WORLD WIDE News (2024)

09/02/2022

Indian National Congress's Rahul Gandhi tweet.

09/02/2022

Indian National Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweet.

09/02/2022

🥇🥇🥇Nathan Chen, of the United States, flipped, whirled and even punched his way to a world-record score in the men’s figure skating short program at the Beijing Olympics. Next up for the Salt Lake City native is an expected and long-awaited coronation as Olympic champion. Chen made history in a historic venue by crushing the world record with a score of 113.97 at the Capital Indoor Stadium. Chen shined on a day when the U.S. women’s hockey team lost to rival Canada 4-2, and San Francisco native Eileen Gu brushed aside a torrent of hate on social media and won a gold medal for China.

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09/02/2022

🥇🥈🥉 DAILY MEDAL COUNT: Here are the top 10 countries in the final medal count race from Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.

👉 Roundup of Olympic medals from Feb. 8:

ALPINE SKIING

• Men's Super-G

Defending champion Matthias Mayer of Austria won the men’s super-G, capturing a third Olympic gold medal.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the United States was 0.04 seconds behind in second, and World Cup super-G leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway was 0.42 behind in third.

Mayer broke Norway’s 16-year grip on the men’s Olympic super-G title when he won in 2018. That was four years after winning the downhill in Sochi.

The 31-year-old Mayer also claimed bronze in the men’s downhill on Monday.

BIATHLON

• Men's 20km Individual

Quentin Fillon Maillet of France won decisively in the 20-kilometer individual biathlon, adding a gold medal to the silver he won in the mixed relay over the weekend.

Fillon Maillet has dominated the biathlon world lately. He’s had 10 World Cup podium finishes this season. Half of those were wins.

He missed two of 20 targets Tuesday and finished the course in 48 minutes, 47.4 seconds. Anton Smolski of Belarus shot clean, hitting all 20 of his targets, but came in 14.8 seconds behind the Frenchman.

Defending individual Olympic champion Johannes Thingnes Boe of Norway also missed two targets and took the bronze medal.

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

• Men's Sprint Free

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway defended his Olympic cross-country sprint title at the Beijing Games on Tuesday, leading the final for the entire race and punching the air when he crossed the finish line.

Klaebo won the race in 2 minutes, 58.06 seconds. Frederico Pellegrino of Italy took silver, .26 seconds behind. Russian skier Alexander Terenteva earned bronze, 1.31 behind.

• Women's Sprint Free

Jonna Sundling of Sweden won the race in 3:09.68, finishing 2.88 seconds ahead of teammate Maja Dahlqvist on Tuesday. Jessie Diggins of the United States took bronze, 3.16 seconds behind.

Sundling is a first-time Olympian but has two world championship sprint titles, and team sprint titles with Dahlqvist.

09/02/2022

🥇🥇🥇Birk Ruud of Norway spun away with a gold medal in the Olympics’ first men’s freestyle skiing big air event to re-emerge as a leader in the extreme sport after losing his father to cancer and injuring his knee.

👉 The 21-year-old Birk Ruud of Norway won the gold medal in the men’s freestyle big air competition, with American Colby Stevenson taking home the silver medal, six years after suffering massive injuries in a near-fatal automobile crash, including a fractured skull. Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut won the bronze medal.

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09/02/2022

📷 Damaged houses and debris are seen in the aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai, in Mananjary, Madagascar, Feb. 8, 2022.

The death toll from Madagascar's latest cyclone rose to 29 on Tuesday as residents of a devastated coastal town tried to fix their homes or build temporary shacks from wood and palm fronds scattered by the violent winds.

Cyclone Batsirai slammed into the Indian Ocean island late Saturday, battering the southeastern coastline until it moved away late Sunday, leaving 91,000 people with damaged or destroyed homes, according to the state disaster relief agency.

It was Madagascar's second destructive storm in two weeks, after Cyclone Ana killed 55 people and displaced 130,000 in a different area of the country, further north.

The island nation, which has a population of nearly 30 million, was already struggling with food shortages in the south, a consequence of a severe and prolonged drought. The World Food Program said Batsirai had made the situation worse by destroying crops that were just two weeks from harvest.

In Mananjary, one of the worst affected towns, entire neighborhoods had been flattened, with planks of wood, palm fronds, clothing and household items strewn everywhere. A long sandy beach was covered in debris.

"Our TV, my CD player, all of our clothing, all the kitchenware, everything is gone," said resident Philibert Jean-Claude Razananoro, 49, surveying his collapsed home.

He and his family were staying in a school, designated as an evacuation center by the government, but they had been told they would have to leave at the weekend for lessons to resume next week.

