Paris: One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said Wednesday. "Globally, almost one in three schools has no drinking water from an improved source," the UN cultural
Diamniadio Senegal: When Mohamed was hired at the construction site for the United Nations’ new West Africa headquarters in Senegal, he was proud to say he would be working "not only for Africa, but for the world." The 25-year-old Sierra Leonean was a plumber on the
Kampala: Uganda has said it will not renew the mandate of the United Nations’ human rights office in the East African country, citing the development of its own sufficient capacity to monitor rights compliance. In a letter by Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Ministry sent to Office of
Paris: Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said. Superbugs — strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics — are estimated to have killed 1.27 million
Dubai: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman last year has sparked an irreversible "revolutionary process" that would eventually lead to the collapse of the republic. Iran's clerical rulers have faced widespread unrest since Mahsa
Turkiye: Heartrending scenes of a newborn plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter’s hand have laid bare the human cost of violent earthquakes in Syria and Turkiye that had claimed 8,300 lives. For two days and nights since the 7.8
Ladakh: The people of Ladakh district participated in the protest and demanded statehood and constitutional guarantees under the sixth schedule for the Union Territory. The protest was organized under the banner of the Leh-based apex body of People’s Movement for 6th Schedule and the Kargil-based Kargil
Islamabad: A false propaganda being disseminated by the Indian media, claiming that Pakistan had denied airspace to India's C-17 plane carrying relief aid for earthquake-hit Turkiye, has backfired after Indian Air Force (IAF) issued a clarification. The death toll of a devastating earthquake in southern Turkiye
New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti was detained by the Delhi Police in the national capital on Wednesday (February 8), during a protest against the ongoing eviction drive in Kashmir. The PDP, along with other Kashmir-based
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday continued to target the Narendra Modi government in Parliament on allegations that it was in collusion with industrialist Gautam Adani. Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge questioned whether the exponential rise in Adani’s wealth was due to favours from the government. “Wealth