UNITED NATIONS: A key committee of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the global commitment to the principle of “self-determination for people still subjected to colonial, foreign and alien occupation.” Co-sponsored by 64 countries, the resolution, submitted by Pakistan Ambassador Munir Akram, was
NEW YORK: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children living in South Asian countries are at risk due to worsening water scarcity in the region. The majority of the most affected children reside in South, South East Asia, Central Asia, and some sub-Saharan
WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA: Following their first face-to-face talks after a year, US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to open a presidential hotline, resume military-to-military communications and work to curb fentanyl production. Biden and Xi met for about four hours on the outskirts of
BRUSSELS: Developed nations may have achieved their overdue promise of $100 billion to help poorer countries cope with climate change in 2022, the OECD said on Thursday, an estimate that may muster some political goodwill on the eve of the COP28 climate summit. In 2009, developed
LONDON: British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer was under pressure after 56 of his lawmakers, including several of his policy team, voted with another opposition party to demand the government call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The so-called amendment - a proposed addition to
NEW DELHI: India has not ruled out an investigation into the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and has asked Canada for evidence to supporg its allegations about New Delhi’s involvement in the case, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday. Jaishankar made
LONDON: The UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful, dealing a massive blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s major election pledge on immigration before a vote expected next year. The court unanimously rejected the government’s
SINGAPORE: The world is losing almost 1 million square kilometres (386,000 square miles) of productive land a year to sand and dust storms made worse by human activities, the United Nations body in charge of fighting desertification warned on Wednesday. The United Nations Convention to Combat
GENEVA: A quarter of Somalia's population is forecast to face "crisis-level hunger or worse" this year due to drought and floods caused by climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Floods that have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the US on his first visit to the country in six years during which he will hold a high-stake meeting with Joe Biden at an undisclosed location in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning. After