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Saudi Arabia and Singapore have agreed to upgrade relations to a Strategic Partnership, which would deepen and expand mutually beneficial cooperation across all fields. A joint statement was issued after the visit of Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong to Saudi Arabia. The Prime Minister lauded the Saudi efforts in serving the pilgrims and visitors of the Two Holy Mosques who come to perform Hajj and Umrah, praising the high level of coordination between the two countries.

A state-level workshop was jointly organized by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and the State Tobacco Control Cell, Assam, recently.

Russia claims it lost the opportunity to monitor and address cases of alleged rights violations of national minorities abroad, "primarily of the Russian-speaking population." The Kremlin used false accusations of abuse and discrimination against Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine to start armed aggression against its neighbor in 2014.

The Secretariat of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians, administered by the United Nations

The world’s 20 biggest pharmaceutical companies handed nearly as much money to shareholders and executives as they claim to have spent on developing new vaccines and medicines during the pandemic, says the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — The Malaysian Health Coalition (MHC) expressed its disappointment with the unity government after it postponed the Second Reading of the Control of Tobacco...

The declaration, concluded on the sidelines of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention held in Belgrade recently, marks an important milestone for cooperation aiming to spearhead new joint initiatives for the sustainable industrial development of the Carpathian region. | World News

South Africa has failed to address the root causes of problematic drinking, such as the availability of cheap alcohol and weak regulations.

France’s Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment has concluded that a drastic change in approach is required to get cigarette smokers to stop smoking, A report prepared by members of both chambers of the French Parliament recommends a risk reduction approach that offers smokers the chance to switch to much less harmful electronic cigarettes, […]

Health experts believe that providing smokers less harmful alternatives will be more effective in reducing smoking than the World Health Organizations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations prohibiting them while cigarettes remain available.