This in effect abolishes the monitoring of UN sanctions against the country, more commonly known as North Korea, blocking the extension of the panel for another year. Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the sanctions regime adopted with the intention of preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, was losing its relevance and also “to a great extent, detached…
In Ukraine, there was no respite from war over the holiday period, neither for the country’s citizens, nor the UN workers attempting to deliver aid and support, a senior official for the UN migration agency (IOM) told UN News. Yuri Rudenko, National Programme Officer for IOM Ukraine, was on leave in his hometown of Dnipro on…
Robots are gradually getting embedded in every aspect of our life.Flying dragon robot has also been made to deal with fire. As science advances, the involvement of robots is increasing. Now the robots will also be brought to fire fighting, for this Japan has developed a flying villa fire fighting dragon robot. According to foreign…
Osaka: Japanese researchers have created a flying firefighting hose that can fly in different directions using its own water pressure to put out fires. The Flying Dragon system, developed by scientists from Japan’s Osaka University and Akita Perfect University, has two four-bladed propulsion units mounted on two ends. Both of these systems work like an…
That’s according to Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who briefed the Security Council on Friday, quoting the latest figures available. “This is more than 700 people a day, or one person dying from small arms every two minutes”, she said. She added that “small arms and light weapons are the weapons of choice…
With the civil war between rival militaries now in its 200th day, children “continue to pay the highest price for a crisis not of their making – increasingly with their own lives”, said the agency in a statement. There are more children now displaced there than anywhere in the world, with three million fleeing the…
Between January 2019 and June 2022, the agency documented 759 individual attacks against journalists, including five killings, during 89 elections in 70 countries. Most of these attacks – which included beating and arbitrary arrest – were committed by police and security forces. Attacked from all around The findings come in a report published in tandem with the International Day to End…
These are the grim findings of an assessment published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday, which calls for both immediate and long-term remediation measures. Hundreds of square kilometres were flooded in the disaster, and thousands of square kilometres of reservoir and wetlands were desiccated. UNEP’s preliminary assessment carried out at the request of…
Photo courtesy of Indian Media 10 people were killed and more than 20 injured when a train caught fire in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. According to Indian media, an illegal gas cylinder was kept in the bogie parked at the station, which caused the fire. According to reports, the passengers in the bogie…
The fire could not be controlled even on the fourth day in the forests of Greece, Photo: File Athens: 18 migrants were badly burned to death in a fire while trying to enter Turkey illegally from a forest in Greece. According to the international news agency, 18 badly burned bodies were found near the Turkish…
