Canada: Quebec apartment building fire claims three lives
Feb 09, 2019, at 10:50 pm
Quebec City, Feb 9 (IBNS): Three members were killed after a fire broke out at an apartment building in Longueuil, Quebec early Saturday morning, media reports said.
Canada: Quebec mosque killer gets life imprisonment
Feb 09, 2019, at 10:24 pm
Quebec City, Feb 9 (IBNS): Quebec Superior Court on Friday sentenced a Quebec mosque shooter to life imprisonment, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Unknown gunmen kill Intelligence officer in Kabul, Taliban claims responsibility
Feb 09, 2019, at 04:13 pm
Kabul, Feb 9 (IBNS): Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an officer of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Kabul city of Afghanistan, media reports said on Saturday.
New York: US man arrested for trying to join Pakistan-based terror group
Feb 09, 2019, at 04:04 pm
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): A New York man has been charged with attempting and conspiring to provide material support to Lashkar e-Tayyiba (“LeT”), a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization responsible for multiple high-profile attacks, including the infamous Mumbai attacks in Nov. 2008, US officials said.
Scale of displacement across Myanmar ‘very difficult to gauge’, says UN refugee agency
Feb 09, 2019, at 09:52 am
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): Concern over escalating violence in Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states continues to grow, with civilians reportedly forced to flee both internally, and across the border into Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have already sought shelter.
Feb 09, 2019, at 09:49 am
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): The head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has praised Tanzania for the long-standing welcome it offers hundreds of thousands of refugees, describing it as a “regional peacemaker” in an unstable part of Africa, that deserves more international support.
UN ready to rise above political fray and help Venezuelans based ‘on need, and need alone’
Feb 09, 2019, at 09:41 am
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): The situation for ordinary Venezuelans is increasingly critical but the United Nations remains committed to providing humanitarian support, based on “need, and need alone”, said a senior aid official on Friday.
As inequality grows, the UN fights for a fairer world
Feb 09, 2019, at 09:36 am
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the UN’s blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all – calls for a reduction in inequality between and within countries. Nevertheless, global inequality is increasing. So what can be done?
Second meeting between Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un to take place in Hanoi
Feb 09, 2019, at 08:46 am
Washington, Feb 9 (IBNS): The second meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place in Hanoi city of Vietnam on Feb 27-28, officials said.
Canada sees rush of 67,000 new jobs in January
Feb 08, 2019, at 10:00 pm
Ottawa, Feb 8 (IBNS): Canada saw a rush of 67,000 net new jobs in the month of January, Statistics Canada said.
Canada: Quebec court to deliver verdict on Mosque killing incident
Feb 08, 2019, at 09:58 pm
Quebec City, Feb 8 (IBNS): Quebec Superior Court will on Friday deliver its judgement on the case pertaining to the killing of six worshippers at Quebec City mosque by one Alexandre Bissonnette in 2017, media reports said.
US initiative to empower women globally to include projects in India
Feb 08, 2019, at 09:08 pm
Washington DC, Feb 8 (IBNS): The US government has launched a programme to economically empower women around the world and media reports said two projects will be taken up in partnership with the private sector in India.
Brazil: Fire at training ground of football club Flamengo leaves 10 dead
Feb 08, 2019, at 06:07 pm
Brasília, Feb 8 (IBNS): At least 10 people were killed as a fire broke out at a dormitory at the youth team training centre of one of Brazil's biggest football clubs, media reports said on Friday.
Bomb blast rocks Afghanistan's Khost province, three die
Feb 08, 2019, at 03:26 pm
Kabul, Feb 8 (IBNS): At least three people were killed in a bomb blast in southeastern Khost province of Afghanistan, media reports said on Friday.
Feb 08, 2019, at 09:10 am
New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): Evidence collected in Turkey shows on initial examination, that former dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the State of Saudi Arabia,” according to the United Nations expert conducting an independent human rights inquiry into his death.
