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Kremlin's spokesman said Monday that UN aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhovka dam collapse
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Sudan has been rocked by fighting for over two months as the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battle for control of the country
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UN cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin
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The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded in Paris
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A report by UN showed that after years of steady decline, cholera is making a devastating comeback and targeting the world's most vulnerable communities
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WHO Covid vaccine composition advisory group has recommended that vaccine makers drop the ancestral strain
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WHO has called for caution when deploying large language model tools generated by artificial intelligence
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Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates of preterm birth, and preterm babies in these regions face the highest mortality risk.
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Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to accelerate climate action with deeper, faster emissions cuts
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday that it is necessary to "choose a third way" to build peace for the war
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As Syrians were trapped beneath the rubble, a broken UN system was held hostage by the Assad regime
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The ‘paralysed’ and ‘dysfunctional’ UNSC does not reflect today’s realities.
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The 1M1B Activate Impact Summit gives an opportunity to young future leaders to meet and network with leaders from UN, large corporations and civil society etc.
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Addressing the UNSC Arria Formula Meeting, Counsellor Madhu Sudan said India has direct stakes in ensuring the return of peace and stability to the country, given its position as a contiguous neighbour and long-standing partner of Afghanistan.
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New Delhi: India is projected to surpass China as the worlds most populous country in 2023, according to a UN report. More than half of the projected increase in global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania. Disparate growth rates among […]
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London: Just days after saying that the Covid lab leak theory needs “further investigations”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has privately confided to a senior European politician that the pandemic originated from China’s infamous Wuhan lab, according to a report. According to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the most likely explanation was a catastrophic […]
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United Nations: The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report. “The largest cost-of-living crisis of the 21st century has come when people and countries have a limited capacity to cope,” said the second report of the Global Crisis Response Group […]
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By Pramod K Nayar Imagining a world without humans, a fictional character says: “It’s not the end of the world at all. It’s only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan’t be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.” This would […]
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New Delhi: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday said his country will invest $42 billion in India over the next five years in a deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade. Kishida met his counterpart, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi during his maiden visit to India since assuming office. The two leaders held […]
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Kyiv: Russian forces stepped up their attacks on crowded urban areas on Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city and Kyiv’s main TV tower in what Ukraine’s president called a blatant campaign of terror. “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed after the bloodshed on the square in Kharkiv. Ukrainian […]