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New York: The steep increase in the number of Rohingya refugees risking their lives to cross the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal last year is a reflection of their growing desperation, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
New York: The number of journalists killed worldwide significantly increased in 2022, following a decline over the previous three years, according to the United Nations’ culture agency (UNESCO).
Washington: US tech giant Microsoft is set to fire approximately 11,000 workers to address the impacts of a slowing world economy, Sky News reported.
Sydney: A flight, which was travelling from New Zealand to Sydney, landed safely after reporting mid-air engine trouble and issuing a mayday call, media reports said.
Kabul: Twitter account verifications bought by the Taliban appear to have been removed after several netizens expressed anger following the micro-blogging site's decision to give the special 'Blue Tick' mark to the Islamist rulers of the South Asian country.
Quetta: Gas supply to the Balochistan region of Pakistan was disrupted after a 12-inch diameter gas pipeline exploded, the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) said on Tuesday.
Kandahar: Former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees in the UK, Shabnam Nasimi, has said the Taliban chopped off the hands of four people at a stadium in Kandahar region of Afghanistan recently.
Dhaka/UNI: Russian vessel 'Ursa Major', bringing in material for Rooppur nuclear power plant, was turned away by Bangladesh due to a US embargo on that ship.
Colombo: China on Tuesday expressed its disapproval over a suggested visit of the Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka as it warned the island nation the trip could adversely affect the bilateral ties, media reported.
Kabul: The Taliban authorities of Afghanistan recently flogged in public nine people who were allegedly accused of committing “adultery and theft” in Kandahar.
Children from a dozen countries met with the President of the General Assembly and toured the United Nations on a federal holiday in the United States honouring the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martin Luther King Jr.
New York: The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned Russia’s attack on a large residential building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro at the weekend that has left at least 40 civilians dead, including three children, and at least 75 injured, with those figures likely to rise, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country.
Warring parties in Yemen should take advantage of the current absence of major fighting and use it to advance their talks towards peace, the top UN official in the country said on Monday in his latest briefing to the Security Council.
New York: Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13 in Pakistan, who are forced to marry and convert to Islam.
New York: Children’s rights must remain a priority and their voices should be heard and listened to, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Monday in Geneva.
New York: Finding a decent and well-paid job is likely to be harder this year, thanks to the continuing global economic downturn, the UN labour agency said on Monday.
Beijing: China's population dropped for the first time in decades in 2022, official data released by the country on Monday revealed.
Washington: US State Secretary Antony Blinken will visit China on February 5-6, Politico reported.
Beijing: China's economic state witnessed one of its slowest growths in several decades amid COVID-19 infection surge in recent times.
New York: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday listed Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under its ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.
Indianapolis/IBNS: A 56-year-old woman stabbed an 18-year-old Indiana University student multiple times in the head on a bus in Bloomington as the victim was Asian, New York Post reported.
Kathmandu/IBNS: In a heartbreaking incident, Anju Khatiwada, who joined Nepal's Yeti Airlines in 2010 and was the co-pilot of the ill-destined flight that crashed in Pokhara on Sunday, met the same fate as her husband, a pilot killed in a crash 16 years earlier.
Islamabad: A bar room firing incident inside the Peshawar High Court (PHC) bar room on Monday left ex-Supreme Court Bar Association president and senior lawyer Latif Afridi killed, media reports said.
Sicily: Italy's most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was 30 years on the run, has been arrested in Sicily, media reports said on Monday.
Kathmandu/Pokhara: The black box of the Yeti Airlines flight, which crashed in Pokhara on Sunday, has been recovered, media reports said on Monday.
Islamabad: The Pakistan foreign office on Friday said the official Twitter account of the Pakistan consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu was “hacked”, hours after a tweet was posted in support of Uyghur Muslims in China.
Kunming: The 11th Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the Bhutan-China Boundary Issues was held in Kunming city, China from Jan 10 to 13.
Washington/Kathmandu: The US government has mourned the loss of lives in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara city of Nepal.
Beijing: An explosion took place at a chemical plant in China's northeastern province of Liaoning on Sunday, Chinese media reported.
Kathmandu: All 72 people on board the Yeti Airlines flight, which crashed in Nepal on Sunday have died, airline spokesperson Pemba Sherpa confirmed.
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