UNITED NATIONS: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted the need to address global hunger, promote cooperation between businesses and governments, and mitigate the damaging impact of continuing climate change on food production. Addressing the ‘UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment’, in Rome, the UN
WAD MADANI SUDAN: One Sudanese child has been killed or wounded every hour on average during the country's brutal war that has now raged for 100 days, the UN children's agency said Tuesday. The army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary forces of Mohamed
Muhammad Wasama Khalid LIPR Ambassador of Peace Kashmir stands as a highly militarized area on a global scale, characterized by a substantial presence of approximately 700,000 to 900,000 Indian soldiers, paramilitary personnel, and private security forces. Over the years, there have been allegations of state terrorism
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has said that 20,000 drowning deaths every year in the European region are “entirely preventable”. Most recently, the catastrophic loss of hundreds of lives, including Pakistanis, in the capsizing of a fishing vessel off the
UPPER DIR: The Indian woman who has travelled to meet her Pakistani friend, Nasrullah, has said she "feels safe here" in Pakistan. "I want to give this message to all that I have come here [Pakistan] legally and with planning as it was not about two
NEW DELHI: India’s Parliament was disrupted for a third day by opposition protests over ethnic clashes in a remote northeastern state in which more than 130 people have been killed since May. Opposition lawmakers carried placards and chanted slogans outside the Parliament building as they demanded
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the UN body that supports peace efforts in conflict-affected countries, to expand its coverage to include Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir. “Peacebuilding is a growth industry,” Ambassador Munir Akram told the UN General Assembly which debated the
WEST BENGAL: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has revealed the secret of the Pulwama drama created in 2019, saying that Modi created the Pulwama drama to win the elections. “Let me tell the students and youth that the BJP is planning to repeat pulwama-like incidents. Chief
GENEVA: A U.N.-backed human rights advocate says hundreds of boys — some as young as 11 — held in detention camps run by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria have been wrongly separated from their mothers on the “unproven” belief that they pose a security
LONDON: Famous BBC journalist George Alagiah, who was one of the most respected and longest-serving newsmen, died at the age of 67 on Monday after losing a 10-year-long battle with cancer, a statement from his agent said. The statement read: "George was deeply loved by everybody