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Dr. Hong met with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.

The President of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Leonel Fernandez Reyna, and Dr. Hong Tao-Tze turned the “Key of the World” together.

The event “Tai Ji Men’s Night of Ancient Culture, and the ceremony praying for blessing were held by Tai Ji Men at the Palace Theater in the City of Honolulu.

UNICEF is concerned about the situation of Haitian families being expelled from the United States border to Haiti.

According to UNICEF initial estimates, over 2 in 3 Haitian migrants who have been returned to Port-au-Prince are women and children. Some of them are newborn babies, with specific and immediate needs.

The United States said Monday that laws against “extremism” in Russia prevented opposition parties from a fair shot in parliamentary elections.

At least six people were killed in the Russian city of Perm after a gunman opened fire at a university Monday. Many more were reported wounded.

As many as 10,000 migrants, many from Haiti, are in a makeshift camp under a bridge that connects the U.S. and Mexico near Del Rio, Texas. The number is growing, according to officials on the ground.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been made aware of correspondences being circulated by scammers (acting under the name of Capital Finance, Inc. London), falsely notifying recipients of such correspondences that they have been selected as a beneficiary/winner of a US$1 million lottery compensation prize payment for losses and damages suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Millions of people in Myanmar are facing food insecurity, and the world’s largest humanitarian organization warned Friday that a lack of funding is preventing it from providing adequate aid.

European Union ministers will hold emergency talks on what they view as a Belarusian pressure campaign of illegal migration against EU nations, according to Agence France-Presse.