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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), removes his protective face mask prior to speaking to the media regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 and WHO's global health priorities in 2022, during a new press conference, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Ghebreyesus has laid out his plans and goals to further fight the coronavirus and other priorities as he pitched his case for a new five-year term. It came as he has faced criticism from the government of his own country Ethiopia over his comments about the embattled Tigray region. Tedros is running unopposed for a second five-year term that he is all but certain to win at the WHO's annual assembly in May. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

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WHO chief makes case for 2nd term as Ethiopia criticizes him
By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press
Tue,01/25/22-9:05AM , 108 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus laid out more plans Tuesday to fight the virus as he pitched his case for a new five-year term and faced criticism from his own country — Ethiopia — over his comments about the embattled Tigray region.
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote address for the 2022 World Economic Forum virtual session in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Xi called Monday for greater world cooperation against COVID-19 and pledged to send an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine to other countries, while urging other powers to discard a "Cold-War mentality" at a time of rising geopolitical tensions — a veiled swipe at the United States. (Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP)

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China's Xi rejects 'Cold War mentality,' pushes cooperation
By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press
Mon,01/17/22-5:21AM , 121 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that his country will send an additional 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to other countries, calling for global cooperation to tackle the pandemic a
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File---File picture taken Jan.24, 2022 shows a police security guard on the roof of a hotel ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

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COVID, China, climate: Online Davos event tackles big themes
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Sat,01/15/22-1:35AM , 130 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row, but organizers still hope to catapult the world into thinking about the future with a scaled
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The logo and building of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 April 2020. The World Health Organization says on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world over the last week, noting a 71% surge in the weekly count of infections amounting to a “tsunami” as the new omicron variant sweeps worldwide. But there was a decrease in the number of new deaths recorded. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

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WHO: Record weekly jump in COVID-19 cases but fewer deaths
By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press
Thu,01/06/22-10:20AM , 107 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that the U.N.
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