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Global food commodity prices drop further due to COVID-19: FAO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], May 7 (ANI): World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April as the economic and logistical impacts of COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant contractions in demand for many commodities, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United
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Greta Thunberg donates USD 100,000 to UNICEF to protect children during CO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 1 (ANI): Sweden-based climate activist Greta Thunberg has announced that she was donating USD 100,000 in prize money she had received from the Danish NGO Human Act to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support their work in protecting children hit by the
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TS Tirumurti is India's new Permanent Representative to UN
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): TS Tirumurti has been appointed the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations (UN) at New York, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday.
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UN urges Bangladesh to take in 500 Rohingyas stranded at sea
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 28 (ANI): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Bangladesh to "immediately allow" two boats with 500 Rohingya refugees onboard "to come ashore and receive necessary food, water and health care."
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UN to screen Earth Anthem penned by poet-diplomat Abhay K
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Antananarivo [Madagascar], April 26 (ANI): The United Nations, Department of Global Communications, Civil Society Unit along with DGC Civil Society Youth Representatives Steering Committee will host a youth-led live event to commemorate Earth Day on Monday (April 27) from 9 am-11 am (local t
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UNCTAD predicts $3.4 trillion debt for developing countries amid COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 25 (ANI): Developing countries' repayments on their public external debt alone will soar to between 2.6 trillion and 3.4 trillion USD in 2020 and 2021, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said in a new report while calling for a glo
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COVID-19 vaccine must be considered public good with universal availabilit
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 25 (ANI): The under-trial vaccine for coronavirus must be considered a global public good and made affordable with universal availability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday (local time).
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Chitkara University features in Times Higher Education University Impact R
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 24 (ANI/ NewsVoir): Chitkara University is the only university from Punjab to feature in the top list of the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020 released by Time Higher Education on April 22, 2020. The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings ar
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UNICEF issues guidelines for journalists working amid COVID-19 pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued guidelines for the media persons, who are working amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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UN calls for solidarity among communities as Sri Lanka marks a year of Eas
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 21 (ANI): Remembering the 259 lives lost and those injured in the Easter Sunday attacks a year ago, the office of United Nations in the country on Tuesday called for solidarity between communities to safeguard the health and rights of every citizen as terrorism has
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US can efficiently use $500 million it allocates to WHO, says Trump
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 19 (ANI): The United States could find ways to efficiently use the USD 500 million, it usually allocates to the World Health Organisation (WHO), said President Donald Trump while taking a dig at the United Nations health body.
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UN warns COVID-19 could trigger worst downturn since Great Depression
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 18 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic could trigger the worst downturn in the global economy since the Great Depression, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday (local time).
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