内容摘要：The negotiations grew tense amid disagreements between wealthy and developing countries with the latter feeling cut off from access to vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The negotiations grew tense amid disagreements between wealthy and developing countries with the latter feeling cut off from access to vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the National Election Commission, some 44.4 million people in the country of 52 million are eligible to vote. On election day, which is a public holiday, polling stations will open at 6am (21:00 GMT) and close at 8pm (11:00 GMT).Counting will begin immediately and the winner will be known that evening or in the early hours of the following day. The candidate who receives the most votes will be deemed the winner, even if they don’t win 50 percent of the votes.

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, thousands ofpeople made the long journey to south Gaza, many walking tens of kilometres in the scorching summer heat to reach a newly established aid distribution centre run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).Among them was Walaa Abu Sa’da (35), mother of three children who decided to go to Rafah by herself.

“My children were on the verge of starving. No milk, no food, not even baby formula. They cried day and night, and I had to beg neighbours for scraps,” Abu Sa’da toldWhile the previous United Nations-led distribution network operated about 400 sites across the Strip, the

, guarded by armed private security contractors working for a US company, has set up only four “mega-sites” for Gaza’s population of about two million Palestinians.

Three of GHF’s distribution sites are in Rafah, situated within areas where the Israeli military has issued evacuation warnings. The fourth site is in Gaza City, near the boundary with Deir el-Balah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering. None of the distribution points are located north of the Netzarim Corridor.Skybenko acknowledged that corporate boycotts may also have unintended consequences, such as funnelling those who lose their jobs into the army.

“It’s a complicated matter. [Each company] has to look at harms versus benefits and exit responsibly,” she said.For many Russians, though, the corporate exodus is not a question of ethics or human rights, but quality of life.

Vladislav is an entrepreneur in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, about four hours' drive from Ukraine's Mariupol, much of which has been destroyed by Russian forces.Despite Rostov-on-Don’s proximity to the front lines, the situation in the city is relatively calm.