However, its resurgence in China is threatening to reverse the gains. Its zero-COVID policy failed to tame the disease and this has triggered alerts and restrictions against travellers from the Asian giant by many countries. COVID-19 will remain a deadly disease there and elsewhere for years;by working together however, the world can defeat the virus and prevent a return to strict restrictions.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the effects of climate change will soon become irreversible. But there were a few bright spots. In August, United States President, Joe Biden, signed into law, the Inflation Reduction Act, heralded as the most important step taken thus far to reduce the emission of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change.
In response, Seoul and Tokyo have ramped up their defences, focused on missile defence, pre-emptive strikes, and a strategy Seoul calls “massive punishment and retaliation.”With China and Russia blocking UN resolutions to sanction North Korea, the US needs to strengthen coordination with Japan and South Korea to contain the hermit nation.
The military, also known as Tatmadaw, burned down over 38,400 houses across the country between February 2021 and August 2022, according to the research group, Data for Myanmar. In Iran, the protests witnessed against the morality police have refused to slacken, challenging the rule of the cruel leaders of the Islamic Republic, who in 2022 saw the most significant challenge to their rule since they came to power in 1979. Many citizens have been killed, and thousands imprisoned or tortured.
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