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UN chief calls for action to put out '5-alarm global fire'
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday raised five alarms for the world for 2022 and urged countries to forge a new, more hopeful and equal path at a time when "the only certainty is more uncertainty".
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UN chief condemns Saudi-led deadly airstrikes in Yemen's Saada city
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Friday's airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against a detention center in Yemen's Saada city.
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Security Council condemns Houthi attacks in UAE capital
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI): The members of the UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned Monday's "heinous terrorist attacks" in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as in other sites in Saudi Arabia.
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SA vs India, 2nd ODI: Hosts chase down 288-run target with ease to clinch
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Paarl [South Africa], January 21 (ANI): Hosts comfortably chased down 288-run target to register a seven-wicket win against visitors and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in 3-match ODI series here at the Boland Park on Friday.
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Japan, France express concern over progress in North Korean missile progra
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 21 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan and France on Friday expressed serious concern over the progress in the North Korean nuclear and missile program and urged Pyongyang to take concrete steps to implement the provisions of the UN Security Council resolutions.
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Taliban root cause of Afghanistan's troubles; people face most difficult s
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 21 (ANI): As people residing in Afghanistan face the horrors of Taliban atrocities since the fall of Kabul, an expert believes that the Taliban are the root cause of all of Afghanistan's troubles and under their rule people are facing the most difficult scenario
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UN provides USD 32 million cash aid to Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 21 (ANI): The United Nations has provided USD 32 million humanitarian aid in cash to Afghanistan on Thursday which was delivered to Afghanistan International Bank (AIB), local media reported.
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China, Russia block US bid to sanction North Korea at UN
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 21 (ANI): China and Russia have put on hold a US effort at the United Nations to impose sanctions on five North Korea in response to recent missile launches by Pyongyang, media reports said.
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Rights groups want UN to ban Bangladesh's RAB from peacekeeping
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], January 21 (ANI): The UN Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh's "notoriously abusive paramilitary" Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public on Thursday.
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After protest by Dausa farmers, Rajasthan CM orders stopping auction of ag
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], January 20 (ANI): Several Dausa farmers on Thursday staged a protest in Jaipur outside Chief Minister Ashok Gehot's residence against the auctioning of agricultural land by banks of farmers who are unable to pay off their loans.
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Over half million people lost jobs in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover:
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 20 (ANI): More than half a million people have lost or been pushed out of their jobs in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.
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Rajasthan: Unable to repay loan, Dausa farmer's land auctioned for Rs 46 l
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dausa (Rajasthan) [India], January 20 (ANI): The Dausa administration cancelled the auctioning of land belonging to a farmer after a cooperative bank decided to put it for sale as his family failed to repay the loan amount following his death.
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