[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – More than a fifth of the world’s migrating species are at risk of going extinct as a result of climate change and human encroachment, according to the United Nation’s first-ever report on migrating animals published on Monday. Billions of animals make journeys across deserts, plains or oceans every year to breed…
[ad_1] JERUSALEM (Reuters) – In refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians relying on the U.N. agency UNRWA for schooling and healthcare fear key services will stop as donors have paused funding over accusations staff members took part in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Most of the focus on the fate of the United Nations…
[ad_1] DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said it succeeded in mediating the release of 100 Russian prisoners of war in exchange for 100 war prisoners from the Ukrainian side. Russia’s Defence Ministry, in a post on the Telegram messaging app, noted the UAE’s “humanitarian mediation”, as did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the…
[ad_1] JUBA: About 40 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in violence in a disputed area on South Sudan’s border with Sudan over the weekend and hundreds have sought refuge in a UN peacekeepers’ compound, a government official said on Monday. Frequent clashes have taken place in Abyei region between rival factions of…
[ad_1] By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) – It could take until the closing years of the century for Gaza’s economy to regain its pre-conflict size if hostilities in the Palestinian enclave were to cease immediately, the U.N. trade body said in a report published on Wednesday. Israel’s offensive in Gaza in the…
[ad_1] President of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis has commended India for its engagement on U.N. Security Council reform, even as he acknowledged that progress on the issue has been “too slow”. “Well, I am acutely aware that India together with its G4 negotiating bloc on Security Council Reform, are clearly for a much…
[ad_1] Calling India a “valuable” member of the United Nations (UN), the president of the General Assembly on January 23 said he would encourage it to continue to lead by example, maintain its principled stance for achieving lasting peace through dialogue and diplomacy and to work to bridge divides around the world. “India is already…
[ad_1] MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is taking all “necessary measures” to defend its citizens and key infrastructure from Ukrainian attacks, the Kremlin said on Monday, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv’s forces of killing 27 people in shelling of a Russian-held city in eastern Ukraine. Also on Sunday Russian company Novatek was forced to suspend…
[ad_1] KAMPALA: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to open dialogue to settle their dispute over Ethiopia‘s maritime deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland.Tensions in the Horn of Africa have escalated since landlocked Ethiopia struck a deal with Somaliland on January 1 that gives it much sought-after…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pakistan and Iran have reached an agreement to de-escalate tensions following recent deadly airstrikes on militant targets in their respective territories, reported AFP.The airstrikes took place in the Baluchistan region, which is split between the two countries. These military actions had further fueled regional tensions that were already heightened due to the…
