UN chief and senior officials show solidarity with DR Congo during three-day visit
Sep 01, 2019, at 04:14 pm
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): United Nations chief António Guterres and senior members of the UN, have embarked on a three-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where civilians are facing insecurity and ongoing health crises, including a year-long Ebola epidemic which has claimed more than 2,000 lives.
US: 5 killed, 21 injured in Texas mass shooting
Sep 01, 2019, at 03:00 pm
Washington, Sep 1 (IBNS): At least five people got killed and 21 injured in a mass shooting incident in Texas in the United States.
Bangladesh govt withdraws 139 NGO's from Rohingya camps
Sep 01, 2019, at 11:33 am
Dhaka, Sep 1 (UNI) The Bangladesh authorities have withdrawn the assistance of 41 non-government organizations at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox Bazar due to their involvement in malpractice.
Nearly thirty injured as huge screen collapses at rap concert in Germany
Sep 01, 2019, at 11:18 am
Berlin, Sept 1 (UNI) At least 28 people were injured after a huge screen collapsed at a rap concert in Western Germany's Essen city.
Six al-Shabab militants killed, 9 injured in southern Somali town
Aug 31, 2019, at 10:12 pm
Mogadishu, Aug 31 (Xinhua/UNI) Six al-Shabab militants were killed and nine others injured on Friday in a joint offensive by Somali army and Jubbaland state forces, a military official said on Saturday.
RAB arrest two suspected terrorists from Dhaka
Aug 31, 2019, at 08:41 pm
Dhaka, Aug 31 (IBNS): The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested two suspected terrorists from Sadarghat area of Dhaka city in Bangladesh, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan International Airlines lays off 1000 surplus employees
Aug 31, 2019, at 08:30 pm
Rawalpindi, Aug 31 (IBNS): The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has laid off 1000 surplus employees to reduce its operational costs, media reports said.
Aug 31, 2019, at 07:24 pm
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): A criminal complaint filed on Friday in federal court in Brooklyn charged Awais Chudhary, 19, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur has not returned home: Family member
Aug 31, 2019, at 07:08 pm
Islamabad, Aug 31 (IBNS): The family members of Jagjit Kaur, who was allegedly abducted and forcefully converted to Islam, have rejected reports that their girl has returned home.
Activist Greta Thunberg gets preview of UNHQ ahead of climate summit
Aug 31, 2019, at 06:36 pm
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): Two days after disembarking from her carbon-free yacht in New York, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg paid a visit to UN Headquarters on Friday, after joining participants of her global climate strike movement, Fridays for Future, at the Organization’s gates.
Hong Kong witnesses another day of protest as agitators defy ban on march
Aug 31, 2019, at 06:21 pm
Hong Kong City, Aug 31 (IBNS): Hong Kong witnessed another day of protests on Saturday as thousands of anti-government agitators defied ban and marched through the city, media reports said.
Over 40 killed in northern Afghan city clashes
Aug 31, 2019, at 05:44 pm
Kabul, Aug, 31 (Xinhua/UNI) At least three Afghan security forces and 38 Taliban militants were killed during clashes in Kunduz city, capital of northern Kunduz province, on Saturday, as security forces fought a tense battle to evict the militants from the city, authorities said.
Pakistan Minister gets electric shock after he criticises Narendra Modi
Aug 31, 2019, at 04:07 pm
Islamabad, Aug 31 (IBNS): Pakistan Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who on Friday was protesting against New Delhi's move to abrogate Article 370, received an electric shock at a time when he was criticising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pakistan: Sikh girl who was abducted and converted to Islam returned
Aug 31, 2019, at 01:21 pm
Islamabad, Aug 31 (IBNS): The minor Sikh girl, who was abducted and forcefully converted to Islam, has been sent back to her parents in Pakistan'a Punjab, media reports said.
More than half of world’s refugee children ‘do not get an education’, warns UNHCR
Aug 31, 2019, at 10:21 am
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday, in an appeal to host countries to back more inclusive policies to prevent them from “languishing” in camps for years and losing hope.
