. They found while Asia had the highest number of estimated deaths, Europe had the highest population-adjusted r...
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Exporters are predicting rising turnover for 2024, despite risks related to geopolitics and protectionism, German insurer Allianz Trade reported in Hamburg on Tuesday. Based on a survey of 3,200 companies in China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, 82% of companies said they expected business turnover generated through exports to increase, the insurer said. The figure for Germany was 81%. The figures are well up on 2023, when 54% of German and 70% of all companies surveyed predicted a rise, which did not in fact materialize as the year ended with ...
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Wildlife trafficking has not substantially reduced over the past two decades, despite positive signs in reducing trafficking of iconic species like elephant and rhino, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported in Vienna on Monday. "The global scope and scale of wildlife crime remain substantial with seizures during 2015–2021 indicating an illegal trade in 162 countries and territories affecting around 4,000 plant and animal species," the office's third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report says. During the six-year period, around 13 million individual animals and plants had been s...
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A group of African countries on Monday called for a planned international treaty on protecting genetic resources and traditional knowledge to provide for sanctions on companies or countries that infringe its provisions. "Our group supports adequate sanctions to ensure the treaty is enforced," the Kenyan representative said in Geneva, speaking on behalf of group. The concluding round for a new United Nations treaty has begun in the Swiss city after more than 20 years of talks. The aim is to conclude the treaty by May 24. The new treaty aims to prevent what is termed "biopiracy" – the theft of g...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have failed to achieve a breakthrough on a long-sought pandemic preparedness treaty. The latest round of negotiations began nearly two weeks ago in Geneva and were described as the UN health agency's final push to forge an agreement on a draft text. The next steps are unclear. The goal was to have the so-called "pandemic treaty" adopted at this year's World Health Assembly, which is the WHO's supreme decision-making body. The meeting is due to be held starting at the end of May. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members ca...
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April 2024 was the 11th month in a row with record-breaking global temperatures, EU scientists said. It was also the first recorded April with a global average temperature of over 15 degrees Celsius, according to data from the EU climate change service Copernicus. According to Copernicus boss Carlo Buontempo, the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases "will keep pushing the global temperature towards new records." The air temperature at the surface averaged 15.03 degrees Celsius in April, 0.67 degrees Celsius higher than the April average for the years 1991 to 2020, the service said on W...
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Renewable sources of energy now account for over 30% of the world's electricity generation, according to a report published by a think tank on Wednesday. "Growth in solar and wind pushed the world past 30% renewableelectricity for the first time in 2023," said a press release by Ember, an energy think tank. According to Ember's report, the share of energy produced using renewable sources grew from 19% in 2000 to over 30% in 2023. All of that growth was down to increased use of wind and solar power. The share of hydroelectric generation and other renewables in total energy production declined d...
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