"We plan to build a small shack just here, but we don't really have the means to do it," he said, appealing to the international community to help.

09/02/2022

🥇🥇🥇 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS: Here are some of the gold medal winners, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.

Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, women's speedskating;

Stefania Constantini and her teammate Amos Mosaner, of Italy, mixed doubles curling;

Natalie Geisenberger, of Germany, luge women's singles;

Ryoyu Kobayashi, of Japan, ski jumping;

Denise Herrmann, of Germany, biathlon.

This year the Olympics are being held under a “bubble” that requires all Olympic athletes, officials, staff and journalists to remain isolated to keep the coronavirus from potentially spreading to the public.

09/02/2022

📷 Students who were barred from entering their classrooms because they were wearing a hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women, arrive at their college in Udupi, India, Feb. 7, 2022.

Authorities ordered schools in southern India to close for three days as protests grew over a ban on wearing the hijab.

At one demonstration Tuesday, officers fired tear gas to scatter protesters at a government-run school campus. A larger-than-usual police presence was noted at schools in nearby towns in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Agence France-Presse reported.

"I appeal to all the students, teachers, and management of schools and colleges … to maintain peace and harmony," Basavaraj Bommai, the chief minister of Karnataka, said after announcing the school closures, according to AFP.

Muslim students in Karnataka state had been told not to wear the hijab and were prohibited from entering classrooms with it on. Since December 31, students wearing headscarves at Udupi College have been marked absent despite their attempts to attend their classes, according to Al-Jazeera news service.

The first student protests began at Udupi College, an all-girls high school in the Udupi district of Karnataka. As more schools began banning the hijab, students filed petitions with the state courts claiming that their religious rights were being challenged, the Associated Press reported. On Tuesday, Karnataka's top court began hearing one of these petitions but adjourned before ruling.

Minority communities have been expressing a growing fear of increasing persecution under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Bharatiya Janata, Modi's Hindu nationalist party, governs Karnataka state and has expressed its full support for the ban.

09/02/2022

📷 A dead hawksbill sea turtle is displayed, along with the plastic materials, top, and food items found in its system during an autopsy at the Al Hefaiyah Conservation Center lab in the city of Kalba, on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates, Feb. 1, 2022.

A staggering 75% of all dead green turtles and 57% of all loggerhead turtles in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, had eaten marine debris, including plastic bags, bottle caps, rope and fishing nets, according to a new study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The study seeks to document the damage and danger of throwaway plastic, whose use has surged around the world, along with other marine debris.

09/02/2022

📷 The coffin of 5-year-old Rayan is lowered into a grave during his funeral after his body was retrieved from a deep well in the village of Ighran in Morocco's Chefchaouen province, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022.

Five-year-old Rayan was pulled dead from a 32-meter deep dry well where he was trapped for four days.

The Moroccan royal palace said Saturday that Rayan died after being trapped in a deep well for four days.

Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy's parents in a statement released by the palace.

The boy, Rayan, was pulled from the well Saturday night by rescuers after a lengthy operation that captivated global attention.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw the boy wrapped in a yellow blanket after he emerged from a tunnel dug specifically for the rescue.

His parents had been escorted to an ambulance before the boy emerged.

Online messages of support and concern for the boy poured in from around the world as the rescue efforts dragged through the night.

Rescuers used a rope to send oxygen and water down to the boy as well as a camera to monitor him. By Saturday morning, the head of the rescue committee, Abdelhadi Temrani, said: "It is not possible to determine the child's condition at all at this time. But we hope to God that the child is alive."

Nationwide, Moroccans had taken to social media to offer their hopes for the boy's survival, using the hashtag , which brought global attention to the rescue efforts.

09/02/2022

The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine:

• U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said finding a diplomatic resolution to the Russia-Ukraine crisis is “by far the preferable course, the responsible course,” but that the U.S. also is “building up strong deterrence to dissuade Russia from taking aggressive action.”

• British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is the latest Western diplomat holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. She said she would make clear Russian aggression “would bring massive consequences.”

• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that while the situation with Russia is still tense, efforts from European allies have helped lower tensions.

• Pope Francis issued a call for peace, telling faithful at the Vatican, “And let’s not forget, war is insanity.”

• The West is demanding that Russia pull its troops and weapons from Ukraine’s border, while Moscow is pushing for NATO to curtail its operations in eastern and central Europe. Russia also maintains that the Western defensive alliance should reject Ukraine’s NATO membership bid, a move the United States calls a “non-starter.”

06/01/2022

📷 Commuters leave a platform after disembarking from a suburban train, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a railway station on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, Jan. 5, 2022.

