World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 500,000 people, providing school meals, social protection and emergency activities nationwide. The agency has also served some 500,000 hot meals to over 76,000 internally displaced persons in 57 sites in the greater Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.  Aid partners have also delivered nearly four million…

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IAEA chief outlines five principles to avert nuclear ‘catastrophe’ in Ukraine

Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic watchdog

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the targeting marked a “major escalation” in the level of danger facing the power plant. It was the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 that the ZNPP – Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – has been directly targeted….

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Palestinian request for UN membership in spotlight amid fears for Rafah invasion

Palestinian request for UN membership in spotlight amid fears for Rafah invasion

At the same time, a full six months since Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel prompted an unprecedented Israeli military response, former residents of Khan Younis just north of Rafah are already returning to the shattered city – a move that aid teams cautioned against, given the absence of stockpiled supplies. “The planning is underway for…

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Reconstitution of the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet, including the Federal Minister of Industry and Production

Reconstitution of the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet, including the Federal Minister of Industry and Production

Islamabad: The Federal Government has reconstituted the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet and the Federal Minister for Industries and Production has also been made a member of the ECC. Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has re-constituted the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and made the Federal Minister of Industry and Production a member…

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corruption in the judiciary;  Transparency International Pakistan ordered to republish report

corruption in the judiciary; Transparency International Pakistan ordered to republish report

Peshawar: The court ordered Transparency International Pakistan to republish the 2023 annual report. Transparency International Pakistan has been ordered to republish its 2023 annual report on the issue of publishing the judiciary as the third most corrupt institution in Pakistan. The Chief Justice Peshawar High Court delivered a reserved judgment on February 19, in which…

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