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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a complex global health challenge, with significant implications for human health, social well-being, and economic development.   On 6 September 2022, WHO will hold a high-level webinar to launch and share the findings of the Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration (GEHM) with a focus on AMR. The report, the fourth …

By Marek Strzelecki and Mari Saito PRZEMYSL, Poland (Reuters) – Ukraine’s neighbours reported a dip in numbers of refugees on Saturday as governments and volunteers struggled to find shelter for the nearly 2.6 million mostly women and children who have fled since Russia’s invasion two weeks ago. Source link

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered the fasting-growing refugee crisis in Europe since the second world war, according to the head of the United Nation’s refugee agency, UNHCR. The warning came as video emerged that appeared to show people trying to escape fighting in Irpin, just outside Kyiv, being shelled by Russian forces amid …

The Al Jala’a building, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday afternoon, contained offices for Al Jazeera and the Associated Press, among other media outlets, marking the latest escalation of violence that has spread across Israel and the Palestinian territories this week — the conflict’s bloodiest in recent years. Israel launched more airstrikes …

Instead, Biden will sign an emergency determination that keeps the Trump-era refugee cap of 15,000, but returns to regional allocations, in effect casting a wider net of who can arrive to the US under the historically low refugee ceiling currently in place. Biden will not lift the refugee cap this fiscal year, according to an …

Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter Joe Biden has not lifted Donald Trump’s historically low cap of 15,000 refugee admissions for this year, going back on an earlier pledge to welcome more than 60,000 refugees into the US. The president on Friday signed an emergency determination that officials said would speed refugee admissions …

France’s interior minister has described images of police breaking up a refugee camp in central Paris, chasing people down streets and attacking journalists and others with truncheons and teargas as “shocking”. Gérald Darmanin said he had demanded a report on the police operation by lunchtime on Tuesday. “Certain images of the breaking up of an …

Texas is the first state to decline resettlement, as part of a new executive order that requires state and local governments to give consent to receiving refugees. Abbott said in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the state and non-profit organizations “have a responsibility to dedicate available resources to those who are …

Foreign fighter jets are suspected by United Nations arms experts of launching precision missiles that killed at least 53 refugees housed in a Libyan refugee detention centre near Tripoli in July, one of the worst single atrocities of the Libyan civil war. The allegations, first published by the BBC, led the former British ambassador to …

Trump administration changes to US refugee policy are “tantamount to destroying the program”, according to experts, as the amount of people displaced worldwide continues to grow. On Thursday, the administration announced it would set a refugee cap of 18,000 people for the fiscal year, which begins 1 October. It also issued an executive order allowing …