UN migration agency reports surge in displacement from Mosul as fighting intensifies
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:08 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): The United Nations migration agency today reported thousands of new arrivals at Iraqi sites for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing Mosul’s western sector where fighting is taking place between the Government forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) terrorists.
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:06 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): A senior United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official is calling the routes from sub-Saharan Africa into Libya and across the sea to Europe one of the “world’s deadliest and most dangerous for children and women,†as the agency reported that nearly half of the women and children interviewed after making the voyage were raped.
Yemen: UN verifies nearly 1,500 boys recruited for use in armed conflict
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:05 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday urged all warring parties in Yemen to immediately release child soldiers, noting that the UN has verified the recruitment of 1,476 children, all boys, between 26 March 2015 and 31 January 2017.
South Sudan: UN official calls for unfettered relief access to avert further catastrophe
Mar 01, 2017, at 06:04 am
New York, Mar 1 (Just Earth News): With hundreds of thousands in need of assistance in famine-struck parts of South Sudan and rising insecurity hampering relief work, a senior United Nations relief official in the country has called on all parties to ensure that humanitarians have immediate, safe and unhindered access across the nation.
Trump meets CEOs of U.S. health insurance companies
Feb 28, 2017, at 06:42 pm
Washington, Feb 28 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump has met CEOs of U.S. health insurance companies.
Feb 28, 2017, at 05:41 pm
Houston, Feb 28 (IBNS) : Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called upon President Donald Trump to speak out against hate crimes following the murder of an Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, though White House made a statement, describing the last week's incident as "disturbing."
Pentagon spokesman discusses ISIS preliminary plan
Feb 28, 2017, at 03:20 pm
Washington, Feb 28 (IBNS): Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will present a preliminary version of the Pentagon’s new plan to rapidly defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during a meeting of the White House Principals Committee, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said here.
In Yemen, UN aid chief rallies support for relief efforts to prevent famine
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:19 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The parties to the conflict in Yemen need to continue providing humanitarian access, and the international community needs to step up its funding for life-saving operations, the United Nations relief aid chief said on Monday during his visit to the port city of Aden.
Refugees and migrants taking 'enormous risks' to reach Europe – UN agency
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:19 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): Increased border restrictions and lack of accessible legal ways to reach Europe have caused refugees and migrants to take more “diversified and dangerous journeys,†such as relying on people-smugglers or using flimsy boats to cross rough seas, a new report by the United Nations refugee agency has revealed.
Germany: UN rights panel highlights racial profiling against people of African descent
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:18 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): People of African descent in Germany suffer racial discrimination, Afrophobia and racial profiling in their daily lives, but their situation remains largely invisible to the wider society, a United Nations expert panel said on Monday at the end of its first official visit to the country.
Families report skyrocketing food prices, dire conditions in western Mosul – UN agency
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:17 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations food relief agency on Monday said it is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation facing more than 750,000 people living in dire conditions in the western sections of Iraq's Mosul city, where fighting is taking place between the Government forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) terrorists.
Kosovo: Talks between Belgrade and Pristina 'essential' to peace, UN envoy tells Security Council
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:16 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): There is no alternative to dialogue, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo on Monday told the Security Council, citing the importance of high-level talks between Belgrade and Pristina, and calling for continued international engagement to maintain peace and stability in Kosovo and the wider Balkans region.
UN health agency lists antibiotic-resistant bacteria which pose human threat
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:15 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): The United Nations health agency on Monday published its first-ever catalogue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Drought threatens 1.5 million Somalis; UN health agency scales up response
Feb 28, 2017, at 01:15 pm
New York, Feb 28 (Just Earth News): Less than half of the people in Somalia have access to basic health services, the United Nations health agency on Monday said, announcing that it is scaling up its response in the country amid a severe drought and worsening food crisis.
In Geneva, UN urges upholding human rights amid rising populism and extremism
Feb 28, 2017, at 04:53 am
New York, Feb 27 (Just Earth News): Disregard for human rights is a “disease,†United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday told the opening session of the UN Human Rights Council, urging Member States to uphold the rights of all people in the face of rising populism and extremism.
