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13UK PM Johnson Calls on Richest Countries to Meet $100bn Climate Pledge
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a meeting of world leaders on climate change in New York on Tuesday warned that more must be given by rich economies to support developing countries’ transition to net zero. Ahead of the Paris Agreement, developed countries committed to mobilise $100 billion a year...
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12‘Game-changer’: China to Stop Funding Overseas Coal Projects
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that China would no longer fund the construction of new coal-fired power projects overseas, surprising the world on climate for the second straight year at the United Nations General Assembly. China has supported coal projects in developing countries including Indonesia and Bangladesh and has...
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12‘Inhumane’: US Special Envoy to Haiti Resigns Over Migrant Expulsions
The Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting “inhumane” large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, U.S. officials said Thursday. Daniel Foote was appointed to the position only in July, following the assassination of Haiti’s president. Even before the migrant...
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15Brazil’s Health Minister Tests Positive for Covid at UN General Assembly
Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga has tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was the first world leader to speak. The Brazilian government said on Tuesday that Queiroga, who had received a COVID-19 vaccine, was the second member...
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14IMF Board Meets over Alleged Manipulation of World Bank ‘Doing Business’ Report
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday met for an initial briefing from the Ethics Committee on the alleged role of the Fund’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ 2018 report. An independent investigation released by a law firm, WilmerHale, had on...
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13‘Go Big’: US Doubles Covid Vaccine Purchases for Global Sharing
President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will double its purchases of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines for low and middle-income countries, bringing its pledged donations to a total of 1.1 billion doses. Speaking at a virtual international summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday,...
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Nicaragua Seeks Stronger Ties with Nigeria
The Republic of Nicaragua has called for stronger bilateral cooperation with the Nigeria. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada Colindres, made the call during a bilateral meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on the sidelines of the 76th United Nations General...
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13UN: Black foreigners paid $500 each to protest against Yoruba Nation -Prof. Akintoye
The Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has accused the Federal Government of sponsoring a counter protest at the United Nations Headquaters on Friday (tomorrow). He alleged that the Nigerian Government has started hiring black foreigners living in the United States of America with $500...
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13EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple
The European Union announced on Thursday that it will impose a universal charger for smartphones, setting up a clash with Apple and its widely used iPhone. The European Commission believes a standard cable for all devices will cut back on electronic waste, but Apple argues that a one-size-fits-all charger would...
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Philippines’ president slams rich countries for hoarding COVID-19 vaccines
Philippines’ President, Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday condemned the rich countries’ selfish plan to hoard COVID-19 vaccines while poor and developing nations are experiencing vaccine drought. The president said this in a pre-recorded virtual address at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, that a man-made drought of vaccines...
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42EU, US urge others to join methane reduction pledge
The European Union and the United States on Saturday called on more nations to join a pledge to slash methane gas emissions and cut warming by at least 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2050. The initiative — unveiled by President Joe Biden on Friday — means countries would commit to a...
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51Coup: ECOWAS suspends Guinea’s membership, sends mission to Conakry
A mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will on Thursday visit Guinea which has been gripped by a military coup, according to a communique issued late Wednesday. The communique was issued after a virtual meeting of the organisation, convened by ECOWAS Chairman Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,...
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US trains NCDC officials, others on emergency response
The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, US-CDC, on Monday, kicked off a two-week capacity building programme in Lagos for Nigerian experts on public health emergency response. The training seeks to certify the first cohort of 40 participants drawn from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, state-level...
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73Biden to address UN General Assembly for first time as president
Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week for first the time as U.S president. The White House said on Monday that Bien would travel to New York on Tuesday next week to speak at the assembly’s General Debate. Republican Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor,...
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84Russia fines Facebook, Twitter over banned content
Russia fined Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday for not deleting banned content, adding to a slew of penalties the government has imposed on foreign tech giants. Russia has recently been tightening controls over US-based tech companies and last week accused them of interfering in parliamentary polls this weekend. A court...