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Updated December 22, 2020
This picture taken on April 24, 2020 shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva next to their headquarters, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus.
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The World Health Organization in Europe said Tuesday it would convene its members to discuss how to handle a new variant of the novel coronavirus discovered in the UK.
Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe said on Twitter that the organisation was closely monitoring the spread of the new variant and would “convene member states to discuss strategies for testing, reducing transmission & communicating risks,” without specifying a timeframe.
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Updated December 22, 2020
A tower of the electric power line Kurzeme Circle (Kurzemes Loks) is pictured on June 18, 2020, in Tukums, near Riga, Latvia. – Latvia completed a new high-voltage power line to Estonia on December 21, 2020, in the latest step in aligning electricity grids in the Baltic states with European Union neighbours instead of Russia. (Photo by Gints Ivuskans / AFP)
Tens of millions across China are facing power shortages in below-freezing winter temperatures, as three provinces impose curbs on electricity use due to surging demand and a squeezed coal supply.
Residents, factories and businesses in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces have been ordered to ration electricity with some areas citing a shortfall in coal supplies, according to local media reports and government notices.
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Updated December 22, 2020
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 28, 2016 A portrait of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is seen in the FIFA World Football Museum during its inauguration in Zurich. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)
FIFA on Tuesday announced it had filed a criminal complaint against former president Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making museum in Zurich.
In a statement, FIFA said it had “lodged a criminal complaint with Zurich’s cantonal prosecutor as evidence of suspected criminal mismanagement by FIFA’s former management and companies appointed by them in relation to the (museum) has surfaced.”
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A tower of the electric power line Kurzeme Circle (Kurzemes Loks) is pictured on June 18, 2020, in Tukums, near Riga, Latvia. – Latvia completed a new high-voltage power line to Estonia on December 21, 2020, in the latest step in aligning electricity grids in the Baltic states with European Union neighbours instead of Russia. (Photo by Gints Ivuskans / AFP)
Tens of millions across China are facing power shortages in below-freezing winter temperatures, as three provinces impose curbs on electricity use due to surging demand and a squeezed coal supply.
Residents, factories and businesses in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces have been ordered to ration electricity with some areas citing a shortfall in coal supplies, according to local media reports and government notices.
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A handout picture provided by Sudan’s Prime Ministers office on December 20, 2020 shows Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) meeting with his Sudanese counterpart Abdalla Hamdok on the sidelines of the 38th Extraordinary Summit of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Djibouti. (Photo by Office of Sudan’s Prime Minister / AFP)
Sudan and Ethiopia started talks Tuesday to demarcate their border, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said, one week after a deadly clash in a disputed area.
The delegations were led by Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Demeke Mekonnen, and Sudan’s minister in charge of the cabinet, Omar Manis.