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Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
The Assistant Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that more than 100 "threats to life" were prevented by a huge global crime sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by law enforcement agencies, during a press conference at Europol's HQ in The Hague. SOUNDBITE
Sendai, Japan, Mar 6 (EFE, (Camera: Antonio Hermosín).- The Arahama school in northeastern Japan served as a refuge to save the lives of 320 students, teachers and others from the tsunami that swept through the area in 2011. Today the building honors the victims and pays tribute to the school’s exemplary response to such a major catastrophe.Led by school officials, the students ran up the stairs to the roof of the four-story waterfront building after hearing the tsunami warning following the huge 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sendai on that fateful day nearly 10 years ago.FOOTAGE OF THE ARAHAMA SCHOOL IN SENDAI, HAPAN. SOUNDBITES OF CHIKAKO SHOUJI, SURVIVOR AND VOLUNTEER AT THE ARAHAMA SCHOOL:"After the tsunami alarm sounded, I picked up my mother, who was at my house, and then we drove to a shelter further inland. We narrowly escaped, because there was a lot of traffic on the road and it only took 10 minutes between the alarm sounded and the tsunami arrived." "I was born here, and when I was a child, my grandfather who had also always lived here, told me that tsunamis would never happen here even if there were earthquakes. I believed him."
Lima, Aug 13 (EFE).- (Camera: Fernando Gimeno)The cinchona tree helped to save millions of lives when its bark was used to produce the anti-malarial medication quinine. The tropical Andean forest plant has been used by native people for centuries for its medicinal properties and was harvested almost to exhaustion in colonial times to treat malaria.Now hydroxychloroquine, a synthetic modification of quinine, is being used as an unproven treatment for Covid-19, Peru’s national tree is under threat of extinction again.FOOTAGE OF THE CINCHONA.SOUNDBITES OF ALEJANDRO GÓMEZ, FOREST ENGINEER AND CINCHONA INVESTIGATOR.Translation:"Let's unite our efforts, unite our efforts and especially give children and the youth the basic knowledge. That's why I always use this saying: What we don't know, we don't love, and what we don't love we don't defend. If we know of it from a young age, we're going to love it and defend it even in adulthood."
If a cat has nine lives, this lucky kitten certainly lost one of on Thursday after becoming stranded in front of oncoming traffic on a Kaliningrad highway. It's not exactly clear how the little kitty got on the highway in the first place, but the footage shows at the tiny feline manages to evade several vehicles before a good samaritan stops on the highway.
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