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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,"…

New Delhi:  UN Women, the United Nations entity for gender equality, has criticised the Talibans decision to drop the Ministry for Women from among the institutions of government in Afghanistan. "I am disappointed by the apparent…

United Nations: India will keep the spotlight on terrorism during its presidency of the Security Council and make a renewed push for international efforts to combat the scourge in all its manifestations, according to India's Permanent…

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the official opening of the coastal road in Libya, in the presence of the UN Support Mission in Libya. Through a statement attributable to his deputy spokesperson Farhan…

United Nations: Martin Griffiths, the new UN emergency relief coordinator, visited a site for internally displaced people in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, a spokesperson said. During the visit on Friday, humanitarian partners of…