“We need to focus on an emergency response right now”, he said, highlighting a three-step plan to provide humanitarian assistance to all Ukrainians impacted, who have faced more than one year of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. “We need to save people and get them to places where they are safe and…
Latest news reports said the death toll is at least 275. More than 1,000 people were hospitalised but close to 800 of those involved in the crash have reportedly been discharged. According to reports, railway officials and India’s minister in charge of the vast network, said on Sunday that a signal fault was the likely…
The visit of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief to China has been revealed. According to international media reports, a US official said that to improve communication between Beijing and Washington, CIA Director William Burns visited China last month for talks with his Chinese counterparts. Burns made the visit in May, which was first…
File photo The Maha Panchayat held in the Indian state of Haryana gave an ultimatum to the government to arrest the chief of the Indian Wrestling Federation, Brij Bhushan. According to Indian media, the Maha Panchayat has given a June 9 deadline to arrest Brij Bhushan, who is facing allegations of harassment by women wrestlers….
Washington: A US official has revealed that Washington wants to boost ties with Beijing and that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns visited China last month for talks with Chinese counterparts. ThA According to the foreign news agency ‘Reuters’, last month Director Burns traveled to Beijing where he met with his Chinese counterparts and…
The country, commonly known as North Korea, attempted to fire off its first military reconnaissance satellite earlier that day but it crashed into the sea, according to media reports. The DPRK has reportedly pledged to conduct another launch after it learns what went wrong. The UN chief noted that any launch using ballistic missile technology…
Delivering his latest update, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi reported that the situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – the largest in Europe – remains extremely fragile and dangerous. Military operations continue in the region “and may well increase very considerably in the near future,” he warned. Rolling the dice The Zaporizhzhya plant…
Mr. Guterres was speaking on the final day of the annual Africa Dialogue Series in New York, where the focus this year was on accelerating implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) – set to be the largest in the world. Harness the potential He said the pandemic brought high food and energy…
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which is meeting this week. Threat still remains “The end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency is not the end of COVID-19 as a global health threat,” Tedros told Member States. “The threat of…
Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the annual opening of the World Health Assembly, the decision making body of the WHO, and said that the agency was born out of a spirit of cooperation, leading to dramatic improvements in human health. “Global life expectancy – up over 50 percent; Infant mortality – down sixty percent in…
