6. Mardan firm wins award for solid waste disposal
• Water and Sanitation Services Company, Mardan, has won the best company award in solid waste management for the year 2021.
• Relevant officials told on May 22, 2022 that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Dr Shehzad Bangash had presented the award to the company’s chief executive officer Eng Amir Khan during a special ceremony held in Abbottabad.
• Chief Commissioner Right to Public Services Commission Mohammad Saleem Khan, who was also present on the occasion, had ranked the Mardan sanitation firm first in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for safe disposal of waste
7. World health assembly begins in Geneva
• Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first in-person World Health Assembly (WHA) began in Geneva on May 22, 2022.
• The Pakistani delegation is being led by federal Minister for Health Abdul Qadir Patel. The delegation will share the vision `Health for Peace and Peace for Health` with the participants of the assembly.
• According to a statement, issued by the Ministry of National Health Services, the 75th WHA is being attended by representatives of 194 countries.
• `Abdul Qadir Patel is attending the assembly with a high-level delegation which includes Secretary Health Amir Ashraf Khawaja and Director General Health Rana Safdar. The delegation will debrief the assembly on Pakistan`s Covid-19 response,` it stated
8. Britain calls for EU action on Northern Ireland
• Britain has insisted it is up to the European Union to unblock political paralysis in Northern Ireland, after assuring a delegation from the US Congress of its `cast-iron` commitment to peace in the province.
• The UK government has provoked anger on both sides of the Atlantic with a plan to overhaul the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, a trading arrangement that was agreed as part of its Brexit divorce deal with the EU.
• London is bidding to placate pro-UK unionists who are refusing to join a new power-sharing government in Belfast led for the first time by pro-Irish nationalists until the protocol is reformed
9. US plane brings tons of badly needed baby formula from Germany
• A US military plane bringing several tons of much needed baby formula from Germany landed on May 22, 2022 at an airport in Indiana as authorities scramble to address a critical shortage.
• Scarcity of medical-grade baby formula caused by production problems and supply-chain issues has created grave problems for thousands of parents whose infants, allergic to cow`s milk protein, rely on it, sending them in frantic searches for the product.
• The cargo plane took off from the US air base at Ramstein, Germany, carrying more than 70,000 pounds of powdered formula, the White House said.
• President Joe Biden posted about the flight on Twitter from Japan, where he is on a five-day Asia trip
10. Colonel shot dead in Tehran; Guards blame US for attack
• An Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday, the Guards said, blaming his `assassination` on assailants linked to the United States and its allies.
• The killing of Colonel Sayyad Khodai is the most high profile murder announced by Iran since the 2020 killing of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
• Iran had accused Israel of masterminding the attack on Fakhrizadeh`s convoy near Tehran.
• On May 22, 2022, Iran`s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said that `elements linked to global arrogance` a reference to the US and its allies, including Israel were responsible for the `terrorist act` that claimed Khodai`s life
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