November 28, 2022
UN: Great Barrier Reef Should Be on Heritage ‘Danger’ List
A United Nations-backed mission is recommending that the Great Barrier Reef be added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites, warning that without “ambitious, rapid and sustained” climate action the world’s largest coral reef is in peril. The warning came in a report published Monday following a 10-day mission to the reef last March by officials from UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The reef, a living place of immense variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia, has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1981. Australia’s federal government and Queensland’s state authorities
WHO Renames Monkeypox as Mpox, Citing Racism Concerns
The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the next year while the old name is phased out. WHO said it was concerned by the “racist and stigmatizing language” that arose after monkeypox spread to more than 100 countries. It said numerous individuals and countries asked the organization “to propose a way forward to
THE MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRADE “We must ensure that trade relations with the United States remain robust, ambitious and mutually beneficial” – Minister Ian Borg
“We must ensure that the commercial relations of the European Union with the United States remain robust, ambitious, and mutually beneficial for both continents. Malta welcomes this renewed commitment and considers it important to continue working for stronger transatlantic cooperation”, stated the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg during his address at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting related to trade in Brussels. Minister Borg claimed that it is essential to focus their work on the implementation of what was agreed upon in the Trade and Technology Council with the United States. There is a need