Price indices for vegetable oils, dairy and sugar drove the January decline, the UN food agency said, issuing two new reports on food production expectations. The FAO food price index fell 17.9 per cent below its all-time peak, reached in March 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The downward pricing trend was helped in…
The so-called UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment is the first global follow-up to a 2021 summit convened to change how the world produces, consumes and thinks about food. The high-level event falls at the halfway point for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development (SDGs), which provide a blueprint for…
“We welcome the timely action taken by Switzerland to suspend the children’s return to Bulgaria, in compliance with the Committee’s request for interim measures,” said Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). “We also welcome the decision to reassess these children’s situation and their risk of being exposed…
Each year, more than 2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most common cancer in the world affecting all adults, according to WHO. Although a limited number of high-income countries have been able to reduce breast cancer mortality by 40 per cent since 1990, for women in poorer countries, one of…
“Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion that have singularly failed in the past, I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of escalation that has only ended in dead bodies, shattered lives and utter despair,” he said in a statement. Record killings in 2022 Mr. Türk reported…
Medicines, roofing repair kits, bottled water and solar lamps were offloaded, highlighting the desperate plight of many thousands of people who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes, amid “regular” shelling attacks. On Thursday, a five-lorry inter agency convoy reached the town of Hulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region – home to Europe’s largest nuclear…
Professor Mishal tore up her degrees against the ban on female students, Photo: File bill to: The Taliban detained and tortured a professor who tore up his degrees in a live show on TV while protesting against the ban on women’s schools. According to the international news agency “AFP”, Taliban officials in Afghanistan beat and…
Karachi: Differences between the teachers of the university and the Department of Universities and Boards have become serious due to the non-permission of the Teachers’ Selection Board and the teachers have announced a partial boycott of classes from Monday through the platform of the Anjuman Tehsari Jamia Karachi. According to the details, in case of…
Israel’s Foreign Minister and Sudanese General Fateh al-Barhan shake hands. Israel and Sudan have drafted a peace treaty that will be signed in Washington this year. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has returned to Tel Aviv after completing his visit to Sudan. He said that the visit to Khartoum was with the consent of the…
File photo Fast bowler of Pakistan cricket team Shaheen Shah Afridi and former captain Shahid Afridi’s daughter Ansha Afridi will get married today, the preparations for the ceremony have been completed. In the viral photos on the photo and video sharing platform Instagram, it can be seen that the venue has been decorated in a…