Booster shots given to health care and frontline workers in India, along with those above 60 who have comorbidities, starting next week will the same as the first two shots they received, Indian health officials said Wednesday.

Most other countries, including the U.S. and the European Union, have adopted a 'mix-and-match' approach, meaning that boosters are different from previous shots.

Although India has approved several vaccines and has hoped that by the beginning of 2022 it would have several homegrown vaccines being used, the health system continues to rely heavily on the AstraZeneca vaccine being made by Serum Institute.

More than 85% of the shots given in India have been the AstraZeneca vaccine made by Serum Institute of India and about 12% were made by Indian company Bharat Biotech.

Officials also said the COVID-19 infection has been rising exponentially in India and is likely driven by the omicron variant.

Health Ministry official, Luv Agarwal said that daily COVID-19 cases have gone up from 9,195 on 29 December, to 58,097 cases on Wednesday.

30/12/2021

A livestream early Wednesday morning alerted the world to another raid on a pro-democracy news outlet in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong national security police, armed with a search warrant, were pressing to enter the home of Stand News journalist Ronson Chan.

Officers told Chan they were there as part of an investigation related to charges of conspiring to publish seditious content and told the journalist to stop recording.

Later in the day, authorities announced that six people had been arrested, and Stand News announced via Facebook that the news website would “immediately cease to operate.”

30/12/2021

📷 People remove their belongings after local authorities demolished the illegal structures built near Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 30, 2021.

24/12/2021

📷 Elephants share gifts with children during Christmas celebrations at the Jirasart Witthaya school in Ayutthaya, Indonesia, Friday, December 24.

23/12/2021

📷 Officials show amphetamine that was hidden in punching bags bound for Australia, seized in a Thailand port, in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 23, 2021

Authorities in Thailand intercepted more than 193 kilograms of amphetamine hidden in punching bags bound for Australia where it would have a street value of almost $30 million.

The drugs, packaged in bags each weighing more than 10 kilograms, were hidden in 15 punching bags.

Officials told a news conference the shipment was inspected by Thai customs after authorities grew suspicious since the Thai-made boxing training tool is not in high demand in Australia.

They did not provide details of when the drugs were seized.

Both Thai and Australian authorities are working together in the investigation.

23/12/2021

The U.S. Navy says it seized about 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and 226,000 rounds of ammunition from a fishing ship in the northern part of the Arabian Sea.

"The stateless vessel was assessed to have originated in Iran and transited international waters along a route historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen," the Navy’s 5th Fleet said Wednesday in a statement.

It said the crew of five people identified themselves as Yemeni and would be returned to Yemen, and that the U.S. Navy sank the vessel after determining it posed a hazard to commercial shipping navigation.

Western nations have accused Iran of smuggling arms into Yemen to aid the Houthis, which Iran denies.

The Houthis seized Yemen’s capital in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to launch a military operation backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

18/12/2021

Newly elected Liberal Democrat lawmaker Helen Morgan bursts 'Boris' bubble' held by colleague Tim Farron, as she celebrates in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, Friday December 17, following her victory in the North Shropshire by-election.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a crushing by-election defeat Friday in a constituency never previously lost by his Conservative Party, a result that raises serious questions about his leadership.

His party won the seat in North Shropshire, England, by a massive majority in 2019, but that was wiped out by the Liberal Democrats in Thursday's vote in a result that will intensify the mutinous mood among Conservative MPs.

Johnson, 57, was already reeling after roughly 100 of his MPs rebelled in parliament Tuesday against the government's introduction of vaccine passes for large events.

The British leader's authority has also been clobbered repeatedly in recent weeks by claims of corruption and reports that he and his staff broke coronavirus restrictions last Christmas.

Weeks of bad headlines turned what would normally be a routine victory in the safe rural seat — won by 23,000 votes just two years ago — into a shattering defeat of almost 6,000 votes, while surging virus cases have added to a sense of crisis.

The government reported nearly 89,000 new infections Thursday, the second consecutive record daily tally.

18/12/2021

Thousands of North Koreans marked the 10th anniversary Friday of the death of the country’s former leader, Kim Jong Il.

Current leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il’s son, attended a ceremony with hundreds of others at Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum for Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung, the founder of the country.

During the ceremony, Kim Jong Un was seen bowing to a large portrait of his father but was not shown speaking.

To mark the anniversary, the North Korean regime has banned laughing for 10 days. The laughing ban is in addition to bans on drinking alcohol, shopping and leisure activities normally in place on the anniversary.

Kim Jong Il ruled the Stalinist state for 17 years, and the Kim family, which North Koreans are taught to revere, has ruled for 48 years. During the Kim reign, the country developed nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles but often failed to feed itself.

