UNSC condemns Pulwama terror attack, urges countries to cooperate
Updated : 8 hours, 13 min ago IST
New York [US] Feb 22 (ANI): United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday strongly condemned the "heinous and cowardly" Pulwama suicide terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed and asked all countries to cooperate with India in its efforts to bring to justice the perpetrator
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UN condemns Pulwama terror attack, calls for bringing perpetrators
Updated : 1 week ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): The United Nations on Thursday (local time) strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district which claimed as many as 40 lives of security personnel and called for bringing the perpetrators behind the attack to justice.
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43% of N Korea's population food insecure: UN
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Pyongyang [DPR Korea], Feb 13 (ANI): A United Nations report, on Wednesday, revealed that around 43 per cent of North Korea's population is "food insecure", with one out of five children facing "chronic malnutrition".
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South Africa to assume African Union's chairship in 2020
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
Adis Ababa [Ethiopia], Feb 10 (ANI): South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa, will be taking over as the Chair of the African Union (AU) in 2020 after Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi completes his term.
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Millions of tons of plastic waste could be turned into clean fuels
Updated : 2 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): According to the United Nations, more than 8 million tons of plastic flow into the oceans each year.
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Guteress calls for collaborative global action on female genital m
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called for a collaborative global action against the female genital mutilation, an abhorrent human rights violation affecting women and girls around the world.
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Al-Qaida sees Afghanistan as safe haven for its leadership: UN Mon
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
United Nations, Feb 6 (ANI): Terror group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that backs Al Qaida still has its strongholds in Afghanistan where near about 2,500 to 4,000 militants are positioned in eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan and Laghman, and Al-Qaida continues t
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Khashoggi's killing: UN probe wraps up in Turkey
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 3 (ANI): The United Nation's (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, has wrapped up investigations into deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi's death in Turkey.
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UN: Ethnic strife killed nearly 900 people in DR Congo
Updated : 3 weeks, 1 day ago IST
Kinshasa [DR Congo], Jan 30 (ANI): The United Nations has said that nearly 900 people lost their lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month due to ethnic strife. It said that 15 communal burial sites and 43 single graves have been found near the town of Yumbi.
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UN Envoy gets no reply from Saudi Consulate on journalist Khashogg
Updated : 3 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, who will be conducting an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, on Sunday, said that she has not yet received any reply fr
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India's growth to accerate from 7.4% to 7.6% in FY20: UN
Updated : 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi, Jan 24 (ANI): With robust private consumption and 7.4 per cent GDP growth rate in current fiscal year, the Indian economy is expected to accelerate at a rate of 7.6 per cent in 2019-20, according to a report by the United Nations.
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Syria mulls strike on Tel-Aviv airport as retaliatory measure
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Damascus [Syria], Jan 23 (ANI): The Permanent Representative of the Syrian Mission to the United Nations has said that Syria is mulling over attacking Israel's Tel Aviv airport in retaliation to the recent airstrike carried out by Israel on Damascus airport.
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