Washington: World leaders must make a new commitment to a more equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines to bring the pandemic under control, the heads of four major global organisations said on.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ravenous pests are on the march to colder regions as climate change lures crop eaters to new territories, threatening jobs and exacerbating world hunger, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
From fall armyworms to desert locusts, the pests mostly menace crops in hot countries but the rise in world temperatures was now fanning their expansion, the U.N. said, with all the risks that entails for farmers and their families.
“The impact of climate change is one of the greatest challenges the plant health community is facing,” Qu Dongyu, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, said after releasing a study covering 15 invasive pests and diseases.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar clung to minor gains on Wednesday, edging up from near a five-month trough versus major peers, as a pickup in U.S. manufacturing kept bets alive for a quicker normalisation of Federal Reserve policy.
FILE PHOTO: Four thousand U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker counting currency at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six rivals, hovered just below 90 after dipping to as low as 89.662 on Tuesday and approaching the lowest since Jan. 7 at 89.533.
The euro traded at $1.22 after pulling back from near a multi-month top overnight, when it climbed to $1.22545.
They have conveniently missed taking the reference of cases per million of population. Because if one takes cases per million or casualties per million, India is one of the far better performing country on the global map, Gupta said. With
Improve intl communication, Xi says By XU WEI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-02 07:03 Share CLOSE Journalists with the A Date with China international media tour asks a man with a slight disability about his life-changing employment at the Jinfu Dragonfruit Base in Nanning, Southwest China s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on April 28, 2021. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
President calls for efforts to better tell China s stories
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has underlined the significance of bolstering the nation s capacity in engaging in international communication to foster an image of China that is trustworthy, lovable and respectable.