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UN chief condemns suicide bombings in Iraq
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Thursday's deadly twin suicide bombings targeting civilians at a market in Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, said his spokesman.
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Concerned over precarious security situation in Central African Republic:
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New York [US], January 22 (ANI): Expressing serious concerns over the "precarious" security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR), India on Thursday called on all opposition groups in the African country to "cease hostilities" immediately and join the authorities in finding a peace
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Twitter locks account of Chinese Embassy in US over tweet on Uyghur women
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New York [US], January 21 (ANI): Twitter has blocked the account of Chinese Embassy in the US over its earlier tweet which claimed that Uyghur women in Xinjiang region are now "emancipated" and no longer "baby-making machines."
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India says ready to play 'constructive, meaningful role' in UNSC to end Sy
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New York [US], January 21 (ANI): Hoping that conflict in Syria will end completely, sooner than later, India on Wednesday said that it is ready to play a "constructive and meaningful" role in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) towards achieving that objective.
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UN launches global program to counter terrorist threats against vulnerable
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New York [US], January 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), in partnership with several other agencies, on Tuesday launched a global program on countering terrorist threats against vulnerable targets to help UN member states deal with this scourge.
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Study highlights genome altering can help to treat human retinal degenerat
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 20 (ANI): A study published in journal Human Gene Therapy shows that gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas frameworks, offer the possibility to address transformations causing inherited retinal degenerations, a leading cause of blindness.
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UN assists India's mammoth COVID-19 vaccine rollout
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New York [US], January 20 (ANI): India on January 16 began its mammoth coronavirus vaccine rollout by administering 207,229 shots on the first day with the help of hundreds of thousands of health workers who were trained and assisted by the UN agencies.
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Iran, six other nations lose right to vote in UNGA
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New York [US], January 19 (ANI): Iran and six other nations lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) because they have not paid their dues, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, reported Jerusalem Post.
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New York COVID-19 test positivity rate down to 8.29 pc
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New York [US], January 19 (ANI/Xinhua): New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average went down to 8.29 percent, compared with 8.6 percent two days earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Monday. He did not announce such a rate on Sunday.
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Developments in Arab world shaped our common history, says TS Tirumurti
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New York [US], January 18 (ANI): Noting the importance of ties between India and the Arab world, TS Tirumurti, Ambassador of India to the United Nations on Monday said that owing to its strategic location, developments in the Arab world have shaped our common history and continue to have
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Boeing orders lessen sting of weak commercial deliveries in 2020: Moody's
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New York [US], January 18 (ANI): After the US aerospace major Boeing recently announced it delivered 157 commercial aircraft for 2020, down from 380 in 2019 and 806 in 2018, Moody's Investors Service has said the recent orders mitigate the sting of lower deliveries in 2020.
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Study: Where COVID-19 hit hardest, sudden deaths outside the hospital incr
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Philadelphia [US], January 18 (ANI): A new study comparing the incidence of sudden deaths occurring outside the hospital across New York City's highly diverse neighbourhoods with the percentage of positive SARS-CoV-19 tests found that increased sudden deaths during the pandemic correlate to
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