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Addis Ababa: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has called for the provision of seeds and fertilizers to farmers in conflict-affected northern Ethiopia ahead of main rainy season. "Seeds and…

United Nations:  India has abstained for the fifth time on a UN resolution on Ukraine, but this time it was on a Russia-sponsored resolution in the Security Council and New Delhi was on the side of Washington and its allies. The…

New Delhi: Diplomats have said that Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations Naseer Ahmad Faiq will vote to "support" the resolution that denounces the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a news agency reported. Myanmar will…

United Nations (New York): In an example of the cost of the Afghanistan liquidity crisis, UN humanitarians said that 100 businesses closed in Jalalabad city. Food shops and other commercial businesses in the city of an estimated 2.2…

United Nations (New York): UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has called for protection of life at a time when traffic accidents kill a life every 24 seconds. "Every 24 seconds a life is cut short because of a road traffic collision.…

United Nations (New York): In a message for World Toilet Day, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on countries to ensure everyone has access to health and sanitation. "Life without a toilet is dirty, dangerous and undignified,"…

United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke on Sunday on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, declaring that nuclear weapons must be eliminated from the world and a new era of…

Islamabad:  Pakistan is gearing up to ramp up the Kashmir dispute against India along with joining the United Nations call for immediate intervention to prevent an expected economic collapse of Afghanistan. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran…

New Delhi: Calling for repurposing damaging incentives to the agriculture sector that is price distorting and environmentally and socially harmful, a new United Nations (UN) report has said reconfiguring agricultural producer support rather…

United Nations: The UN has confirmed a Bloomberg news report about an April 2021 cyberattack on its computers. "We can confirm that unknown attackers were able to breach parts of the UN (communications) infrastructure in April of 2021,"…