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Grant special visas to Afghan staff at risk from Taliban: UK media urges P
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK] August 5 (ANI): A coalition of UK news organisations on Wednesday wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, demanding to provide special visas to "Afghan staff who have worked for the British media so that they and their families can le
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Thousands of people displaced in Afghanistan's Kandahar amid Taliban offen
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] July 27 (ANI): An average of over one hundred thousand people from 22,000 families has been displaced to secure areas of Kandahar city in Afghanistan according to survey cited by local journalists.
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Pandemic exacerbated crises caused by armed conflicts, Shringla at UNSC
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], July 16 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday said the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated humanitarian crises caused by armed conflicts that severely impact the lives of millions of innocent civilians.
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UN says half of Afghan population in need of humanitarian aid
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] July 12 (ANI): As Afghanistan continues to witness a surge in violence leading to a humanitarian crisis, half of the country's population is in need of humanitarian assistance and a third of children under five are facing acute malnutrition, informed a UN official.
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Pakistani garment workers faced worst 'wage theft' during COVID pandemic,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 12 (ANI): Amid COVID-19 crises in the country, Pakistan's garment workers were subjected to the highest wage theft in the Asian garment industry as most of its orders were canceled by various global brands, said a report.
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World Bank commits to support Haiti after President's death exacerbates po
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] July 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Bank has expressed its readiness to continue to support Haiti following President Jovenel Moise's assassination, which reignited the Caribbean nation's socio-economic and political crises.
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Sukhbir hits out at Amarinder over power crises in Punjab, says industries
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday slammed the Punjab government over the power crisis in the state and said industries are suffering huge losses amid the electricity crisis.
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Tigray Conflict clouds Ethiopia's 'historic' parliamentary election
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], June 22 (ANI): Amid a cascade of major crises in Ethiopia, Africa's second-most populous country, which left millions unable to vote, Ethiopian voters went to polls on Monday in a national election that has been held as a long-awaited emergence into a multi-party demo
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Taiwan nationals in Norway file lawsuit for being forced to register as 'C
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Oslo [Norway], June 10 (ANI): Battling an identity crisis, Taiwan nationals who have been legally fighting the Norwegian government over being forced to register as 'Chinese' instead of Taiwanese, have now taken the matter to European court of human rights.
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Bill Gates hopes Rome health summit's declaration to lay groundwork for CO
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 21 (ANI/Sputnik): Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday expressed his hope that the joint Rome Declaration, which is expected to be adopted at the G20 Global Health Summit, will provide principles of response to health crises, including pandemic pr
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Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high: UN report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels/Rome, May 6 (ANI): The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) has found.
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Oxygen crises resolved at Meerut hospital, district administration makes a
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 26 (ANI): A crisis was resolved at Meerut's KMC Hospital when the district administration arranged for the medical oxygen in the nick of time.
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