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COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber said the world has no time to spare. Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, and sea level rise all reached record highs in 2023, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released on Tuesday. The report, titled “State of the Global Climate 2023”,…
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The UN on Friday called for more financial support for aid operations in Sudan. United Nations, US: The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger. Some five million Sudanese could face calamitous food insecurity in coming months as a nearly yearlong war…
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UN warned that “civil order” was starting to collapse in Gaza Palestinian Territories: The United Nations warned Sunday that “civil order” was starting to collapse in Gaza after thousands of people ransacked its food warehouses. The UN relief agency for the Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said wheat, flour and other basic supplies had been pillaged at…
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The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli strikes had killed 7,703 people. (File) Geneva: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned on Saturday there was the potential for thousands more civilians to die as Israel presses a ground operation in Gaza. Israel’s army relentlessly hammered the territory on Saturday after…
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The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned on October 25 that without immediate deliveries of fuel it will soon have to sharply cut back relief operations across the Gaza Strip, which has been blockaded and hit by devastating Israeli airstrikes since Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel more than two weeks ago. The…
Israel is pounding Gaza with fiercest air strikes Geneva: Eleven workers with the UN Palestinian refugee agency have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Saturday, and five members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent have also been killed in the conflict, the organisations said on Wednesday. “We are…
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India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj on October 10 (local time) said that the G20 Summit held in New Delhi showcased the country’s commitment to “fostering a sense of global togetherness.” Editorial |India’s moment: on the G-20 Summit outcomes She highlighted various instances when India practised ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, which means the world…
Columbian President Gustavo Petro. File | Photo Credit: AP The Colombian government manipulated a video to alter the applause received by President Gustavo Petro during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Associated Press reviewed the video and was able to verify that it was altered. The recording released by…
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations (UN) nuclear chief on September 18 said he asked to meet Iran’s President on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to try to reverse Tehran’s “uncalled for” ban on “a very sizable chunk” of the agency’s inspectors. Rafael Grossi stressed…
A man cooks food at his home adjacent to railway track, as a train passes near the Daya Basti area in New Delhi on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. | Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV The report, ‘State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’ (SOFI) 2023, published last month, shows that while the cost of…
