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WFP delivers food aid to over 1 million people in Ukraine, seeks USD 590 m
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], March 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it has delivered food aid to 1 million people in Ukraine and requested an additional USD 590 million in funding to expand the assistance.
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India, Mexico discuss health, investment, space technology, other bilatera
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met his Mexican counterpart, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, and held discussions over multiple issues including close United Nations Security Council (UNSC) cooperation between the two countries.
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UN estimates 2 billion people live in conflict-affected areas
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], March 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations estimates that almost 2 billion people around the world are living in areas affected by violent conflict, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.
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UN helicopter crashes in eastern Congo, 8 peacekeepers killed
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kinshasa [DRC], March 30 (ANI): A United Nations (UN) helicopter carrying UN peacekeepers crashed in the Democratic People's Republic of Congo on Tuesday, killing eight people on board.
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UN Mission in DR Congo says lost contact with helicopter in country's east
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kinshasa [DRC], March 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) said on Tuesday that it had lost contact with one of its helicopters in the east of the country.
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90 pc of Afghanistan's population projected below poverty line by year-end
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 29 (ANI): About 90 per cent of Afghanistan's population has been projected to be below the poverty line by the end of the year according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a visiting official said in Kabul.
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Taliban, UN officials meet on humanitarian, development assistance for Afg
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 29 (ANI): Deputy Prime Minister of Taliban-led regime Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi has met with visiting United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner on assistance to the war-torn country.
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PM Modi urges Ayush start-ups to put content online in all UN-recognized l
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon start-ups in the health sector especially those in the Ayush sector to put their content online in all languages recognized by the United Nations and not just remain restricted to English.
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UNSC members send unified message to Taliban, call for opening of schools
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New York [US], March 27 (ANI): Members of the United Nations Security Council, in a joint statement on the Taliban's reversal of their promise on girls' education, said that all the girls in Afghanistan should be allowed to go to school.
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India deplores launch of ICBM by DPRK, calls for peace, security and dialo
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], March 26 (ANI): India at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday (Local Time) deplored the recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and called for dialogue on issues in the Korean Peninsula.
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Int'l labour organization elects new chief
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 25 (ANI): Gilbert Houngbo from Togo will be the next Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the organization announced on Friday.
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India abstains in UNGA on resolution by Ukraine on humanitarian crisis, re
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], March 25 (ANI): India abstained from voting on the draft resolution by Ukraine and its allies on the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country arguing that the draft resolution didn't fully reflect India's expected focus and the need of hour is to focus on cessation of ho
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