During Kim Jong Il’s reign, the country suffered widespread famine.

Despite the economic problems, which reportedly have been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, the regime has managed to maintain control.

Horns and sirens sounded for three minutes at noon as flags were lowered to half-staff. Large crowds bearing flowers climbed Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill, where there are giant statues of the elder Kims.

04/12/2021

President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi Tweet.

04/12/2021

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Tweet.

04/12/2021

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Tweet.

04/12/2021

📷 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, at Downing Street on Friday, December 3.

Johnson greeted the Sultan with an elbow bump outside No. 10 before the pair sat down for a meeting at the prime minister's residence.

04/12/2021

Omicron is unlikely to have completely outsmarted the vaccines, experts say, even with its unusual array of mutations.

There are a lot of unknowns, but they expect that the shots will still do what they do best: Keep people out of the hospital and out of the grave.

Omicron raised alarms when it was first identified during a sharp spike in cases in South Africa. The World Health Organization added it to its list of variants of concern last week.

The virus contains dozens of mutations, including several that are thought to make it more infectious and others that appear to help it evade the immune system.

"But I think it's still very possible that vaccines will hold up against severe disease, even with those mutations," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a professor of medicine at Emory University and president-elect of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

That's what has happened with every variant so far. With delta, he noted, "breakthrough" infections among vaccinated people have increased, but those cases are mostly mild.

Omicron seems to be better able than other variants to infect people who have already had COVID-19, according to early data from South Africa. But people with reinfections generally have not been seriously ill.

Experts are recommending boosters for people who can get them. U.S. officials have authorized them for everyone age 18 and older.

04/12/2021

📷 Disabled students pose for photographs after participating in activities to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at a school run by the Association of People with Disability in Bengaluru, India, Friday, December 3.

According to the United Nations, an estimated one billion people, or approximately 15% of the world's population, live with some form of disability.

04/12/2021

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters Friday he has been developing a set of initiatives that will make it “very, very difficult” for Russia to escalate the situation at its border with Ukraine, where Moscow has been building up troops and equipment for weeks.

The situation at Ukraine’s eastern border has raised fears Moscow is planning to invade its neighbor. Russian aggression was the focus this week of a NATO foreign ministers meeting, with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warning Russia any escalation of the situation would come at a high price.

Earlier Friday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Russia has now massed more than 94,000 troops near Ukraine's border, suggesting to him they could be preparing for a large-scale military offensive at the end of January.

When asked about the situation during remarks Friday at the White House, Biden told reporters he has been in constant contact with U.S. allies in Europe, and with Ukraine. He said Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan have been engaged extensively.

Biden said his administration is "putting together what I believe to be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do. But that's in play right now."

The US president offered no details of what his initiatives might be.

04/12/2021

📷 Afghan girls look for visitors to sell water in a graveyard at Lake Shuhada in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2021.

The U.N. refugee agency warns that humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are rising to epic proportions as winter sets in and millions of Afghans face a crisis of hunger and starvation.

Temperatures in Afghanistan are beginning to plunge below freezing and are expected to drop to minus 25 degrees Celsius. The U.N. refugee agency warns some 3.5 million Afghans forcibly displaced by conflict and war are ill-prepared to survive the bitter cold.

UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch says many displaced families lack insulated shelters, warm clothes, and fuel for heating. He says they do not have enough food and they lack medical supplies and other essential relief.

“The humanitarian crisis is escalating daily in Afghanistan. Hunger in the country has reached truly unprecedented levels. Nearly 23 million people — that is 55% of the population — are facing extreme levels of hunger, and nearly 9 million of them are at risk of famine,” Baloch said.

He recently returned from a lengthy stay in Afghanistan. While there, he says he witnessed heartbreaking scenes of destitution and desperation.

The U.N. spokesman says he has met single mothers with no shelter or food for their children. He says he has met elderly people who have been displaced and are left to take care of orphaned grandchildren.

“One single mother that I met, she has a 6-month-old baby, a 12-year-old son, a 10-year-old daughter, and two parents to look after because the husband died in the fighting. So, she has to take care of the full family. … Her children go hungry. So, the two kids, the 12-year-old and the 10-year-old, they have to work.”

Baloch says malnutrition levels are soaring, with many children ending up in hospitals. He says the condition of about 3 million malnourished children is very concerning. He warns 1 million of those children are at imminent risk of dying if they do not urgently receive the support they need.

04/12/2021

📷 Afghan children play soccer with U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Nussel, a cultural awareness specialist, outside temporary housing in Liberty Village on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Dec. 2.

