Category: World News

Authorities in the Philippine capital Manila have arrested more than 2,700 people in a raid on suspected human trafficking. According to police, a building was stormed on Monday (local time) containing people from China, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Cameroon, Sudan and Malaysia, among others. These were allegedly trafficked to the country to work for an online casino.According to Cybercrime Division spokeswoman Michelle Sabino, police are trying to figure out who among the 2,724 arrested are the victims and who are suspects. More than 1,500 of those arrested were from the…

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Millions of Mexicans suffer from an extreme heat wave – the third this year. Since mid-April, Eight people have died across the country because of the high temperatures. With temperatures reaching 35 degrees in the centre of Mexico City, a metropolis of millions, the air in the capital is more than stuffy because of the exhaust fumes. In Monterrey in the northeast, temperatures are over 40 degrees Celsius. There, the water pressure in the pipes is decreasing, and due to the high electricity consumption caused by air-conditioning systems, there are…

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A woman already pronounced dead woke up again during her wake in a coffin. Local emergency personnel are now caring for her at the hospital, where the woman is stable.The woman was taken to the hospital after her “resurrection.”In Ecuador, a woman woke up again in her coffin during her wake and is now being treated in the same hospital that had previously declared her dead. A video posted on Twitter shows 76-year-old Bella Montoya breathing heavily in her open coffin while two men help her. Ecuadorian media celebrated the…

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The coronavirus remains the high benefit of adapted vaccines as well. This resulted from an Israeli study in which many people had already been immunized for the fifth time. Among seniors, this reduced covid-19 mortality by 68 percent. The incidence of hospital admissions dropped by 72 percent. The study will be presented this weekend at the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases annual meeting in Copenhagen, and its full contents were published Thursday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. The background, according to Ronen Arbel of Israel’s largest…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has now relaxed its vaccination recommendations against the coronavirus. Accordingly, in this new phase of the pandemic, only high-risk groups should receive an additional vaccination twelve months after their last booster, and not, as previously, healthy children and adolescents, for example. According to the WHO, this applies to older and younger people with significant risk factors. Corona: relaxation of vaccination recommendations.The organization also said Tuesday that vaccination protection beyond the basic immunization of two shots and a booster is no longer generally recommended for people…

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Trains, buses and planes have been at a standstill throughout Germany since midnight. The 24-hour warning strike is also causing massive disruptions in rail and air traffic in Austria. Among other things, all train connections via the German Corner are affected. Trains to and from Germany will be shortened or cancelled. According to information from Vienna Airport, all flights between Vienna and Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Stuttgart are also cancelled today. With the warning strikes, the German union Verdi and the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) want to increase the…

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A global action plan with a good 700 ambitious voluntary commitments is the result of the United Nations Water Summit in New York. The commitments come from governments as well as non-profit organizations and some companies. For example, 150 countries support the appointment of a U.N. special representative for water. In addition, a scientific panel on the subject will be set up.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called on countries to take action to combat the shortage of drinking water. All hope for humanity depends on charting a new course; he said,…

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WHO expert warns against new corona variant “Arcturus.” The whole world must be seriously worried – so dramatically, an Indian researcher warned about the Corona variant XBB.1.16. It also bears the name “Arcturus.” Is the excitement justified? How dangerous is it? It is named after the brightest star in the northern sky: Arcturus, the new omicron subvariant XBB.1.16. However, the expressions of some researchers are darkening with their appearance. That’s because this variant has caused infection rates in India to rise 281 percent in 14 days – and death rates…

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According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), the risk from the coronavirus will decrease to that of influenza before the end of this year. This was said by the head of the WHO emergency program, Michael Ryan, in Geneva on Friday. “I think we’re now getting to the point where we can see Covid-19 in the same way that we see seasonal influenza: as a health threat, as a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that won’t wreak havoc on our society or bring our…

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