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Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses delegates during the first day of the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

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WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'
Sun,05/22/22-11:17AM, 101 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”
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In this photo provided by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, family members of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei weep over his body at his car after being shot by two assailants in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a senior member of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported. (IRNA via AP)

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Iran Revolutionary Guard colonel is shot dead in Tehran
Sun,05/22/22-9:41AM, 84 Reads
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported.
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Residents travel on a motorbike as they flee their home to avoid clashes between armed gangs, in the Croix-des-Mission neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Experts say the scale and duration of gang clashes, the power they are wielding and the amount of territory they control has reached levels not seen before. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

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Gangs strangle Haiti's capital as deaths, kidnappings soar
By EVENS SANON AND DÃNICA COTO - Associated Press
Sun,05/22/22-9:05AM, 98 Reads
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was about 6 a.m. when Venique Moïse flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people running — their children in one hand and scant belongings in the other — as gunfire intensified.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks on a screen inside a so-called Russian War Crimes House alongside the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. An exhibition with pictures documenting suspected Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian war are to be shown in the house. The annual meeting of the World Economy Forum is taking place in Davos from May. 22 until May. 26, 2020.

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Climate to conflict, Davos' post-COVID return has full plate
By JAMEY KEATEN AND MASHA MACPHERSON - Associated Press
Sun,05/22/22-8:59AM, 102 Reads
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Davos — the hub of an elite annual gathering in the Swiss Alps — is back, more than two years after the coronavirus pandemic kept its business gurus, political leaders and high-minded activists away.
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