03/12/2021

Prime Minister Pakistan Imran Khan Tweet.

02/12/2021

Minister of Press Service in Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov meets with US Secretary State Antony J. Blinken.

02/12/2021

📷 Afghan girls participate in lessons at Tajrobawai Girls High School, in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, November 25.

High school girls are sitting at home almost everywhere in Afghanistan, forbidden to attend class by the Taliban rulers. But there’s one major exception.

For weeks, girls in the western province of Herat have been back in high school classrooms — the fruit of a unique, concerted effort by teachers and parents to persuade local Taliban administrators to allow them to reopen.

Taliban officials never formally approved the reopening after the lobbying campaign, but they also didn't prevent it either when teachers and parents started classes on their own in early October.

“Parents, students and teachers joined hand in hand to do this,” said Mohammed Saber Meshaal, the head of the Herat teachers’ union who helped organize the campaign. “This is the only place where community activists and teachers took the risk of staying and talking to the Taliban.”

The success in Herat highlights a significant difference in the Taliban’s current rule over Afghanistan from their previous one in the late 1990s. Back then, the militants were uncompromising in their hard-line ideology, banning women from public life and work and barring all girls from education. They used force and brutal punishments to enforce the rules.

This time, they appear to recognize they cannot be as ruthless in an Afghanistan that has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. They have imposed some old rules but have been ambiguous about what is allowed and what is not. The ambiguity might aim to avoid alienating the public as the Taliban wrestle with a near-total economic collapse, a shutdown in international funding.

02/12/2021

📷 Guests receive a traditional Fijian welcome as they arrive at Nadi International airport in Fiji, Wednesday, December 1.

Fiji reopened its border to international travelers for the first time in nearly two years on Wednesday, as the Pacific Island country seeks to revive its dominant tourism industry.

Fiji shut its border to all foreign nationals in March 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19 in a desperate bid to stop its limited medical facilities being overrun.

With about 90% of all Fijian adults now fully vaccinated, the Pacific Island reopened its border to tourists from a small number of countries - much to the relief of tourism operators.

Tourists arriving will have to stay three nights in an approved resort and undergo rapid testing. They can move around designated areas, including bars and restaurants within the hotels, while they can embark on some day trips and activities.

Although limited, the resumption of tourism is a boost to many of the island nation's 1 million people.

Tourism accounts for 40% of Fiji’s economy and the border closure saw an estimated 10% of the population unemployed.

Still the reopening marks a risk to Fiji with Australia one of a few countries to record cases of the omicron variant.

Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama hailed the return of tourists, who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and tested for infection.

02/12/2021

📷 USA President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, light a menorah in the East Room of the White House in Washington, to celebrate Hanukkah, Dec. 1, 2021.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president.

In a statement released Sunday, President Biden said, “Much like Thanksgiving, Hanukkah is a holiday dedicated to the expression of gratitude for the blessings and miracles in our lives – big and small, seen and unseen, from ancient times until the present day.”

In 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. leader to light a large menorah outside the White House near the National Mall.

02/12/2021

📷 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is greeted by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara upon his arrival for a visit in Ivory Coast at Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport in Abidjan, Dec. 1, 2021.

Ramaphosa began his state visits to Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal this week. He is expected to talk about trade and economic recovery on the African continent post-Covid-19.

Ramaphosa conducts his trip as the new COVID-19 variant omicron was first reported in South Africa last week and many countries have suspended flights to South Africa.

The U.S. joins a growing list of nations that have imposed some form of travel restrictions or outright bans on foreign travelers since the omicron variant was first identified November 24 by scientists in South Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

The first confirmed U.S. case of someone infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in the Western state of California, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

The person returned to the U.S. from a trip to South Africa on November 22 and tested positive on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, told reporters at the White House.

The omicron case adds the U.S. to the growing list of at least 24 countries where the variant has been discovered.

02/12/2021

📷 A large red ribbon is seen on the White House to mark World AIDS Day in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021.

Marking the 33rd annual World AIDS Day on Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would ramp up its domestic and international efforts to fight the HIV virus, which has killed 36 million people worldwide in four decades.

Biden also released Wednesday the domestic-focused National HIV-AIDS Strategy, which aims for a 90% reduction in new HIV cases in the U.S. over the next nine years. Currently, about 1.2 million Americans are thought to be living with the virus.

The administration has said that racism that leads to unequal medical care is itself "a public health threat" that needs to be acknowledged in the battle against the virus.

The president offered two new measures aimed at ending the epidemic in the United States by 2030 and boosting U.S. efforts to end the spread of HIV, the virus that can progress to AIDS, around the world.

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