The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday said the number of people forcibly displaced around the world has climbed to a record 110 million. UNHCR said conflicts in Ukraine and Sudan spurred millions of people to flee their homes. In a new report, the agency said...
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Former U.S. president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges on Tuesday in connection with his handling of classified documents and alleged attempts to prevent the government from recovering them. It marks the first time an American president has been charged with a federal crime. If found...
UN Secretary General, António Guterres on Tuesday called for improved digital accessibility for Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWD). Guterres made the call at the opening of the 16th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at UN headquarters...
Leading figures across Italy and around the world have paid tribute to former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after he died at the age of 86. Berlusconi died of complications from chronic leukemia at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan on Monday. Reactions from national and international leaders underlined Berlusconi’s...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday announced that the United States has decided to rejoin the organisation in July. The U.S. will rejoin the UN cultural agency after having stopped all funding in 2011 and announced its complete withdrawal from the agency. UNESCO Director-General...
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) has deplored the death of 27 children and 53 others who were injured after unexploded ordnance exploded at a playing field near Qoryoley town in southern Somalia on Friday. Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, UNICEF Representative in Somalia, said the UN agency was deeply shocked and...
The Archbishop of Canterbury on Friday urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country’s new anti-LGBT law. In a statement, the archbishop said there was no justification for Anglicans anywhere to support legislation that goes against the Christian teachings of the Gospel. Under the law, approved by...
Pope Francis is recovering well from a hernia operation and routine post-surgery examinations showed good results, Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni announced on Thursday. The head of the Catholic Church underwent three hours of open abdominal surgery under general anaesthetic at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Wednesday. The operation was...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague is set to hear a case brought by Ukraine against Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, in legal proceedings due to start on Tuesday. Ukraine filed the lawsuit against Russia in 2017, long before the current war, for supporting pro-Russian rebels...
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a deadly train accident in India’s Odisha region on Friday evening, officials said. At least 207 people died and about 900 injured in the accident, according to a twitter post by Pradeep Jena, chief secretary of the...
Spain’s sexual and reproductive health law, which includes the right for women to take time off work when they have their period, came into effect on Thursday. The Gender Equality Ministry’s bill, put forward by the left-wing government, was approved by parliament in February. Since then, amendments were passed...
The 193 UN Member States on Thursday, elected a veteran diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago, Dennis Francis as the President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. Francis, who has had a nearly 40-year-career, will take the helm of the UN’s main policy-making body, starting in September....
North Korea sharply rejected criticism from the United States (U.S.) over its alleged failed test launch of a rocket carrying a military reconnaissance satellite on Wednesday. North Korean state media quoted Kim Yo Jong, the sister of authoritarian ruler Kim Jong Un, as saying. “The U.S. is a group...
The possibility the COVID -19 virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has said. The view of virologist and immunologist Prof. George Gao was in stark contrast to that of the Chinese government which dismissed any suggestion the virus might ...
Guinness World Records has confirmed India, with an estimated population of over 1.425 billion people, has become the most populated country in the world. According to new figures from the United Nations’ Population Division and quoted by Guinness World Records, India’s number of residents is estimated to be 1,425,775,850....
The Kremlin is not interested in halting the conflict with Ukraine, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, while officials in the Russian border region of Belgorod continue to report of attacks. Russia will continue its “special military operation” until the end, until it has asserted its interests and achieved its...
Thai Government on Tuesday said seven people were killed and 23 others injured after a school sports arena collapsed in northern Thailand. According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), the accident occurred at around 7:00 p.m. local time on Monday when the roof of a primary...
Russia on Friday said it banned entry to 500 Americans, including former president Barack Obama, in response to sanctions imposed by Washington. “In response to the anti-Russian sanctions regularly imposed by the Biden administration… entry into the Russian Federation is closed for 500 Americans,” the foreign ministry said, adding...
The G7 announced plans to restrict the trade in diamonds with Russia in an effort to cut the revenues that fund Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Leaders of the G7 countries announced the new sanctions in a joint statement on Friday, the first day of their three-day summit in...
Representatives of the seven major democratic industrial nations (G-7) began their summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Friday. The summit started by remembering those killed by the atomic bomb dropped on the city at the end of World War II. The heads of state and government visited the memorial to...