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WHO chief warns 'variants are currently winning the race against vaccines' as Delta spreads

On the same day that the world reached the grim milestone of 4 million infectious-disease deaths, world-health-organization” target=”_blank”>World Health Organization<.  “Variants are currently winning the race against vaccines because of inequitable vaccine production and distribution,” Ghebreyesus said Wednesday at his biweekly conference in Geneva. “It didn’t have to be this …

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Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port the scene of an explosion and fire

A disasters broke out following an explosion from within a shipping container anchored in world-regions Wednesday.  Dubai’s media office said the fire was under control and port authorities will “take all necessary measures to ensure the normal movement of ships in the port.” The media office posted videos to Twitter …

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Iran hosts high-level Afghan peace talks as fighting surges

Iran on Wednesday hosted the first significant talks in months between the Taliban and Afghan government representatives — a previously unannounced meeting that comes as the U.S. completes its withdrawal from conflictsand districts increasingly fall to the Taliban across the country. The high-level peace talks between the warring Afghan sides …

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Two US soldiers injured in Iraq rocket attack

Two U.S. soldiers were injured during a rocket attack on Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq Wednesday, Army officials reported. A series of at least 14 rockets hit the Iraqi air base housing both U.S. and international forces, along with structures in the surrounding area. DRONE HITS IN VICINITY …

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Pope, recovering well, had 'severe' narrowing of his colon

pope-francis” target=”_blank”>Pope Francis<said Wednesday, as it revealed that final examinations showed he had suffered a “severe” narrowing of his colon. The pope-francis” target=”_blank”>Vatican’s< spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said the 84-year-old pope was continuing to eat regularly following Sunday’s surgery to remove half his colon, and that intravenous therapy had been suspended. …

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Famed Dutch crime reporter shot in head

world-regions is reportedly clinging to life after getting shot on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday. De Vries, a celebrity in the world-regions known for exposing the criminal underworld, was blasted in the head shortly after leaving the studio of world-regions broadcaster RTL, police officials and the media network said. Three …

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Iraq, Syria bases housing US troops attacked, 3 injured

BAGHDAD – U.S.-backed Syrian fighters and military” target=”_blank”>American troops<, the Syrian Democratic Forces said. In neighboring world-regions rockets hit a base housing U.S. troops, inflicting three minor injuries. The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition Col. Wayne Marotto said that at around 12:30 p.m. Al-Assad Air Base in western Iraq was …

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Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home, official says

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated overnight at his private home, according to a top government official who called the attack an “inhumane and barbaric act.” In a statement released by interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who will take over as interim president, Moïse was killed by an unidentified group. …

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