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17 countries elected into UN Economic and Social Council for 3-year term
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Seventeen states were elected Friday into the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the coordinating body for the economic and social work of UN agencies and funds, for a three-year term.
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Australian govt to compensate French shipbuilder for scrapped submarine co
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The Australian government on Saturday agreed to pay a French shipbuilder 830 million Australian dollars after tearing up a submarine contract.
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At least 4 people killed by explosion in Colombia
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Bogota [Colombia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): At least four people were killed by an explosion in the Colombian town of Cartagena del Chaira in the department of Caqueta, the Colombian government reported on Friday.
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Russia holds Baltic drills amid NATO exercises
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Russian warships are conducting drills in the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is holding exercises in the same region.
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Tanzanian President mourns 19 people killed in road accident
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday mourned 19 people who were killed in a road accident at dawn in the country's southern highlands region of Iringa.
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IOM seeks 66 million USD to scale up humanitarian aid in Somalia
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Friday appealed for 66 million U.S. dollars to reach more than 1.25 million people in Somalia with humanitarian assistance by February 2023.
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Singapore reports 2,969 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Singapore, June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Singapore reported 2,969 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total tally to 13,35,625.
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Eleven gendarmes killed in Burkina Faso attack
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Eleven gendarmes were killed on Thursday evening in an attack in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, the army said in a statement on Friday.
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Millions face threat of starvation amid 'unprecedented drought' in Horn of
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Millions of people face the threat of starvation amid unprecedented drought in the three Horn of Africa countries of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, humanitarian partners have warned.
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Syria suspends flights at Damascus airport after Israeli dawn airstrikes
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Syria announced on Friday the suspension of all flights at Damascus airport following the overnight Israeli missile strikes on sites south of the Syrian capital.
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At least 15 killed in South Africa's bus, truck collision
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 15 people were killed in a horrific head-on collision that occurred between a truck and a bus on the M17 metropolitan route in Patryshoek, north of Tshwane, said Thabo Charles Mabaso, spokesperson at the City of Tshwane Emergency Se
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Asia kicks off key security meeting on regional security after two-year su
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Singapore, June 10 (ANI/Xinhua): The 19th Shangri-La Dialogue will be held here from Friday to Sunday after a two-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing mainly on security in the Asia-Pacific region and viable solutions, including the China-proposed Global Security Initiative
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