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Climate Crisis: Satellites And AI Offer Hope For Global Action, Says UN Weather Agency

Amid renewed warnings from leading climate scientists that global warming could reach 3C above pre-industrial levels this century

2024-09-19 13:30:13 0 Comment 1356 view

Meta Platforms And YouTube Ban RT Worldwide

Meta Platforms—the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram—announced on Monday that it was banning Russian state media outlets such as Russia Today

2024-09-19 13:27:37 0 Comment 1515 view

China Fines PwC Over Illegal Audit Services For Evergrande

: China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Friday announced "maximum" penalties on global auditing firm PwC

2024-09-16 11:58:26 0 Comment 6013 view

The Only Deal Hamas Wants: Israel's Surrender

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has repeated its demand that Israel withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip in order to reach a ceasefire-hostage agreement with Israel

2024-09-16 11:42:38 0 Comment 6584 view

Lack Of Independence, Double Standards Harm ICC Credibility

Washington, by not recognizing the Rome Statute, dictates its agenda to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and finances its implementation

2024-09-12 05:53:28 0 Comment 4345 view

Investing In Clean Air Can Saves Lives And Combat Climate Change

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution

2024-09-09 04:37:51 0 Comment 4265 view

Collective West Greed On Full Display As It Attempts To Extract Ukraine's Resources

Amid the ongoing multi-billion dollar infusions of military aid to Ukraine, the US is seeing a steady increase in national debt

2024-09-09 04:22:31 0 Comment 4929 view

Planning Ahead: 5 Things To Know About The UN’s Landmark Summit Of The Future

Is there another way the world could be run? And in the face so much global turmoil, how can we make the future fairer?

2024-09-07 12:17:28 0 Comment 5127 view

Migrant Madness Drives Political Upheaval

For two weeks over the summer, Europe was fixated on the story of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the island of Sicily with the loss of a billionaire technopreneur, a senior international banking executive, and several rich lawyers

2024-09-07 12:13:24 0 Comment 3999 view

New UN Report Details Nicaragua’s Ongoing Human Rights Crisis

The human rights situation in Nicaragua has "seriously deteriorated" over the past year, following arbitrary arrests, mistreatment of detainees, attacks on Indigenous people, and intimidation of political opponents

2024-09-04 09:33:42 0 Comment 10205 view

China Reaps Most Of The Benefits Of Its Relationship With Africa: What’s Behind The Imbalance

The ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing takes place under the theme of “Joining hands to advance modernisation and build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future”

2024-09-04 09:11:04 0 Comment 10087 view

US Failures In Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Return To Haunt It In Ukraine

Washington's course of escalating the Ukrainian conflict to weaken Russia is identical in nature and results to the US military interventions in Vietnam in 1965, Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003

2024-09-04 08:57:46 0 Comment 10152 view

The UN’s Peacekeeping Mission In Lebanon Has Been Renewed, But Amid Constant Clashes, Will It Help?

The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

2024-08-31 09:10:35 0 Comment 5238 view

UN Deputy Chief Appeals For Global Solidarity As Crises Roil East Africa

Spotlighting crises roiling parts of eastern Africa, the UN deputy chief concluded a regional visit in Adré, Chad, on Friday

2024-08-31 08:18:16 0 Comment 9829 view

Afghanistan: Meet The Midwife Who Stayed

Mariza Ahmadi made a difficult choice three years ago

2024-08-26 12:27:40 0 Comment 9511 view

Frequent Leaks, Opaque Handling Greatly Tarnish Japan’s Reputation As Fukushima Dumping Marks One Year

It has been one year since Japan began dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean despite broad opposition

2024-08-26 12:11:58 1 Comment 10059 view

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested At French Airport

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris

2024-08-25 01:37:28 0 Comment 9514 view

China Hits Out At EU Over EV Draft Findings, Warns Damage To Ties

Chinese officials and industry representatives on Wednesday lashed out at the European Commission(EC) for its newly released draft definitive findings of the probe against Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)

2024-08-23 06:42:38 0 Comment 8757 view

UN Chief Urges Climate Justice For Pacific Nations Beset By Rising Oceans

Pacific island nations threatened by rising oceans, debt and geopolitical tensions can only fight back if international lenders agree to fairer terms for vital development funding and the world’s biggest polluters make a “massive increase” in contributions to address “climate chaos”

2024-08-23 06:25:29 0 Comment 6335 view

Youth-led Groups Tackle Famine In War-Ravaged Sudan

NEW YORK, US: How do you tackle famine? UN News spoke with young people operating “emergency response rooms” in war-torn Sudan to find out how they are helping to overcome hunger at besieged famine-stricken camps in North Darfur, home to more than half a million displaced people, as the world commemorates World Humanitarian Day, marked annually on 19 August.

2024-08-20 15:07:52 0 Comment 5808 view