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Pakistan hasn't done enough to be white-listed by FATF
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 15 (ANI): Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force's plenary meeting scheduled to be held later this month, many countries said that Pakistan has not done enough to be "white-listed" for terror-sponsoring which makes Islamabad's prospects of exiting the grey li
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WHO gives AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines emergency use approval
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 16 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday (local time) gave emergency use approval (EUA) to two versions of AstraZeneca-Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccines, allowing these shots to be rolled out globally through COVAX. The vaccines are being produc
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Ajai Malhotra becomes first Indian chairperson of Advisory Committee at Hu
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 15 (ANI): Ajai Malhotra has become the first Indian to be elected as the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, said the Permanent Mission of India at United Nations, Geneva on Monday.
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China, Russia pull out from UNHRC resolution on Myanmar
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): China and Russia on Friday pulled out from a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on the situation in Myanmar following the military coup on February 1, reported NHK World.
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WHO open to all hypotheses on coronavirus origins: Tedros
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish a preliminary report next week, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
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Post-Covid digital economy must include persons with disabilities: ILO
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 12 (ANI): Advances in the digital economy significantly accelerated by Covid-19 pandemic are creating unprecedented opportunities to build a more inclusive world of work for the more than one billion people with disabilities globally, according to a new report
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COVID-19 cases globally declined by 17 pc last week
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 10 (ANI): The number of new COVID-19 cases reported across the world have declined, for the fourth week in a row, as per the data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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East Asian economies drive global trade recovery: UNCTAD
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 10 (ANI): Led by trade in goods, global trade recovered in the last quarter of 2020, reducing its overall decline for the year to about 9 per cent, according to UNCTAD's new Global Trade Update published on Wednesday.
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