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80 years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the “only guarantee” against the use of nuclear weapons today is their “total elimination”, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday. Read the f…
Millions of people returning to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries are receiving humanitarian support at the border, but they will need more help to rebuild their lives, according to UN-Habitat, the agency that advocates for sustainable communitie…
The Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries wrapped up earlier Friday in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with delegates adopting a landmark political declaration aimed at speeding up sustainable development and boosting resilience in 32 nations tha…
Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday, while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.Read the full story, “Yo…
The UN’s top human rights official insisted on Friday that the Israeli Government must not pursue a complete takeover of the Gaza Strip.Read the full story, “Israeli plan to take complete control of Gaza must stop now, says UN rights chief”, on globali…
.Here’s a difficult thing about ethnic cleansing. Suppose the evil party wants a people gone, ded or alive. Just gone from a specific area. They inflict harm on them. Now there’s a third party and it has to decide whether to accept refugees.To accept r…
The Canyon Fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest.
The Canyon Fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest.
Iraqi crude is well-suited to Indian refineries and more will be coming on line as Opec production rises
Canyon fire in Ventura county, north of Los Angeles, is 25% contained but still growing, officials sayHundreds of firefighters and first responders are working to contain a rapidly growing brush fire in a mountainous area of southern California that ha…