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Beijing: The Chinese Embassy in the Central African Republic has asked citizens to avoid travelling outside Bangui city after nine nationals were killed during an attack by militants at a goldmine.
Paris: Over 850 protesters have been detained in France during demonstrations against the recently passed pension reform, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Kampala: The Ugandan Parliament has passed a bill that would criminalise people who identify themselves as LGBTQ+, among other things, media reports said.
Oslo: The Norwegian Justice Ministry said that government officials should not install TikTok or Telegram applications on their work devices due to security concerns.
Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have banned celebration of Nowruz in the central Daikundi province.
New York: The UN Special Envoy for Yemen announced on Monday the planned release of 887 conflict-related detainees from all sides along with other gains after concluding 10 days of negotiations to address the devastating eight-year-old conflict.
New York: Raising alarms that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is heading in the “wrong direction”, a senior UN official appealed to the UN Security Council for unity on Monday, following a spate of missile launches in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Hundreds of Pakistani Americans recently gathered outside the White House in Washington on Sunday and demanded an end to the government's action against former PM Imran Khan.
Karachi: In a suspected target attack incident, a religious scholar was shot dead in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar locality on Tuesday, media reports said.
Paris: Seventy people were detained in Paris on Monday evening during protests following the adoption of pension reform by France's National Assembly (lower house of parliament), BFMTV reported, citing a police source.
New York: “The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past four decades” have been committed since the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran said on Monday.
Ottawa: Halifax Regional Police said a student was taken into custody after stabbing two teachers at the Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford in Canada’s Province of Nova Scotia.
New York: A Japanese initiative to colourize photos of Hiroshima survivors, taken before the war, has been hailed by the UN as a way to breathe new life into conversations about peace, and a world without nuclear weapons.
Paris/UNI: Seventy people were detained in Paris on Monday evening during protests following the adoption of a pension reform by France's National Assembly (lower house of parliament), BFMTV reported, citing a police source.
Kabul: Afghanistan's Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock has urged the United Nations to support by providing storage facilities for wheat as the country continues to struggle with its economic situation, media reports said.
Kabul: Several Afghanistani parents and students have urged the Taliban authorities, the group which has been forcefully ruling the country since August 2021, to reopen secondary schools for girls, media reports said.
The Pakistani electronic media regulator has imposed a ban on Bol News for live coverage of clashes between law enforcement personnel and the PTI workers recently.
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, an Australia-born media mogul and an American businessman, is engaged to marry for the fifth time at the age of 92.
Finland has been declared the happiest country in the world for the sixth year in a row, as per the annual World Happiness Report.
Toronto: A large number of Indian students are facing the risk of being deported from Canada to India after it was found that their study permits were based on alleged fake documentation prepared by an agent in India.
New York: The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered deal aimed at supplying markets with food and fertilizer amid global shortages and rising prices, exacerbated by the Ukraine war, was extended on Saturday, the day it was due to expire.
New York: Following their return from a fact-finding visit to Haiti, a group of senior United Nations officials and representatives of NGOs issued an urgent call on Saturday, for increased access and resources to reach people in desperate need.
New York: The 2023 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67), the largest UN gathering on gender equality, successfully wrapped up on Saturday, with Member States calling for a full and equal participation of women and girls in the development of digital technologies.
Colombo: Sri Lankan central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe told media on Sunday that the country's "dollar crisis" is over, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to approve a 2.9 billion U.S. dollar bailout package for the country on Monday.
Cox's Bazar: Inclement weather has forced the suspension of movement of passenger vessels on the Teknaf- St Martin's route, leaving at least 500 holidaymakers stranded on Saint Martin's Island of Bangladesh, media reports said.
Tokyo: The suspected ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Sunday landed outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone, Japanese media report.
Madaripur: At least 19 people died as a bus crashed into ditch in Madaripur region of Bangladesh, media reports said on Monday.
Islamabad: The Pakistan Police on Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) — including terrorism charges — against PTI Chairman and former PM Imran Khan and more than a dozen PTI leaders for allegedly attacking police officers and causing chaos outside the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC), media reports said.
Minnesota/US: A nuclear power plant in US's Minnesota discharged a minimum of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water in November, which was not disclosed to the public until Thursday.
Ottawa/UNI: A train has derailed in the city of Port Colborne, located in the south of Canada’s Ontario province, the city authorities inform.
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