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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

UN cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin

The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded in Paris

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

WHO Covid vaccine composition advisory group has recommended that vaccine makers drop the ancestral strain

WHO has called for caution when deploying large language model tools generated by artificial intelligence

Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates of preterm birth, and preterm babies in these regions face the highest mortality risk.

Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to accelerate climate action with deeper, faster emissions cuts

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday that it is necessary to "choose a third way" to build peace for the war

As Syrians were trapped beneath the rubble, a broken UN system was held hostage by the Assad regime

The ‘paralysed’ and ‘dysfunctional’ UNSC does not reflect today’s realities.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kabul: The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the rights of Afghan women and girls are “under attack” and that they need the world body’s support and solidarity now more than ever. In a statement on Thursday, the OCHA said that girls and women in the war-torn nation are deprived […]