Photo courtesy of Report News Agency Two training aircraft of the Italian Air Force collided during the flight, both pilots were killed in the accident. A training exercise was underway northwest of Rome, with the two pilots flying U-208 training aircraft. According to a press release issued by the Air Force, the cause of the…
A bill has been introduced to deal with those who enter the UK illegally. The bill was introduced by Home Secretary Sylla Braverman in London. Soyla Braverman said on the occasion that those arriving in Britain on small boats would be immediately sent to other countries. Illegal persons can be detained without bail for up…
Chinese Foreign Minister Xi Jinping, file photo China’s Foreign Minister Xi Jinping says that the US and China are heading towards an irreversible conflict. He said while holding a press conference that the US says that it wants to dominate China without any conflict, but this competition from the US side is to stop and…
Colombo, January 2022: Chinese Foreign Minister Weng Yi stands arm in arm with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Rajapaksa. China came to the rescue in tough times, agreeing to reschedule Sri Lanka’s debt. After debt restructuring by China, it will be easier for Sri Lanka to get a $2.9 billion package from the IMF. According to…
Among the many challenges they face, the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) remain hotspots of chronic and acute food insecurity, with an average prevalence of chronic undernourishment of 22.1 per cent, and in some countries, reaching more than 50 per cent. Despite some progress since 2020, the overall situation has worsened over the past decade due…
The unprecedented flooding, triggered by severe monsoon rains, submerged a third of the country and resulted in some 1,700 deaths. Millions displaced, infrastructure damaged More than 33 million people were affected overall, or one in seven Pakistanis, while eight million were displaced and 13,000 injured, according to the UN Office in the country. Around one…
Like many women in Tajikistan, Shermatova Marjona has experienced gender-based violence. Ms. Shermatova met her husband while she was working abroad as a cleaner in Moscow, Russia. It wasn’t long before they were married, and he persuaded her to send all the money she earned to her father-in-law in Tajikistan, who was to use the…
WMO continues to monitor the “remarkable” tropical storm, which has cut a destructive path across the two countries since it first developed a month ago. At least 21 people have been killed, and thousands more displaced, with the latest deaths reported in Madagascar on Monday. Major impact “Freddy is having a major socio-economic and…
“It is hard to imagine peace while State actors continue to be involved in gross human rights violations,” said Commission member Barney Afako, presenting the latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. “A true demonstration of the Government’s stated commitments to peace and human rights would involve dismissing the responsible officials and initiating…
“Malawi is really experiencing the deadliest cholera outbreak in its recorded history – nothing less than that – and the country is also struggling to respond to an earlier outbreak and ongoing COVID-19 cases across the nation,” said Rudolf Schwenk, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Malawi Representative. In an update to journalists in Geneva, Mr. Schwenk…
