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Geneva: The UN refugee agency is demanding an urgent investigation into the discovery of 92 naked people on Greeces land border with Turkey, calling the incident shocking and saying it has been "deeply distressed" by images of the group, a…
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Bhubaneswar: Another achievement and proud moment for Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) as Dipti Mahapatro, the General Manager, received yet another International Award the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award 2022. In the ceremony that…
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Geneva: More than 140 aid workers were killed over the course of 2021, the Geneva-based UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. The figure for aid workers killed in conflict or as a result of…
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World Water Day is held on March 22 every year to highlight the importance of fresh water. The initiative started at 1993 by the United Nation and the tradition has been going on ever since. Every year on this day, the UN World Water…
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Seoul: North Korea on Sunday rejected a draft UN resolution criticising the country's human rights violations as it vowed to continue to resolutely counter hostile forces. The reaction came four days after the Third Committee of the UN…
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United Nations: A record 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, a nearly 40 per cent increase on 2020 which is "almost entirely from Covid-19", a top United Nations (UN) official said on Tuesday. In an appeal for…
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United Nations, Sep 26 (IANS) For the second time in a week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tore into the outdated structures of the United Nations, turning the mirror on the global body and urging it to fix its internal crisis so that it…
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Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik has urged the UN to form a high-powered commission to probe if the COVID-19 was a man-made or a naturally grown virus and also to locate its origin, a media report said on…
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New Delhi: Reports are doing the rounds about absconding godman Swami Nithyananda's legal team is hard at work on the draft of a petition to the UN seeking recognition for his "sovereign nation of Kailaasa". It is being speculated that his…
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United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Kanni Wignaraja of Sri Lanka as the new director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at UN Development Programme (UNDP), his press office has said. Wignaraja…
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