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Women wearing the masks for Covid 19 while they walk in a market of Dhaka.
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News in Brief 4 January 2022

4 January 2022
News in Brief
  • 70 per cent vaccination target must be met to ward off Omicron: WHO
  • Guterres ‘encouraged’ by commitment to prevent nuclear war
  • Fire rips into COVID treatment centre for Myanmar refugees
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) campaigns to scrap nuclear weapons and create genuine security for future generations.
CND/Henry Kenyon

UN chief ‘encouraged’ by first joint statement from key nuclear armed States 

4 January 2022
UN Affairs

The Secretary-General, António Guterres, has welcomed a joint statement issued on Monday by five nuclear armed States on the prevention of nuclear war and the avoidance of the arms race. 

Sofi Esterhazy, mathematician at the University of Vienna.
UN News/Rocio Franco

Austrian scientist prepares for entry into force of UN nuclear ban treaty

16 July 2017
General News

Scientists are being trained by a UN-backed organization in methods to monitor whether or not a nuclear explosion has taken place.

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