4:20 PM Pause ‘cannot replace’ a ceasefire: Russia Russian Ambassador Nebenzia said getting aid and humanitarian assistance into Gaza is essential, especially given the deteriorating situation on the ground, with dwindling fuel supplies and the Israeli operations that are shelling schools and storming the Al-Shifa Hospital. “Humanitarian pauses cannot replace a ceasefire or truce,” he…
Barricaded for two weeks at the outset of the conflict, the Rafah crossing re-opened on 21 October following an Israel-Egyptian deal for limited entry of humanitarian aid deliveries. Still, only a trickle is getting across the border. While media reports announce fresh efforts to get aid to Gaza, like French and Italian hospital ships and…
The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin comes ahead of the UN climate change conference COP28 which opens in Dubai in two weeks. Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – account for most greenhouse gas emissions, which trap the sun’s heat, leading to global warming and climate change. Last year, global averaged concentrations of the most important greenhouse gas – carbon dioxide…
More than 64 people are missing and feared dead after the vessel they were travelling in capsized on Sunday. Approximately 90 migrants, including 60 women, were on board the vessel, which was heading to Yemen from the coast of Djibouti. Twenty-six survivors were rescued by the Yemeni Coast Guard. Global cooperation needed IOM is collaborating…
Catherine Russell visited Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the besieged enclave on Wednesday. “Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement. Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn. The parties to…
The initiative from veteran aid chief Martin Griffiths, head of the UN aid coordination office OCHA, comes more than five weeks since Hamas militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and took around 240 hostages. The full-scale Israeli siege and assault that followed has levelled thousands of buildings in Gaza and reportedly claimed more than 11,000…
Karachi: Caretaker Industries and Revenue Minister Younis Dagha has said that K Electric’s plants are very dilapidated due to which consumers of Karachi have to pay higher bills. Speaking at an event in Karachi, Younis Dagha said that a part of the price of electricity is fixed annually and a part is separately in the…
Photo: File National cricket team captain Babar Azam intends to take legal action on the issue of leaked WhatsApp messages. Sources say that Babar Azam reached the National Cricket Academy (NCA) to meet Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Managing Committee Zika Ashraf. Before coming to NCA, captain Babar Azam took legal advice on the issue…
Photo: Asif Mahmood Lahore: With non-timber farming sector inactive in Punjab, 4000 families related to sericulture, beekeeping, medicinal plants and mushroom farming, especially rural women, have become unemployed. 45-year-old Bashiran Bibi and 50-year-old Sughra Bibi, residents of Changa Manga area of Kasur district, have been rearing silkworms in their home for the past two decades….
The problem of smog is not only of Lahore but of entire Punjab, Lahore High Court The Lahore High Court ordered the closure of private private schools and colleges across the city on Saturday to control smog and directed to implement work from home for two days a week. The court remarked that there are…
