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Bangkok, Mar 25 (EFE/EPA).-Thousands of foreign visitors to Thailand on Wednesday tried to return to their countries, before the state of the state of emergency decreed by the government to combat COVID-19 will come into effect on Mar 26. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL). FOOTAGE SHOWS B-ROLLS OF THE DEPARTURE HALL AND IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINTS AT THE SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape declares a 14-day state of emergency in the capital Port Moresby, after 15 people were killed in riots as crowds looted and burned shops, adding that more than 1,000 troops are on standby "to step in wherever necessary" under the emergency decree. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization declares that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency, almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading across the world. Following falling cases numbers, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells an online press conference he is "pleased to declare" that he had accepted the advice of the UN agency's emergency committee on mpox to lift its highest level of alarm. SOUNDBITE
The Covid-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, says World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. SOUNDBITE
La Paz, Aug 9 (EFE).- Social organizations related to the Government of Bolivian President Luis Arce declared themselves in "emergency" on Monday in the face of what they consider to be attempts to "destabilize" opposition sectors.Workers, peasants and indigenous sectors issued a statement together with the president of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS), former president Evo Morales, in response to the mobilization of opposition civic groups who, a week earlier, demanded the resignation of the Attorney General and the freedom of those they consider to be 'political prisoners.' (Camera: GABRIEL ROMANO).SHOT LIST: THE PRESIDENT OF THE MOVEMENT FOR SOCIALISM (MAS) FORMER BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT EVO MORALES, TOGETHER WITH WORKER, PEASANT, AND INDIGENOUS SECTORS, ISSUE A STATEMENT IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).