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Environmental leaders from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday to launch a fund to support global conservation, and the United Nations called for contributions to help meet goals including protection of 30 percent of…
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More than 200 members of Afghanistan’s former military, law enforcement and government have been killed since the Taliban took over despite a “general amnesty” for old enemies, the UN mission in Afghanistan said. At least 218 extrajudicial…
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A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people and wounded more than 100 on Saturday, in what the UN denounced as a “heinous” attack. The strike came during the Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council Wednesday over the plight of the 120,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that Armenia says are blockaded by Azerbaijan and facing a humanitarian crisis.…
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A top United Nations (UN) expert has said the world is likely to face major food supplies disruption even before the temperature rise touches 1.5*C. The countries across the world are committed to keep the temperature rise to below 1.5*C…
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The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting on artificial intelligence on Tuesday where China said the technology should not become a “runaway horse” and the United States warned against its use to censor or repress people.…
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Routine vaccination of children is picking up again after a dramatic drop during the Covid-19 crisis, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that dangerous gaps remain. Four million more children received routine childhood vaccines last…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of Russia’s agricultural bank to the…
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The UN’s human rights chief on Tuesday said he was “immensely sympathetic” toward the millions of people outraged by acts that target “their deepest values and beliefs.” Volker Turk said that recent incidents involving the burning of the…
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The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record. “If we persist in delaying…
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