Pierre Vauthier is the chief of office for the FAO in Ukraine. He told UN News how the FAO team in the country – around 100 staff members, mostly Ukrainian specialists in agriculture-related areas – was dispersed throughout the country, in often difficult working conditions. “One of the difficulties we faced, once the war began,…
File photo Elon Musk, the head of Twitter, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has once again become the richest person in the world. According to foreign media reports, after the 100% increase in Tesla’s share prices, Elon Musk’s wealth has increased manifold, due to which Elon Musk, who has been on the second place in…
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing one person and injuring dozens. According to the government agency working on natural disasters, the buildings affected by the previous earthquakes were completely destroyed in today’s earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake was Yeslivort in Malatya province, where a terrible earthquake also occurred on February 6. According to…
RIYADH: A person who kept a runaway house in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, was arrested. The said person may be fined 30 million riyals or imprisoned for 10 years. According to Urdu News, the Environmental Security Force in Saudi Arabia has detained a local citizen in Riyadh region who was illegally harvesting a…
Guidom Sabally’s high school education was cut short because his family could no longer afford school fees. For many years, he struggled to find work as an unskilled labourer. Now in his 40s, Mr. Sabally was able to take up the opportunity of free technical training, provided by a UN-led training programme, in 2018; having…
An American man began speaking with an ‘Irish accent’ after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, researchers say. Amazingly, the man had never been to Ireland. The North Carolina resident, who was in his 50s, likely suffered from Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) and was losing control of his accent, the British Medical Journal reported. This rare…
(Photo International Media) Jackson: A gunman killed six people, including a woman, in a town in the US state of Mississippi. According to international news agencies, a gunman entered a home in Arcabatla, Tate County on Friday and shot a woman, then entered another home where he killed 2 others and then I killed 2…
Johannes Fromholt is currently near the frontline in Donetsk Oblast and has been describing the support the UN is providing. “I am currently in Kurakhove, which is close to the frontline. We see heavy fighting, which has intensified even in the past week. We came here as part of a UN interagency humanitarian convoy, to…
The devastating impact of 12 years of civil war has been compounded by the 6 February earthquake which has left tens of thousands of people dead and millions more in need of support on both sides of the border between Syria and Türkiye. WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Dr. Ahmed Al Mandhari,…
Internet has made many of our daily tasks very easy, whether it is to buy something, make a booking or get information about something, everything is available online. But there is no dearth of online scams and recently an Indian man also fell victim to it. Rohit Verma, a resident of the Indian city of…
