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UN chief says world continues on 'fast track to climate disaster'
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 5 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that time is running out for countries, corporations and others to adopt critical measures to reverse greenhouse gas emissions, but the crisis can be averted primarily by substituting renewable energy sou
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UN says no request received yet from US to remove Russia from Human Rights
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations has received no request from the US to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council, Paulina Kubiak, spokeswoman for the General Assembly president, said on Monday.
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WHO suspension for Covaxin supply only for UN agencies: Sources
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): The World Health Organization's (WHO) suspension of supplies of Covaxin of the Bharat Biotech supply is not related to safety or efficacy issues but only to supply for United Nations agencies, sources said.
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Over 90 migrants killed in Mediterranean boat accident: UN
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 100 migrants died in the Mediterranean waters after the boat carrying them from Libya got shipwrecked, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.
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UN Palestinian refugee agency faces worsening financial plight amid Ukrain
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Gaza [Palestine], April 4 (ANI/Xinhua): The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is facing a worsening financial plight amid the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, a senior official said on Sunday.
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UN chief calls for probe in killing of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 4 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged on Sunday to conduct an independent probe of the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kyiv.
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New Zealand to support rural Afghans with agricultural inputs, cash aid
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 4 (ANI): New Zealand is funding with USD 2 million a new project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide agricultural inputs and cash aid to 94,500 people from farming communities in the provinces of Kunduz, Nangarhar, Parwan
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Russia requests UN Security Council meet on Kyiv's 'provocation in Bucha'
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 4 (ANI): Russian First Deputy Envoy to UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Sunday that Moscow has requested a UN Security Council meeting for Monday, claiming the "provocation of Ukrainian radicals" in Bucha.
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Ukraine unable to defuse its mines in Black Sea, shifted task to NATO: Rus
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): Ukraine is unable to defuse its own mines drifting in the Black Sea and has passed this task on to NATO, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov said on Sunday.
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Ban on girls' education damaging entire Afghanistan, says UN chief
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 3 (ANI): Expressing concern at the Taliban's decision to ban girls' education in Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that this is an unjustifiable violation of equal rights and it will damage the entire country.
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ARA FC, YWC post victories against Golazo FC, Guwahati City FC
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): ARA FC and YWC remained in the hunt to make it to the IWL, as they notched up victories against Golazo FC and Guwahati City FC at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
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Over 60 foreign ships remain blocked in Ukrainian ports
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 60 foreign ships are unable to leave Ukrainian ports because of the threat of shelling and mines, the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said.
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