Activists arrested in Hong Kong: Joshua Wong, others charged
Aug 31, 2019, at 12:43 am
Hong Kong City, Aug 30 (IBNS): Three Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been charged in connection with the protest at police headquarters, media reports said.
Aug 31, 2019, at 12:19 am
Toronto/Lahore/New Delhi, Aug 30 (IBNS): As Pakistan started fire-fighting after a young Sikh girl was kidnapped and allegedly forcefully converted to Islam before she was married to a Muslim man in the Punjab province of the Islamic nation, a Sikh leader from Canada has threatened to boycott the International Sikh Convention which is scheduled to be held in Lahore on Saturday.
Syrian army gains control over 10 villages east of Khan Sheikhoun - Military Source
Aug 30, 2019, at 05:46 pm
Damascus, Aug 30 (Sputnik) Syrian forces, as of Friday morning, have gained control over 10 villages located east of the already liberated town of Khan Sheikhoun in the province of Idlib, a Syrian military source told Sputnik.
Bangladesh: Constable beaten up by mob for 'sexual harassment'
Aug 30, 2019, at 03:33 pm
Dhaka, Aug 30 (IBNS): Amid allegations of sexual harassment against him, an angry mob beat up a police constable in Bangladesh's Rajshahi area, media reports said on Friday.
Forced conversion of Sikh woman to Islam in Pakistan: Indian politicians express shock
Aug 30, 2019, at 03:16 pm
Mumbai, Aug 30 (IBNS): Indian politicians, including Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, on Friday, expressed their shocks over the report of forced conversion of a Sikh woman to Islam and then making her marry a Muslim man in Pakistan.
Afghanistan: Student among 6 rescued from a Taliban prison
Aug 30, 2019, at 02:58 pm
Kabul, Aug 30 (IBNS): During an operation conducted in Afghanistan's south-eastern Ghazni province, Afghan Special Forces released six people from Taliban prison, media reports said.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan's office faces power cut over non-payment of bills
Aug 30, 2019, at 12:56 pm
Islamabad, Aug 30 (IBNS): In a major embarrassment, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's secretariat is facing power cut over the dues, media reports said.
Sikh girl abducted, converted to Islam and then married to Muslim man in Pakistan
Aug 30, 2019, at 12:49 pm
Lahore: Showing yet another dark chapter of atrocities on minorities in Pakistan, a Sikh girl has allegedly been abducted and forcefully converted in Pakistan's Nankana Sahib city.
Aug 30, 2019, at 10:26 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): Despite an agreement signed nearly a year ago on a halt to further escalation in Syria’s war-battered Idlib, “the bombing and fighting go on in plain sight, day in and day out”, the UN humanitarian chief told the Security Council on Thursday.
Venezuela migrant crisis begs a ‘coherent, predictable and harmonized’ response: UNHCR
Aug 30, 2019, at 10:21 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): There is “no end in sight” to the massive movement of Venezuelan migrants and refugees, now at around 4.3 million in number, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) shared on Thursday.
'Ground Zero': Report from the former Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan
Aug 30, 2019, at 10:20 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): Every year on August 29, at the initiative of Kazakhstan, the UN and its Member States mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests. This year, the Day coincides with the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. UN News travelled to the remote, eerily beautiful region, for this report.
Aug 30, 2019, at 10:10 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): “Little undermines development like disaster,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told attendees at a thematic session on Africa and climate change, on day two of the Tokyo international Conference on African Development (TICAD), now in its seventh year.
Aug 30, 2019, at 10:06 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): The legacy of nuclear testing is “nothing but destruction,” and in a world of rising tensions, “our collective security depends” on bringing a global treaty into force that bans nuclear explosions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
Hong Kong Protests: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested
Aug 30, 2019, at 09:39 am
Hong Kong City, Aug 30 (IBNS): The Demosisto party said its secretary-general Joshua Wong, a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, has been arrested by the police in the city on Friday.
Full-blown India-Pak war likely in October or November: Pakistan Minister
Aug 29, 2019, at 03:25 pm
Islamabad, Aug 29 (IBNS): A Pakistan federal minister has predicted that a full-blown war between his country and India is likely to take place in the month of October or November, media reports said.