Brazilian President outlines action taken to address COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:58 pm
New York: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has highlighted social and economic measures his administration implemented, to address the COVID-19 pandemic and what he views as the politicization of the virus in South America’s largest country.
Renew ‘collective commitment to multilateralism’, urges Assembly President
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:54 pm
New York: The COVID-19 pandemic may have prevented world leaders coming to New York to address the General Assembly in person, but the president of the world body stressed on Tuesday that the need for deliberation, is “higher than ever”.
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:44 pm
New York: In his centerpiece address to the historic and unprecedented 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again call for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, by the end of the year.
Violence leaves more than 300,000 ‘completely reliant’ on assistance in northern Mozambique
Sep 23, 2020, at 02:35 pm
New York: Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
Apple CEO hopes employees will be able to return to office next year
Sep 22, 2020, at 10:50 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed hope that the company's employees will be able to return to their regular workplaces next year, adding that in the meantime 85-90 percent of staff continue to work remotely amid the coronavirus pandemic.
UK's Boris Johnson to address Parliament on COVID-19 as cases, deaths surge
Sep 22, 2020, at 10:36 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a statement on the coronavirus situation in the United Kingdom at the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, the parliament confirmed.
DPRK nuclear activities still ‘cause for serious concern’, says UN atomic energy chief
Sep 22, 2020, at 03:29 pm
New York: Nuclear activities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) “remain a cause for serious concern”, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in Vienna on Monday.
Stand together and build a just world, UN chief says in message for International Day of Peace
Sep 22, 2020, at 03:15 pm
New York: Even amid the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, people everywhere must continue to make peace a priority, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday.
Spain violated inclusive education right of child with disabilities, independent committee finds
Sep 22, 2020, at 03:03 pm
New York: Spain violated the right to inclusive education of a child with disabilities, an independent UN human rights committee has found, calling on the country to end any educational segregation of students with disabilities in both special education and mainstream schools.
Almost dozen participants in Anti-Government demonstrations in Israel arrested: Reports
Sep 21, 2020, at 03:10 pm
Tel Aviv/Sputnik: - Nearly a dozen people were arrested during anti-government demonstrations in Israel, where a new coronavirus-related lockdown has been introduced, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reports.
Belarusian police arresting protesters in Minsk
Sep 21, 2020, at 12:53 am
Moscow/Sputnik: Police in the Belarusian capital of Minsk began conducting arrests among people who gathered for a rally in the city center close to the presidential palace, Natallya Hanusevich, a spokeswoman for the police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee, told Sputnik on Sunday.
UK Health Minister tells public to follow COVID-19 rules or face national lock down
Sep 21, 2020, at 12:34 am
London/Sputnik: UK Health Minister Matt Hancock urged people on Sunday to follow social distancing restrictions to avoid another national lockdown, as the United Kingdom is on the brink of a second wave of COVID-19.
Facebook fears ban on sending EU user data to US will halt Europe operations : Reports
Sep 21, 2020, at 12:21 am
Moscow/Sputnik: Facebook has told Ireland’s High Court that not being able to send data on EU users to the United States, as per a regulator order, might endanger its operations in Europe, the Sunday Business Post reported, citing court papers.
Colombia reopens international flights amid COVID-19
Sep 20, 2020, at 01:52 pm
Bogota/Xinhua: Colombian President Ivan Duque announced the reopening of international flights on Sunday after five months of closure due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Sep 19, 2020, at 02:37 pm
New York: While deep distrust persists among warring parties in Syria, a “faint but real ray of hope” emerged with the convening in Geneva of the Constitutional Committee after a nine-month hiatus, the top UN envoy helping chart a path out of the near decade-long conflict, told the Security Council on Friday.
Belarus crisis under the spotlight at Human Rights Council
Sep 19, 2020, at 02:31 pm
New York: The Belarus Government should end “violent crackdowns” and “increasing repression” against protesters who are still contesting the result of last month's Presidential elections, UN deputy rights chief Nada Al Nashif told the Human Rights Council on Friday.
UN rights chief calls for Turkey to probe violations in northern Syria
Sep 19, 2020, at 02:13 pm
New York: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Turkey to launch an immediate independent investigation into violations and abuses committed in parts of north, northwest and northeast Syria, which are under the control of its forces and affiliated armed groups.
Sep 19, 2020, at 03:35 am
Wellington: After India, New Zealand has warned that collection of information on New Zealanders by a Chinese company could hit national security of the nation.
Sep 18, 2020, at 11:56 pm
The United Nations is marking the first ever International Equal Pay Day, on Friday, drawing attention to the gender pay gap – the difference between what a woman earns compared to a man, for work of equal value – and the systemic inequalities it is rooted in.
Sep 18, 2020, at 11:48 pm
New York: The global hunger crisis caused by conflict – and now compounded by COVID-19 – is moving into a dangerous phase, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, stressing that without resources, a wave of famine could sweep the globe, overwhelming nations already weakened by years of instability.
‘Tens of millions of Yemenis’ devastated by unabated war and COVID-19
Sep 18, 2020, at 11:18 pm
New York: More than five years of war have “devastated the lives of tens of millions of Yemenis”, with experts estimating that up to one million may have been affected by COVID-19, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Thursday.
Bolster fragile world to emerge stronger, UN chief urges, marking Peace Day
Sep 18, 2020, at 11:06 pm
New York: A Japanese principle that finds beauty in broken things, should serve as guidance for today’s fractured world as we navigate out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday during the annual ceremony at UN Headquarters to mark the International Day of Peace on 21 September.
Human rights violations continue in Burundi under new Government: UN report
Sep 18, 2020, at 10:21 pm
New York: UN-appointed investigators have issued fresh warnings about ongoing rights violations and impunity in Burundi, since the death of former President Pierre Nkurunziza, who ran for a third term in 2015, in a move deemed by opposition to be unconstitutional.
COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, new study finds
Sep 18, 2020, at 09:44 pm
New York: The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty – deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – a new UN study has found.
Venezuela abuses amounted to crimes against humanity: UN-appointed panel
Sep 18, 2020, at 02:34 pm
New York: Grave rights violations against anti-government protesters in Venezuela, “amounted to crimes against humanity”, UN-appointed rights investigators said in their first report on abuses inside the Latin American nation.
Governments urged to protect poor against modern slavery, step up development financing
Sep 18, 2020, at 02:26 pm
NewYork: Unless governments act now, millions of the world’s most vulnerable people could be pushed into contemporary forms of slavery and other exploitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN independent human rights expert has said.
Gunmen kill 2 senior police officers in NW Nigeria attack
Sep 18, 2020, at 01:53 pm
Abuja/Xinhua: Two senior police officers were shot dead on Friday and another seriously wounded as gunmen invaded a town in Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto, police said.
Greece: 30 illegal Pakistanis held captive in Crete
Sep 18, 2020, at 04:56 am
Athens: As many as 30 Pakistanis, who were living illegally in Greece, have been held due to their 'aggressive behaviour', media reports said.
UK Prime Minister congratulates Japan's Suga on election as Prime Minister
Sep 16, 2020, at 11:20 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday congratulated Yoshihide Suga on winning the race for the position of Japan's new prime minister and expressed hope to cooperate and further develop relations between Tokyo and London.
Large fire breaks out in Italian port city
Sep 16, 2020, at 10:46 pm
Rome/Xinhua: A huge blaze broke out in the northeastern Italian port city of Ancona early Wednesday morning, local media reported.