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• World Health Organization calls for halt on COVID vaccine boosters, citing low world vaccine rate
  by Worthy News Staff on August 5, 2021 at 3:11 am

  The World Health Organization is calling for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, as the gap between vaccinations in wealthy and poor countries widens.

• Britain demands response from UNSC for Iranian attack on Israeli-managed oil tanker
  by Worthy News Staff on August 5, 2021 at 12:38 am

  Accusing the Iranian regime of attacking an Israeli-managed oil tanker off the coast of Oman last week, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has called on the United Nations Security Council to respond to what he described as Iran’s “destabilizing actions,” Ynet News reports.

• US intensifies strikes on al-Qaeda-affiliated targets in Somalia
  by Worthy News Staff on August 5, 2021 at 12:34 am

  The US is intensifying counter-terrorism airstrikes against al-Qaeda affiliates who have increased their attacks in Somalia since the withdrawal of hundreds of American troops this year, Bloomberg News reports. The US Africa Command has confirmed that airstrikes were carried out on July 20 and 23 and on Aug. 1.

• Cuba report: At least 1,000 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention since outbreak of protests
  by Worthy News Staff on August 4, 2021 at 10:10 pm

  The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) has reported that since the July 11 outbreak of nationwide protests in Cuba, the communist government has carried out at least 1,745 repressive actions against protestors, of which 1,103 were some type of arbitrary detention. The OCDH said the published figures are not definitive as the collection of data has been hindered by repressive government actions.

• Europe: Thousands protest COVID-19 restrictions mandatory vaccination policies in Italy, France, Greece
  by Worthy News Staff on August 4, 2021 at 3:06 am

  Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Italy, France, and Greece over the weekend to protest against mandatory vaccination policies and overall COVID-19 restrictions, DW reports.

• Leading Belarussian Activist Found Dead In Ukraine
  by Worthy News Staff on August 4, 2021 at 2:58 am

  The head of a group helping people fleeing Belarus has been found dead near his home in neighboring Ukraine, officials said Monday. Vitaly Shishov's body was found hanged in a park in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv a day after he failed to return from a jog, according to police.

• Iran-backed forces said behind ‘potential hijack’ in Gulf of Oman
  by Worthy News Staff on August 4, 2021 at 2:42 am

  Iranian-backed forces have taken control of a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, reports said late Tuesday in an incident British authorities described as “a potential hijack.”

• U.S., Afghan air force unleash massive airstrikes as Taliban threaten key cities
  by Worthy News Staff on August 3, 2021 at 1:50 am

  The Afghan air force on Monday pounded the Taliban with repeated airstrikes in an effort to keep insurgent fighters from capturing key cities in southern and western Afghanistan, officials said, as the battle for the country’s future moves from the rural countryside toward major population centers.

• ‘Greatest cover-up of all time’: House GOP presents evidence of COVID-19 origins, Wuhan lab leak
  by Worthy News Staff on August 3, 2021 at 1:48 am

  The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said in a report Monday that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in August or early September 2019 and that Chinese officials took part in “the greatest coverup of all time.”

• Australia Using Army For COVID Lockdown After Philippines
  by Worthy News Staff on August 2, 2021 at 10:51 pm

  Australia’s government sent the army Monday to help enforce strict lockdowns in Sydney, where it claims many COVID-19 cases were recorded.