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UN chief appoints new Sudan envoy as Khartoum seeks end of UN political mission
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed a personal envoy for Sudan following Khartoum’s demand to shut down the UN political mission in the war-torn country, a UN spokesman said. The UN…
- World
India votes against Israeli settlements in Palestine at the UN
At the United Nations resolution on November 9, India voted against the forced Israeli settlements in “Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan”. Seven countries, including the…
- India
COP28 President Al Jaber praises India for energy vision
Abu Dhabi: UN climate conference COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber on Sunday praised India, the current host of the Presidency of the G20, for its energy transition vision. At the ‘From G20…
- Middle East
UN rehabilitates Somali airport to ease air travel
Mogadishu: The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS), in partnership with the administration of Somalia’s Southwest State, has rehabilitated an airport to improve air travel and movements of people in the…
- Middle East
Over 100 UN employees killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
More than 100 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were killed in airstrikes in Gaza since the start of the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since…
- Middle East
Palestine’s poverty rate to soar by 34% if Gaza war continues: UN
United Nations: A UN report has warned that the poverty rate in Palestine will soar by 34 per cent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, if the war in…
- Middle East
89 UN employees killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
Geneva: Since the latest round of Hamas-Israel war broke out a month ago, 89 UN aid workers have been killed, which is the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict…
- World
Top UN official resigns over ‘text-book case of genocide’ in Gaza
After more than three decades of service, Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber, has resigned from his position in protest over the…
- Middle East
Left with no choice, parents giving salty water to children in Gaza: UN
Gaza: As Gaza faces shortage of essentials, people were forced to give salty water to their kids, UN children aid agency UNICEF said. The shortage that Gaza was facing has been raised…
- Hyderabad
Owaisi questions India’s abstention from UN vote on Gaza, slams PM Modi
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said it is “shocking” that India abstained from the UN General Assembly resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict and termed the abstention as “an inconsistent foreign…
- India
In a first, India votes against UNGA resolution backing Palestine
United Nations: In a first, India has voted against a UN General Assembly resolution backing the Palestine cause. India’s opposition to the resolution on Friday was because it failed to condemn Hamas…
- Middle East
Israel bans UN staff from visiting country in reaction to Guterres’ remarks
Washington: Israel said on Wednesday it was banning UN representatives from visiting the country protesting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ statement that the October 7 attack by Hamas had to be seen…
- World
China breaks silence on Israel-Hamas war
Beijing: Breaking its silence on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday said Beijing hoped that the issue would be resolved in a “just and lasting manner”…
- World
UN chief Guterres warns of Gaza conflict ‘spiralling’
United Nations: While UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the Gaza war “risks spiralling throughout the region”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Iran that Washington will “swiftly and…
- Middle East
Attacks by Hamas didn’t happen in a vacuum: UN chief
New Delhi: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that the attacks by Hamas on October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. “Palestine has been subjected to 56 years of suffocating…
