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GENEVA — This year's surprising spike in dengue infections globally represents a potentially high public health threat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.The warning came as WHO reported more than five million dengue infections and 5,000 deaths from the disease worldwide this year.Briefing journalists at the ...

#Pakistan News U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council on Wednesday of an impending "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza and urged its members to demand an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. His letter to the council's 15 members said Gaza's humanitarian system was at risk ...

ACCRA, Ghana — The transition to renewable energy at UN peacekeeping missions helps to ensure the safety and security of uniformed personnel serving in the field, a senior official said on Tuesday.Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare was speaking at the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial conference, which opened in Accra, Ghana.Delegates from ...

NEW DELHI, Dec 6: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah defended the first PM of the country Jawaharlal Nehru, after Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday blamed Nehru for “two major blunders”- one of them to take the Kashmir issue to the United Nations, saying that ...

GENEVA/KABUL — The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) and humanitarian partners are providing critical aid at border crossing points between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the face of a surge in forced returns of Afghan nationals.According to IOM, in the past two months alone, nearly 375,000 Afghans left Pakistan, ...

More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations said Monday.“A staggering 347 million children under 18 are exposed to high or extremely high water scarcity in South Asia, the highest ...

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan slammed Pakistan for the treatment meted out to its nationals, saying the decision to expel refugees was “unilateral” as it was taken by Islamabad without consulting Kabul.In an audio clip shared on social media, Afghanistan’s interim defence minister, Mullah Muhammad Yaqub Mujahid, criticised Pakistan’s caretaker government, headed ...

The number of people displaced from their homes worldwide is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday – a record figure. Issued on: 25/10/2023 - 22:06 2 min The main drivers in the first half of 2023 were the conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar and ...

GENEVA — At the concluding segment of the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday in Geneva, several States seized the opportunity to address the conflict engulfing Gaza and Israel, now in its sixth day.Some 22 countries and one non-governmental organization (NGO) took the floor, turning ...

ISLAMABAD The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake in Afghanistan is devastating and sought support for the war-torn country.“As the needs of those affected continue to rise, UNHCR and partners are on the ground providing critical assistance and distributing relief items,” ...