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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Robin MILLARD

Robots are presented during a press conference with a panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots as part of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 'AI for Good' global summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, July 07, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
July 9, 2023, 2:55 am
Human-looking robots tell UN they could run world better, but won’t rebel
At Geneva confab, robots say humans should proceed with caution when embracing artificial intelligence and admit they can’t — yet — grasp human emotions
By Robin MILLARD
Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
July 5, 2023, 3:35 pm
UN probe finds Iran still severely punishing, ‘chillingly’ executing protesters
Head of fact-finding mission says that 10 months after death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked major protests, family’s ‘right to truth and justice remains unfulfilled’
By Robin MILLARD
File: A demonstrator shows her hands reading '1.5 to survive' at a protest advocating for the warming goal at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 16, 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP/Peter Dejong)
May 17, 2023, 5:26 pm
Next five years expected to be hottest period ever recorded, UN warns
Annual global surface temperatures likely to exceed 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, an internationally accepted threshold for limiting worst effects of climate change
By Robin MILLARD
Britain's King Charles III waves as he leaves after a visit to the Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room (SOR) to thank Emergency Service workers for their work and support, ahead of the funeral of late Queen Elizabeth II, at the Lambeth headquarters in London, September 17, 2022. (Carl de Souza/Pool via AP)
September 19, 2022, 2:59 am
King Charles thanks public, as UK holds minute of silence ahead of Queen’s funeral
New monarch says he’s ‘moved beyond measure’ at public sympathies for Elizabeth II; world leaders pay respects to queen’s casket as it lies in state; queue closed to new entrants
By Helen Rowe, Robin MILLARD and Max Delany
Illustrative: A man checks a nasal spray bottle. (Malikov Aleksandr; iStock by Getty Images)
September 7, 2022, 7:44 pm
WHO says nasal vaccines could help tame COVID
‘You’re generating the 1st line of defense at where the virus enters,’ official at health agency says after China and India approve vaccines, but stresses more data needed
By Robin MILLARD
A photograph taken on July 3, 2022, shows the tail section of a 300mm rocket that appeared to contain cluster bombs and was launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher, embedded in the ground after shelling in Kramatorsk, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)
August 25, 2022, 7:07 pm
Monitor blasts Russia’s ‘horrendous’ use of cluster bombs in Ukraine
Ukraine is only place in the world where such munitions are currently deployed, Cluster Munition Coalition says, adds that Kyiv also used cruel weapon at least 3 times during war
By Robin MILLARD
A patient, who has recovered from monkeypox, shows a photo of a rash on his skin during an interview in New York on July 19, 2022. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
July 21, 2022, 7:53 am
WHO to decide on sounding highest level alarm on monkeypox as virus spreads
Expert committee to consider declaring outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; 14,000 case worldwide so far, with over 7,000 in Europe
By Robin MILLARD
Ukrainians carrying their belongings line up to enter in Poland as they flee their country crossing the Medyka border, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)
April 15, 2022, 6:13 pm
Over 5 million have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion, UN says
World body says more than 4.7 million Ukrainians and another 215,000 foreign nationals have fled to neighboring countries since war began; nearly 24,000 in Israel
By Robin MILLARD
Ukrainian evacuees stand outside the train station in Przemysl, near the Polish-Ukrainian border, on March 22, 2022, following Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP)
March 22, 2022, 5:25 pm
UN says more than 3.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded
Another 6.5 million Ukrainians internally displaced; UN migration chief: ‘Scale of human suffering and forced displacement due to war far exceeds any worst-case scenario planning’
By Robin MILLARD
Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine wait in line to apply for Polish ID numbers that will entitle them to work, free health care and education, as well as family bonuses, at a special application point at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on March 19, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
March 21, 2022, 3:02 pm
UN: Nearly 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled country, as world watches in ‘disbelief’
Refugee agency praises neighboring countries’ compassion for ‘extreme plight’ of refugees; most of those who crossed borders to escape have entered Poland
By Robin MILLARD
Ukrainian refugees pick up donated food and hygiene and bayby care products at the Warsaw Centralna train station, in Poland, March 16, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
March 17, 2022, 2:58 pm
‘Heartbreaking crisis’: Over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees flee fighting in 24 hours
In addition to the more than 3 million who have left country since start of fighting, another 2 million have been displaced within its borders in wake of Russian invasion, says UN
By Robin MILLARD
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2021. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)
March 9, 2022, 9:02 pm
Two years on, COVID pandemic ‘far from over,’ WHO warns
World Health Organization director-general says virus is still evolving, warns of unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines and tests
By Robin MILLARD
Photos on porcelain decorated with the images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad are displayed in a souvenir shop in Damascus, Syria, on April 18, 2016. Political observers say Russia’s brazen Syria intervention emboldened Putin, giving him a renewed Middle East foothold and helped pave the way for his current attack on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
March 9, 2022, 6:13 pm
UN’s Syria investigators warn world must not allow Ukraine to go down same path
Pointing to similarities between war-stricken countries, investigators say Russian and Syrian forces continue to ‘indiscriminately bomb densely populated areas’
By Robin MILLARD
The Pfizer company logo at the drug company's headquarters in New York. (Don EMMERT / AFP)
November 16, 2021, 5:04 pm
Pfizer strikes global licensing deal for antiviral COVID pill
Move could make treatment available to more than half the world’s population, by allowing generic drug companies to produce the pill cheaply in 95 low- and middle-income nations
By Robin MILLARD
A Sri Lankan university student receives her coronavirus vaccine at the Sri Jayawardenapura university in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 11, 2021. (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)
October 11, 2021, 8:50 pm
WHO experts back COVID-19 booster shot for those with weak immune systems
Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization says target people are less likely to respond adequately to vaccination with just two doses
By Robin MILLARD
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