In December 2023, The FDA granted approval for the first gene therapies to treat a genetic blood disorder “Sickle Cell Disease” characterized by abnormal hemoglobin production.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is an Emirati politician who is the minister of industry and advanced technology of the United Arab Emirates. He is also head of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state-owned oil company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and the president of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference COP28.

Overworking is fatal, and it leads to the death of almost three million people worldwide every year. A report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) has shed light on how employment is fast evolving as a major cause of death, especially among men

The United States and Sweden on 5 December 2023, signed a first-ever defense cooperation agreement that will strengthen military ties and permit bilateral exercises. The defense pact paves the way for “US forces to operate in Sweden, including the legal status of US military personnel, access to deployment areas (and) prepositioning of military materiel,” a Pentagon statement said. The two “agreed on the importance of continued robust support to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s illegal and full-scale invasion,” it added.

The International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (5 December), more commonly referred to as International Volunteer Day (IVD), is an international observance mandated by the UN General Assembly in 1985. It offers an opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations and individual volunteers to promote volunteerism, encourage governments to support volunteer efforts and recognize volunteer contributions to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at local, national and international levels.

Kerem Shalom border crossing is a border crossing at the junction of two border sections: one between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and one between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is used by trucks carrying goods from Israel or Egypt to the Gaza Strip. After weeks of pressure, Israel on 15 December 2023 approved the temporary delivery of aid into Gaza via its Kerem Shalom border crossing. The opening would allow Israel to maintain its commitments to permit the entry of 200 trucks of aid per day, while Rafah could only handle half of that traffic.

2023 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup was the tenth edition of the ACC Under-19 Cup, a limited overs cricket tournament featuring eight under-19 teams. It was scheduled to be played between 8 to 17 December 2023. Originally, the tournament was scheduled in Pakistan but was shifted to the United Arab Emirates later.

As many as 118 countries DUBAI, signed a pledge to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 during the ongoing COP¬28 climate summit The pledge committed to tripling worldwide installed renewable energy generation capacity to at least 11,000 gigawatts(GW) and to double the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements to more than 4% by 2030.

10 December 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). his landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 and sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

Iran and Cuba vowed 4 December 2023 to strengthen relation and stand together against sanctions imposed on them by the United States. “What can neutralize the sanctions is the exchange of capacities between the two countries,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said during a joint statement with his visiting Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Following numerous delays and intense negotiations, the UN Security Council finally adopted a significantly diluted resolution on December 22, 2023, which calls for an immediate acceleration of aid deliveries to Gaza. But it falls short of demanding an urgent suspension of hostilities, as originally proposed in the UAE draft. Thirteen of the 15 council members vote in favour of the resolution, with no member state voting against it.

According to the World Malaria Report, India accounted for 66% of malaria cases in the World Health Organization’s South-East Asia region in 2022. India and Indonesia accounted for about 94% of all malaria deaths in the region last year, the World Health Organization said.

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vetoed a big European Union aid package for Kyiv on 15 December 2023 and said he could still halt Ukraine`s accession after EU leaders approved the start of lengthy membership talks. Leaders of all 27 EU states, except Hungary, agreed at a summit on Thursday to start accession talks with Ukraine despite Russia`s invasion of its neighbor, bypassing Orban`s grievances by getting him to leave the room.

In a pioneering development, the Biden administration has successfully concluded a pilot project for the implementation of “paperless visas,” signaling a potential departure from the conventional practice of stamping or pasting visas onto passport pages