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Hospitals across China are scrambling to source ventilators and other ICU equipment amid a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections after the government dropped widespread testing and targeted lockdowns under the zero-COVID policy, as residents of Wuhan report rampant community transmission of the virus.
United Nations Deputy secretary-General Amina Mohammed,meets with Norway’s foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt
Elon Musk had an eventful year, capping it off with a nearly-failed $44 billion takeover of Twitter to close out 2022. It is uncertain what will become of Twitter in light of the contentious CEO’s changes, disruptions, layoffs, and resignations.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, large-scale land warfare came back to Europe, bringing in a dangerous new era of conflict and nuclear brinksmanship.
Igor Ponochevny was living and working in Russia when he drew his first political cartoon. He started drawing under the pseudonym Alyosha Stupin in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea.
A peace deal to end Ethiopia’s two-year civil war with Tigrayan forces was reached in November, but it is uncertain whether it would be honored.
A football festival, featuring 29 days of football, music, culture, and lifestyle, is welcomed by football fans from all over the world
The Permanent Representative of the State of Libya to the UN, Taher M. El-Sonni, addresses Security Council about the situation in Libya
Thousands of migrants are waiting for Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing the swift expulsion of migrants at the U.S. border, to expire on December 21 in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which is located just south of El Paso, Texas
Half of Somalia, including Somaliland, has been hit by the Horn of Africa’s record-breaking drought. The country will experience its worst famine in fifty years, according to the U.N., if further relief does not arrive soon.