UN weather agency warns July likely warmest month on record
Echoing that warning in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that “short of a mini-Ice Age” in coming days, July 2023 would likely “shatter records across the board”. The…
Warming trend in Asia set to cause more disruption: UN weather agency
Melting ice and glaciers and rising sea levels threaten more socio-economic disruption in future, according to the agency’s latest State of the Climate report for the region. The mean temperature…
The Russian intelligence agency foiled the plan to kill two journalists on Emma, Ukraine
Russian security officials, file photo Russia’s intelligence agency FSB has claimed that it has foiled a plot to kill two Russian journalists by Ukraine. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said…
Aspartame sweetener ‘possibly’ cancer-causing, WHO agency reports
The joint assessment from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which is part of WHO and the Food and…
The identification of serious shortcomings in the Indian pharmaceutical company by the American agency FDA
US Food and Drug Administration – File photo The US Food and Drug Administration has identified serious lapses in the Indian pharmaceutical company. According to the American media report, deficiencies…
UN space agency vigilant over threat posed by ‘near-Earth objects’
NEOs are asteroids or comets that come relatively close to the Sun, to about 50 million kilometres from Earth’s orbit. Some of them, ‘potentially hazardous objects’ (PHOs), come even closer…
UN refugee agency predicts spike in resettlement needs next year
According to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs Assessment for 2024, over 2.4 million refugees will be in need of resettlement, marking a 20 per cent increase compared to 2023. A…
United States commits to rejoin UN cultural agency
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay told Member States that the decision was “a strong act of confidence, in UNESCO and in multilateralism,” and in the way that the agency was implementing…
UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse
Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at…
Indian Investigation Agency requested the court to give death sentence to Yasin Malik
Photo: Social Media Indian investigation agency requested the court to give death sentence to Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik. According to a foreign news agency, the New Delhi High Court has…