Million across Yemen ‘just a step away from famine’, with food available but inaccessible
Feb 08, 2019, at 09:01 am
New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
Mosul’s ‘3D contamination’ adds to challenges of deadly mine clearance work
Feb 08, 2019, at 08:56 am
New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): Demining and other explosives clearance operations are ongoing in former ISIL-held areas of Iraq, but the work is painstaking and even more dangerous because of “3D contamination”, the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said on Thursday.
UN rights chief ‘deeply concerned’ over Jehovah’s Witness sentencing in Russia
Feb 08, 2019, at 08:46 am
New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): The sentencing in Russia of a Danish Jehovah’s Witness on Thursday to six years in prison on charges of “organising the activity of a banned extremist organisation” has been described as a “dangerous precedent” by the UN human rights chief.
Feb 08, 2019, at 08:42 am
New York, Feb 8 (IBNS): A newly formed parliamentary committee to amend Myanmar’s problematic constitution was welcomed as a positive move on Thursday by Yanghee Lee, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the country.
Rising landmine blast toll in Afghanistan highlights long-term care needs of survivors
Feb 07, 2019, at 01:56 pm
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): The number of casualties in Afghanistan from landmines and other explosives has more than tripled since 2012, the UN said on Wednesday, in support of a call to provide more long-term support for survivors.
Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming
Feb 07, 2019, at 01:54 pm
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing the past four years were officially the ‘four warmest on record,’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent climate action and increased ambition, ahead of his climate summit in September.
Central African Republic: UN chief hails signing of new peace agreement
Feb 07, 2019, at 10:22 am
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): Following the signing of a peace agreement between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 non-state armed groups active in the country on Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, congratulated all stakeholders and encouraged them to now “live up to their commitments”.
Largest joint UN humanitarian convoy of the war, reaches remote Syrian settlement
Feb 07, 2019, at 10:09 am
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): The largest UN humanitarian convoy of the Syrian civil war reached the remote settlement of Rukban, on the border with Jordan on Wednesday, where it is delivering life-saving assistance to more than 40,000 displaced people, some of whom have been trapped there for years as the eight-year conflict grinds on.
With millions of girls ‘at risk’ today of genital mutilation, UN chief calls for zero tolerance
Feb 07, 2019, at 09:58 am
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): Female genital mutilation, is “an abhorrent human rights violation” still affecting women and girls around the globe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated in his message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, marked on Wednesday.
Feb 07, 2019, at 09:54 am
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, the UN said on Wednesday, warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements, amid continuing economic uncertainty.
Afghanistan: Kidnap gang leader held from Kabul city
Feb 06, 2019, at 04:28 pm
Kabul, Feb 6 (IBNS): Afghanistan security forces have arrested a kidnapping gang leader Obaidullah aka Raees Obaid from Kabul city, media reports said.
Former ISIS sex slaves residing in Canada get threat calls, messages
Feb 06, 2019, at 03:34 pm
Ottawa, Feb 6 (IBNS): Former ISIS sex slaves, who have been sheltered by Canada, are getting calls and messages threatening of rape and murder, media reports said.
Paris: Fire at apartment block kills ten people, injures many
Feb 06, 2019, at 02:14 pm
Paris, Feb 6 (IBNS): Ten people, including a child, have died while many were injured in a fire at an eight-storey building in Paris, media reports said.
Priests, bishops sexually abused nuns, admits Pope
Feb 06, 2019, at 01:06 pm
Vatican City, Feb 6 (IBNS): Pope Francis has admitted that Catholic priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns in a latest scandal which has been alleged, media reports said.
Dramatic drop in South Sudan political violence since peace agreement signing
Feb 06, 2019, at 10:21 am
New York, Feb 6 (IBNS): Since the signing of a September 2018 deal between the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his political rival and former deputy Riek Machar to end conflict in the country, political violence has “dropped dramatically,” David Shearer, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan told reporters on Tuesday.