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WHO convenes emergency monkeypox meeting amid growing fears about international outbreak

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World Health Organization bosses will hold an emergency monkeypox amid growing fears about the international outbreak.

Eleven countries have now detected the tropical virus, which is usually only spotted within Africa.

Germany and Belgium today became the latest nations to declare monkeypox cases, while France and Australia announced patients had tested positive overnight.

Experts on the UN agency are set to discuss the unusually high rates among gay and bisexual men, it was claimed today.

The panelists, reported to include

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Families of Americans detained in Russia amid conflict remain hopeful, despite fears of running out of time

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The families of Americans being held in Russia’s custody say they remain hopeful that the ongoing Russian conflict will not stymie their efforts to bring their loved ones home unscathed, despite their fears of time running out. 

Three Americans have been detained by Russian authorities for amounts of time varying from months to years. Nonetheless, the families of Brittney Griner, Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan remain relentless in their pursuit for

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Ukraine crisis: Fears Russian ‘false flag’ operation is underway to justify invasion

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Artillery fire rang out in eastern Ukraine today as Kiev’s forces and Moscow-backed rebels each blamed the other for the shooting, as NATO warned Russia is trying to stage a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine. 

A kindergarten in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska was struck first – around 9am local time – with Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba saying rebels shelled the building which is located close to the frontline on Kiev’s side. The military said two civilians were

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Covid? What Covid? Little sign of Omicron fears as Brits enjoy the last night out before Christmas

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SAGE’s scientists are warning that Christmas may have to be cancelled for a second year with calls for a two-week circuit breaker lockdown and a ban on indoor mixing to stop hospitalisations from the Omicron Covid wave peaking at 3,000 a day. 

Leaked minutes of a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) warn that restrictions are needed ‘very soon’ to avoid hospitalisations rising to 3,000 a day. 

The surging statistics came as Professor Neil Ferguson — whose … Read more

Omicron curbs needed for TWO MONTHS, top health boss warns amid fears variant behind 200,000 cases

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Fears are mounting that Britain could be plunged into a ‘de facto lockdown’ in the New Year because so many people will be sick with the Covid variant.

The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman said it was ‘valid’ to assume the UK could face 1million daily cases of the so-called ‘Omicron’ strain by next month – the equivalent of one in every 66 people catching the virus each day.

The variant has become dominant in London, with the capital’s Covid infection

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At least 70 DEAD in Kentucky tornado: Fears up to 100 people could have been killed

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At least 70 people are thought to have been killed in Kentucky, and there are multiple fatalities at an Amazon distribution center in Illinois, after at least 18 tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest of the US on Friday night.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said at a briefing midday on Saturday the death toll was now ‘north of 70’ and that ‘it may in fact end up exceeding 100 before the day is done.’  

‘This will be, I believe,

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Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid try to quell hospitality fears over limiting socialising

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Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid today tried to quell hospitality fears after health experts suggested it was ‘sensible’ for people to limit socialising over the festive period.

The Prime Minister urged people not to cancel Christmas parties or school nativity plays as he pledged to ‘throw everything’ at the booster vaccination campaign to tackle the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant.

He promised that everyone eligible would be offered a jab by the end of January with at least 400

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‘A storm in a teacup’: South African medics try to calm fears over Covid variant threat to Christmas

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South African medics moved to calm a wave of panic over a new ultra-infectious and vaccine resistant Covid strain today as its arrival in Europe sparked fears of a new Christmas shutdown.

Belgium revealed a case of the Botswana variant – named ‘Omicron’ by the World Health Organization tonight – prompting EU chiefs to call for an ’emergency brake’ on all travel from southern Africa after it was also found in Israel. 

The Belgian health ministry said a case of

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Covid super-mutant fears spread across Europe: Belgium has two confirmed cases

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Belgium today became the first European country to confirm a case of the super mutant Botswana Covid variant as it spreads to three continents in just a fortnight.

Ursula von der Leyen called for the EU to activate the ’emergency brake’ on travel from southern Africa on the back of the announcement, warning that the strain could be world-dominant in months.  

Belgium’s health ministry said the infection was spotted in an unvaccinated young woman who had returned from Egypt 11

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Russia deploys paratroopers to Belarus border region amid fears of conflict

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America has warned it is ‘looking at the tools it has’ to deal with Belarus after a day of rapid-fire developments led to fears of war breaking out on Europe’s eastern border.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused dictator Alexander Lukashenko of using migration as a political weapon against the EU as Vice President Kamala Harris condemned his ‘very troubling actions’ on Poland’s border. 

But defiant apparatchiks in Minsk hit back, as Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin accused western nations of

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