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The World Health Organization has supported India and South Africa’s proposal to the World Trade Organization to relax intellectual property agreements that might pose a challenge to gain access to Covid-19 vaccine, once it is available. As per reports, relaxing the provisions pertaining to intellectual property rights could not only speed up the vaccine development process but would also allow poorer and developing countries to gain access to it. "As new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for Covid-19 are developed, there are significant concerns how these will be made available promptly in sufficient quantities and at an affordable price to meet global demand,” the two countries said in their appeal. As per reports, the joint submission to the Council for Trade-Related A...

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region took another turn on Sunday, with the two countries accusing each other of violating the latest cease-fire just minutes after it took effect. The tiny region in the South Caucasus has been the site of hundreds of military and civilian deaths, significant property destruction and inflamed tensions since violence broke out between the two countries in late September, intensifying a decades-long conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but governed by ethnic Armenians as a de facto independent state.buy feldene generic bloinfobuy.com/feldene.html over the counter A humanitarian cease-fire, brokered by Russia, initially took effect on Oct. 10 and was met almost imme...

Protests turned violent in Chile after thousands took to the streets of Santiago to mark one year since mass demonstrations that left 30 dead and thousands injured. Thousands took to the streets to mark one year since mass student protests demanded reforms (Image Credits : Sky News) Police engaged in a tense stand-off with protesters, using tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds in the capital on Sunday. The protesters were marking one year since mass demonstrations that demanded widespread reforms of the pension, healthcare and education systems. A burning church spire falls to the ground after being set on fire in the Chilean capital (Image credit : Sky news) A church was also seen on fire as protesters threw rocks and fireballs at officers in riot gear. The marches...

Samuel Paty, a history teacher from France was beheaded after he reportedly showed cartoons of Prophet Muhammad during a civics lesson, crowds gathered throughout France on Sunday to pay tribute to the 47 - year - old . Thousands convened in Paris' Place de la République, with the sounds of applause, the French national anthem and a solemn minute of silence as Rallies formed in cities including Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Marseille and Bordeaux. Attendees at demonstrations across the country carried signs reading "I am Samuel" and "I am a teacher," according to BBC. France is reeling from the killing, which took place in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday. According to police, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee attacked Paty near the school and cu...

A major controversy has erupted after Twitter India showed Jammu Kashmir as part of Peoples Republic of China in the timelines. The matter was raised Kanchan Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) after tweets showed J&K as a part of China. “So @Twitter has decided to reconfigure geography and declare Jammu & Kashmir as part of People’s Republic of #China . If this is not a violation of #India laws, what is? Citizens of India have been punished for far less. But US Big Tech is above the law?”, Gupta wrote tagging Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Several netizens also asked Prasad and the government to take action against Twitter India. Several netizens also asked Prasad and the government to take action against Twitter India. “No ...

France is again in news for gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb, The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an "Islamist terrorist attack" and urged the nation to stand united against extremism. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his class, authorities said. The French anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation for murder with a suspected terrorist motive. Four people, one a minor, were detained hours later, the office of anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said without elaborating. Police typically fan out to find family and friends of potential suspects in terror cases. Macron visited the school where the teacher worke...

U.S. President Donald Trump sought to boost his standing in the battleground state of Florida on Friday by reaching out to seniors, while rival Joe Biden blasted Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on a tour of the swing state of Michigan. The two men are focusing their campaigns on the closely-fought states that are expected to determine the winner of the Nov. 3 election. After spending the day in Florida, Trump held a rally in Georgia, traditionally a Republican stronghold. Early voting is shattering records, with more than 23 million Americans having already cast ballots. Trump, a Republican, lags in opinion polls and the latest figures from his campaign show he is also behind in fundraising as the race intensifies with 18 days to go before Election Day. Trump and the...

On Saturday, 12 civilians (including children) were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the city of Ganja due to shelling by Armenia. The Azeri Prosecutor General's office said that two shells hit apartment buildings in the country's second largest city. There has been no official reaction from Armenia as yet. All negotiations are off as Azerbaijan did not negotiate with Armenia.

On Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry issued a provocative statement about the Indian territories saying that the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and the state of Arunachal Pradesh are parts of China.  Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava (MEA) replied, "The union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been, are, and would remain an integral part of India. China has no locus standi to comment on India's internal matter." He further added Arunachal Pradesh is also an "integral and inalienable" part of India.  "We hope that countries will not comment on India's internal matters, as much as they expect the same of others," Srivastava said. "Our position on Arunachal Pradesh has been made clear several times. Arunachal Pradesh is an integral and ...

A trial by WHO with four drugs including the antiviral Remedisivir in the treatment of COVID-19 has found that the repurposed medicines have little or no effect on the duration of time the patients spend in hospital or their survival. The researchers wrote in a preprint on the findings of the WHO’s Solidarity trial that was released on medRxiv, "These Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir and Interferon regimens appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalized COVID-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation and duration of hospital stay". The results have yet to be peer reviewed. The randomised trial of the drugs took place in 405 hospitals across 30 countries and involved 11,266 patients. Some 2,750 people were allocated remdesivir, 954 hydroxychlor...