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Selena Gomez has won the support of French President Emmanuel Macron after encouraging world leaders to pledge their support to help provide poorer nations with Covid-19 vaccines. The Come & Get It singer, who has teamed up with Global Citizen bosses to host the forthcoming VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World, took to Twitter over the weekend to reach out to the heads of government in each of the G7 member states - Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. - urging them to come together in the fight against the coronavirus.
Along with appealing to French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and various other government leaders, Gomez called on Ardern, asking her: Can we count on your support too? You ve helped New Zealand fight COVID-19 domestically. Now we need your help globally to ensure everyone can access the vaccine, she wrote.
At the time of writing, Ardern had not replied to the 28-year-old pop star, but many Kiwis were quick to respond, with many pointing out Ardern had already taken action to ensure the vaccine would be available to New Zealand s overseas neighbours. Selena. Our PM has this covered. Our govt has arranged vaccines for Pacific nations, one irate tweet read.
A spokesperson for Jacinda Ardern responded in a statement to Newshub on Tuesday evening, saying New Zealand is committed to equitable access to safe and effective vaccines globally . New Zealand is a strong supporter of COVAX and has already contributed NZ$17 million to COVAX to help fund free vaccines to 92 low-income economies. And recently we announced that New Zealand will donate enough COVID-19 vaccines for more than 800,000 people to COVAX for distribution to developing countries with a focus on the Pacific. New Zealand has also purchased enough vaccines to ensure our Polynesian neighbours are able to vaccinate everyone who is eligible. We are also working with a number of other Pacific nations to support their vaccination campaigns.
By Reuters Staff
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MADRID, April 27 (Reuters) - Two Spanish journalists who went missing on Monday in Burkina Faso have been murdered, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.
“The worst of news is confirmed,” Sanchez said on his Twitter account, sending his condolences to the two men’s families. He named them as David Beriain and Roberto Fraile.
The two journalists went missing on Monday together with an Irish citizen and a Burkinabe national in an area near the border with Benin after armed individuals attacked a convoy of security forces and expatriates. (Reporting by Inti Landauro Editing by Ingrid Melander)