UN rights expert calls on Myanmar authorities to protect Rohingya population
Feb 28, 2017, at 04:52 am
New York, Feb 27 (Just Earth News): Concluding a four-day visit to parts of Bangladesh where she met with members of Myanmar's Rohingya community who fled the violence there following attacks on a border post in early October and the ensuing military operations, a United Nations expert called for urgent action by the Government of Myanmar to end the suffering of the Rohingya population in the country.
Afghanistan: Eight ISIS militants killed in airstrikes
Feb 27, 2017, at 10:43 pm
Kabul, Feb 27 (IBNS): At least eight ISIS loyalists have been killed in separate airstrikes in Afghanistan, local Khaama Press reported.
Afghanistan: A dozen Taliban insurgents, including key leader, killed in airstrike
Feb 27, 2017, at 10:40 pm
Kabul, Feb 27 (IBNS): At least 12 Taliban militants, including a key leader, were killed in an airstrike conducted in Afghanistan's Kunduz province by foreign forces, local Khaama Press said.
Fire breaks out in Dhaka factory
Feb 27, 2017, at 06:41 pm
Dhaka, Feb 27 (IBNS): A fire broke out at a shoe factory in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, media reports said.
Sri Lanka: Prison bus shot at, 7 killed
Feb 27, 2017, at 06:18 pm
Colombo, Feb 27 (IBNS): At least seven people were killed as a prison bus was shot in Sri Lanka's Kalutara area on Monday, media reports said.
Feb 27, 2017, at 04:30 am
New York, Feb 26 (Just Earth News): Deeply concerned about increased tensions in the vicinity of Guerguerat in the buffer strip in southern Western Sahara between the Moroccan berm and the Mauritanian border, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday called on Morocco and Frente Polisario to “take all necessary steps†to avoid escalation.
Feb 27, 2017, at 04:28 am
New York, Feb 26 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the recent spate of violence in the south-central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling on the Government to “immediately dispatch a credible and impartial investigation.â€
Taliban shadow governor killed, claims Afghanistan
Feb 27, 2017, at 03:12 am
Kabul, Feb 26 (IBNS): Afghanistan security forces have killed 21 militants, including Taliban’s appointed governor for Urozgan province and a local commander, while conducting joined offensive operations, officials said on Sunday.
Afghanistan: 42 civilians released by ISIS
Feb 26, 2017, at 10:49 pm
Kabul, Feb 26 (IBNS): At least 42 civilians were released by ISIS in Afghanistan's Nangarhar area on Sunday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Bomb found, defused in Quetta
Feb 26, 2017, at 10:23 pm
Quetta, Feb 26 (IBNS): A bomb was found in Pakistan's Quetta area, media reports said on Sunday.
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Feb 26, 2017, at 06:30 pm
Kansas, Feb 26 (IBNS): While the Kansas bar shooting incident in which an Indian engineer was shot dead and two others were injured is considered to be a hate crime, a long time neighbour of the accused said he was a "drunken mess" after his father died, media reports said.
Feb 25, 2017, at 10:29 pm
Beijing, Feb 25 (IBNS): A hotel fire in China's Jiangxi Province killed at least 10 people on Saturday, media reports said.
Delegation CPIFA meets Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs
Feb 25, 2017, at 09:37 pm
Islamabad, Feb 25 (IBNS): A delegation of Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA), led by Ambassador Lu Shumin, called on Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, at the Foreign Office.
Slain Indian engineer wife seeks answer on rising hate crimes from US Govt
Feb 25, 2017, at 07:31 pm
Houston, Feb 25 (IBNS) : The wife of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the Indian engineer who was shot dead in a US bar has sought answers from the US Government to what she perceived was a spread in American hate crimes.
Huge fire in China's luxury hotel, several feared trapped
Feb 25, 2017, at 05:34 pm
Beijing, Feb 25 (IBNS) : Several people were feared trapped as a major fire broke out in a multi-storey luxury hotel in east China’s Jiangxi Province on Saturday, state-run news agency Xinhua said.