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Venezuela to open borders with Colombia
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], Jun 8 (ANI): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that he plans to reopen the country's borders with Colombia on Saturday (local time).
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European countries donate more than USD 5 mn to North Korea
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 22 (ANI): Switzerland donated about USD five million in humanitarian assistance to North Korea in a bid to improve the health and nutrition condition in the impoverished country that is facing its worst drought in decades, a United Nations data divulged on Wednesday.
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UN grants sanctions exemption for humanitarian aid to North Korea
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 21 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday granted sanctions exemption to allow the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to carry out aid programs in North Korea to improve the health and nutrition of people in the impoverished country.
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UN threatens to suspend food aid to Yemen
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Sanaa [Yemen], May 21 (ANI): United Nations on Monday warned that humanitarian aid to war-torn Yemen could be suspended if Houthi rebels controlling the region do not comply with the accord signed last year and stop diversion of food supplies.
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S Korea to hold talks with North on business people's trip to Kaesong indu
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [North Korea], May 20 (ANI): South Korea has said that it will hold discussions with North Korea to provide humanitarian aid and allow business people to visit a shuttered joint industrial complex in the communist nation.
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South Korea to provide $8 mn humanitarian aid to North Korea
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], May 17 (ANI): South Korea on Friday said it would provide USD eight million as humanitarian aid to help North Korea's malnourished children and pregnant women, as the communist country faces severe drought and a food crisis caused by its worst harvest in decades.
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Mike Pence says Venezuelan President 'must go'
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 6 (ANI): Vice President of the United States Mike Pence on Friday said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "must go", owing to the "suffering he has brought" to the people of that country.
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Iran accuses US of restricting humanitarian aid from reaching flood-affect
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Apr 4 (ANI): Iran on Wednesday accused the United States of restricting the flow of humanitarian aid provided by other countries from reaching flood-hit parts of the country.
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Red Cross to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela in April
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Caracas [Venezuela], Mar 30 (ANI): Venezuelan Opposition leader Juan Guaido on Friday (local time) announced that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies will be delivering humanitarian aid to the crisis-stricken country next month.
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US announces additional humanitarian aids for Afghanistan
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 27 (ANI): The United States on Tuesday granted more than USD 61 million additional humanitarian aid to war-torn Afghanistan to meet the needs of vulnerable communities, displaced persons and returning refugees across Afghanistan.
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UN allows sanctions exemption for humanitarian aid to N. Korea
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], Mar 25 (ANI): In a temporary relief to North Korea, the United Nations has waived sanctions to agencies providing humanitarian assistance, including food security, access to clean water and improving children's health, to enter the communist country.
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Cyclone Idai: India diverts 3 naval ships to Beira to provide humanitarian
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): In the wake of Cyclone Idai which ravaged South African nations of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing as many as 100, India diverted three naval ships to the port city of Beira in Mozambique to provide immediate humanitarian aid and disaster relief
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