Kuwaiti authorities raided and recovered the largest drug shipment in the country’s history. According to the Kuwait News Agency, a drug factory was raided and drugs worth more than 30 million dinars were recovered. Kuwait’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that forces have recovered half a ton of illegally produced 1.5 million pills and drug-making…
European Union leaders arrived in the capital of Ukraine, Photo: Reuters Cafe: During the important meeting of European Union leaders in Ukraine, Russian fighter jets continued to circle the airspace of Kyiv for the purpose of intimidation. According to Al Jazeera News, European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen arrived in Kyiv, the capital of…
In addition to one death, the sight of 55 people was affected by Indian eye drops, Photo: File New Delhi: An Indian drug company has recalled the entire stock of its eye drops in the US over deaths. According to the world news agency, the Indian company Global Pharma Healthcare has decided to bring back…
Citizens are at the airport to welcome Pope Francis. Armed herdsmen shot and killed 21 civilians during Pope Francis’ visit to South Sudan. Pope Francis arrives in Sudan today on a three-day visit, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland. These Christian leaders are visiting Sudan to promote…
Medicines, roofing repair kits, bottled water and solar lamps were offloaded, highlighting the desperate plight of many thousands of people who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes, amid “regular” shelling attacks. On Thursday, a five-lorry inter agency convoy reached the town of Hulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region – home to Europe’s largest nuclear…
“Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion that have singularly failed in the past, I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of escalation that has only ended in dead bodies, shattered lives and utter despair,” he said in a statement. Record killings in 2022 Mr. Türk reported…
Each year, more than 2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most common cancer in the world affecting all adults, according to WHO. Although a limited number of high-income countries have been able to reduce breast cancer mortality by 40 per cent since 1990, for women in poorer countries, one of…
“We welcome the timely action taken by Switzerland to suspend the children’s return to Bulgaria, in compliance with the Committee’s request for interim measures,” said Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). “We also welcome the decision to reassess these children’s situation and their risk of being exposed…
The so-called UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment is the first global follow-up to a 2021 summit convened to change how the world produces, consumes and thinks about food. The high-level event falls at the halfway point for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development (SDGs), which provide a blueprint for…
Price indices for vegetable oils, dairy and sugar drove the January decline, the UN food agency said, issuing two new reports on food production expectations. The FAO food price index fell 17.9 per cent below its all-time peak, reached in March 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The downward pricing trend was helped in…
