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New York: The UN Secretary-General on Friday strongly condemned Friday’s terrorist attack by a Palestinian man outside a synagogue in a Jerusalem neighbourhood which has left at least seven Israelis dead, and three others injured.
New York: Nearly two years on from Myanmar’s brutal military coup against the democratically-elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis, undergoing a wholesale regression in human rights, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
Washington/UNI: French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will continue to maintain dialogue with Moscow amid Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Islamabad: Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said Allah (Islamic deity) is responsible for the country's development and prosperity.
Jerusalem: At least seven people died in a terror attack at a synagogue in Israel's East Jerusalem region on Friday, media reports said.
Manila: The Philippines government has said it is 'vigilantly monitoring' the developments in the South China Sea and also probing the recent incident where a China Coast Guard ship allegedly harassed local fishermen near a Filipino-occupied shoal, media reports said.
Swat: The members of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) staged rallies in different districts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region on Wednesday over the acquittal of former SSP of Malir district Rao Anwar in Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case, media reports said.
Gilgit: Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Syed Mehdi Shah on Wednesday discussed the issue of financial crisis faced by his region with Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal and sought release of funds by the federal government of Pakistan.
New York: The head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday underlined the need to achieve gender equality globally and fight hate speech, particularly that which targets women and girls online.
New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the fight against terrorism will never succeed if we perpetuate the “denial and destruction” of human rights.
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean “can and must step up” to tackle rising levels of hunger, poverty and inequality, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, said on Wednesday.
New York: Some 21.6 million people in Yemen – that’s two-thirds of the population – are going to need some kind of humanitarian assistance and protection services during the course of 2023, according to the UN’s Humanitarian Response plan published on Wednesday.
New York: Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 70 per cent of the population now in need of humanitarian aid, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday.
New York: The UN must present “a united front” in the fight for women’s rights in Afghanistan, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said after returning from a two-week country visit spanning several continents.
The court order closing down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is “yet another blow to human rights and civic space in the country”, said a Spokesperson for the UN rights office, OHCHR on Thursday.
Islamabad: The foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) touched a nine-year low figure of $3.678 billion during the week ended on Jan 20, media reports said.
Port-au-Prince: Police officers, protesting in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, have attacked the city's airport and besieged Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the Radio Tele Metronome broadcaster reported on Thursday.
Islamabad: Pakistani rupee has marked its biggest single-day decline in more than two decades, media reports said.
Washington: The United States killed a key Islamic State operative during a nighttime assault in northern Somalia, a senior administration official said.
Washington/IBNS: A 23-year-old Indian-origin woman has died after being struck by a Seattle police patrol vehicle in United States' South Lake Union, the Seattle police department said in a statement.
Islamabad: Pakistan's currency Thursday fell to a record low of Rs 255 against the US dollar, according to local media reports.
London: Evil gangs are currently ordering dinghies online from China to ferry migrants across the Channel to the UK, media reports said on Wednesday.
Islamabad: The Pakistani government is fearing that it might lose popularity ahead of the general polls which is keeping it away from finalising a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that could stabilise the economy.
New York: Top US investment management firms are currently engaged in hiring in Europe as China's earlier followed strict Zero COVID policy and rising geopolitical tensions have pushed them to redouble their search for growth outside China, media reports said.
Islamabad: The Pakistani textile sector suffered a financial loss of $70 million after the day-long countrywide power breakdown on Monday, media reports said on Wednesday.
Islamabad: A large region of Pakistan is facing shortage in essential supply of emergency medicines and surgical items at a time when the country is also battling a financial crisis.
New York: Haiti’s protracted political and humanitarian crisis – marked by spiking levels of gang-related violence and a badly struggling national police force – are reversing crucial security and development strides made since the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the senior UN representative in Port-au-Prince told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Manila: A Philippine air force plane has crashed in the province of Bataan, killing two pilots, Philippine newspaper Inquirer reported on Wednesday, citing the police.
Wellington/UNI: Chris Hipkins was sworn in as the new New Zealand Prime Minister on Wednesday succeeding Jacinda Ardern, who resigned less than one week ago.
New York: Fewer victims of people trafficking are being identified, even as the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises are increasing their vulnerability, a new report released on Tuesday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found.
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