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World: Racism, climate and divisions top UN agenda as leaders meet

YoopyaSep 22, 2021June 13, 20230

Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief

17% of food production globally wasted, UN report estimates

YoopyaMar 10, 2021May 20, 20230

Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that

Ethiopia’s forces shoot at, detain UN staffers in Tigray

YoopyaDec 8, 2020June 14, 20230

Ethiopia’s security forces shot at and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to reach part of the embattled Tigray region, a senior official said

Israel’s Netanyahu calls U.N. house of lies ahead of Jerusalem vote

YoopyaDec 21, 2017June 7, 20230

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the United Nations as a house of lies ahead of a vote on Thursday on a draft resolution calling on

Obama and Putin: Awkward moments, few breakthroughs

YoopyaSep 29, 2015July 2, 20230

NEW YORK — U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first formal meeting in more than two years started with an awkward handshake

U.N. chief warns South Sudan’s warring leaders to put people first

YoopyaFeb 4, 2015July 3, 20230

(Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned South Sudan’s leaders on Tuesday that they must put the interests of their people above their own

United Nations Urges North Korea Prosecutions

YoopyaNov 19, 2014July 12, 20230

United Nations members voted decisively on Tuesday for a groundbreaking resolution that condemns North Korea for human rights abuses and for the first time recommends

UNICEF to boost staff in Ebola-hit countries; UN health chief deplores lagging vaccine research

YoopyaNov 4, 2014July 15, 20230

3 November 2014 – As the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today that it plans to boost its staff in countries on the frontlines

Volunteers carry bodies in a centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres for Ebola patients in Kailahun

YoopyaOct 9, 2014July 15, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases by the end of Oct. 5, with no

Crime and gangs: the path to battle for Australia’s Islamist radicals

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – The children of refugees who fled Lebanon’s civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a majority of Australian militants fighting in