Beirut, May 14 (IANS) At least 59 children were reportedly killed or injured in Lebanon over the past week despite a ceasefire agreement, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, warning of deepening physical and psychological harm among young survivors. According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, at least 23 children have been killed and 93 injured since the ceasefire took effect at midnight between April 16 and 17, bringing the total number of child casualties since March 2 to 200 killed …
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United Nations, May 14 (IANS) UN humanitarians have reported an alarming escalation of armed violence since Sunday in a neighbourhood in Haiti’s Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.The violence in Cite Soleil has forced more than 5,300 people to flee their homes. More than half of them have sought shelter in 12 sites, while many others are being hosted by already overstretched communities, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday (local time), citing figur…
United Nations, May 14 (IANS) UN humanitarians have said that aid is being distributed in war-torn southwestern Sudan, while an amount of 12 million US dollars is targeted for famine relief in the neighbouring country of South Sudan. “The UN and its humanitarian partners continue to respond to humanitarian needs across Sudan,” said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The office said that in the Kordofan region, aid organisations are providing life-saving support to …
Washington, May 13 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) have called on the United States President Donald Trump to directly raise China’s “ongoing genocide” and “colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and Tibet during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.President Trump began his state visit to China on Wednesday for a high-stakes two-day summit, marking the first visit by a sitting US President to the …
United Nations, May 13 (IANS) A former president of the General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, has entered the race to become the next secretary-general, according to Assembly president’s Spokesperson La Neice Collins.The government of the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda made her nomination, Collins said on Tuesday.Espinosa from Ecuador is the fifth candidate in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres, who finishes his second term at the end of this year.She joins two other …
Kabul, May 12 (IANS) At least 372 Afghan civilians have been killed and 397 injured between January 1 and March 31 this year due to cross-border violence between the Pakistani military and Afghan forces, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.The Human Rights Service of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented over 750 civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan because of cross-border armed violence between Afghanistan’s “de facto” security forces and Pakistani …
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar will chair the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting set to be hosted by India on May 14-15, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Tuesday. Addressing a weekly media briefing on Tuesday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that BRICS Foreign Ministers and heads of delegations from member and partner countries will participate in the meeting and also call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”India will host the BRICS Fore…
Kabul, May 12 (IANS) The United Nations has stated that hunger and food security are deteriorating in Afghanistan, with women and children facing the most consequences amid economic and humanitarian challenges, local media reported on Tuesday. The UN agencies said that Afghanistan continue to face problems due to overlapping crises, including economic collapse, unemployment and climate-related shocks that have impacted livelihoods across the country. Increasing regional tensions have caused an i…
United Nations, May 12 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called for moving away from the “uni-dimensional narrative” about mathematics and the sciences to one based on a “democratisation of history” that recognises India’s foundational contributions.Inaugurating an exhibition on India’s contribution to mathematics here on Monday, he cited the example of the binary system developed in India in the third century, on the foundation of which rest the digital age and the w…
United Nations, May 12 (IANS) Airstrikes and drone attacks in Sudan’s Kordofan and Darfur states have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children, UN humanitarians have said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday (local time) said its local sources reported that on Friday, strikes in South Kordofan and North Kordofan states killed at least 26 civilians. Armed clashes and additional airstrikes were also reported around El Obeid and the town of Ba…