Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologises for data breaches
Mar 22, 2018, at 02:29 pm
New York, Mar 22 (IBNS): Amid allegations of Cambridge Analytica data misuse, Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence over the issue and said his company committed 'mistakes' in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users.
Nigeria: 110 kidnapped schoolgirls released
Mar 22, 2018, at 02:34 am
Lagos, Mar 21 (IBNS): As many as 110 Nigerian school girls, who were allegedly kidnapped by terrorists from Dapchi town, have been freed, media reports said on Wednesday.
Austin bombings suspect killed, says police
Mar 22, 2018, at 01:55 am
New York, Mar 21 (IBNS): A suspected man, who was associated with several bombing incident in US city of Austin, was killed in an explosion inside his car as authorities closed in, media reports said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: 29 killed in suicide blast
Mar 21, 2018, at 11:17 pm
Kabul, Mar 21 (IBNS): At least 29 people were killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan's Kabul city on Wednesday, media reports said.
Israel admits striking suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007
Mar 21, 2018, at 10:55 pm
Jerusalem, Mar 21 (IBNS): Israel has admitted that in 2007 the country had destroyed a suspected nuclear reactor which was being built in Syria.
Nigeria: Group of kidnapped schoolgirls released
Mar 21, 2018, at 09:38 pm
Lagos, March 21 (IBNS): Several Nigerian girls, who were allegedly kidnapped by terrorists from Dapchi town, have been freed, media reports said.
North Korea says sanctions didn't force it to seek US dialogue
Mar 21, 2018, at 07:22 pm
Pyongyang, Mar 21 (IBNS): It was self confidence and not sanctions that pushed North Korea to seek dialogues with the United States of America and South Korea, the state media said on Tuesday.
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:35 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): Despite a massive humanitarian effort over the past six months in the Eastern Caribbean, Cuba and Haiti, there is still much work to be done to rehabilitate water and sanitation and other infrastructure damaged by powerful hurricanes Irma and Maria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:32 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): People worldwide are being encouraged by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to think about how they can better promote tolerance, inclusion and respect for diversity.
UN rural development agency invests in power and potential of women
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:24 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): Although rural women make up one-fifth of the global population and around 43 per cent of all agricultural workers, inequality restricts their access to land, markets or even the training and technology that could improve their lives and livelihoods, according to the United Nations agency fighting to stamp out hunger and poverty.
Turkey’s 18-month state of emergency has led to profound human rights violations – UN report
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:21 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): The United Nations on Tuesday called on Turkey to end its 18-month-old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in “profound” human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting impact on the country’s socio-economic fabric.
Displacement surges as twin military offensives drive thousands from Afrin and east Ghouta – UN
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:18 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): The humanitarian crisis in Syria is reaching new peaks as hundreds of thousands of people flee the escalating fighting in Eastern Ghouta and Afrin, the latest flashpoints in the long-running conflict, United Nations relief agencies said Tuesday.
Cameroonians pour into Nigeria, stretching scant resources – UN refugee agency
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:13 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): As more and more Anglophone Cameroonians flee a violent crackdown in the region and seek asylum in Nigeria, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday without more funding and assistance, their situation and that of the Nigerian communities hosting them, will become even more desperate.
Mar 21, 2018, at 02:10 pm
New York, Mar 21 (JEN): Severe lack of water affecting two-thirds of the global population for at least part of the year is manifesting into complex challenges, the United Nations food security agency has warned, calling for urgent and comprehensive adaptation efforts to address the situation.
Climate change could force over 140 million to migrate within countries by 2050: World Bank Report
Mar 20, 2018, at 10:28 pm
Washington, Mar 20 (IBNS): The worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see over 140 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050, creating a looming human crisis and threatening the development process, a new World Bank Group report finds.
Xi urges China not to be complacent, warns against separatist attempts
Mar 20, 2018, at 05:37 pm
Beijing, Mar 20 (IBNS): China's President Xi Jingping has urged the National People's Congress that China must not become complacent with its development.
Thousands suffering amid harrowing conditions in east Ghouta and Afrin – UN
Mar 20, 2018, at 02:34 pm
New York, Mar 20 (JEN): The United Nations in Syria is appealing urgently for help to ease the catastrophic situation for tens for thousands of people impacted by fighting in Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, and the northern town of Afrin.
Mar 20, 2018, at 02:31 pm
New York, Mar 20 (JEN): With five billion people at risk of having difficulty accessing adequate water by 2050, finding nature-based solutions, such as China’s rainwater recycling, India’s forest regeneration and Ukraine’s artificial wetlands, is becoming increasingly important, according to a United Nations report released Monday at the world’s largest water-related event in Brazil.
Mar 20, 2018, at 02:27 pm
New York, Mar 20 (JEN): The humanitarian crisis and the resulting suffering will only worsen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) if persistent violence is not brought under control and there is no political transition, the top United Nations relief official warned on Monday.
UN forum to spotlight ways ICT can help beat poverty and boost development
Mar 20, 2018, at 02:24 pm
New York, Mar 20 (JEN): Making information and communication technology (ICT) readily available for vulnerable countries and harnessing it’s potential to help tackle a raft of ills – from disaster risk reduction to reaching ‘zero hunger’ – will be among the issues on the agenda at an annual United Nations information forum that kicked off Monday in Geneva.
Lebanon: UN humanitarian fund to step up support for the most vulnerable
Mar 20, 2018, at 02:21 pm
New York, Mar 20 (JEN): At a time when resources for refugees from Syria is declining, the top United Nations humanitarian official in Lebanon, the country host to some 1.5 million Syrian and several thousand Palestinian refugees, has launched a funding allocation to ensure that critical relief programmes can be sustained.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visits frontline area in Eastern Ghouta
Mar 19, 2018, at 03:11 pm
Damascus, Mar 19 (IBNS): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited a frontline area in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta area on Sunday, media reports said.
Vladimir Putin wins Russian Presidential election, re-elected for another term
Mar 19, 2018, at 02:50 pm
Moscow, Mar 19 (IBNS): Vladimir Putin is all set to rule Russia as its President for another six years after he registered a landslide victory in the Presidential polls on Sunday.
China's Xi Jinping congratulates Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin
Mar 19, 2018, at 02:37 pm
Beijing, Mar 19 (IBNS): Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin on Monday.
Xi Jinping re-elected as Chinese President
Mar 17, 2018, at 03:00 pm
Beijing, Mar 17 (IBNS): At the ongoing first session of the 13th National People's Congress, Xi Jinping was on Saturday re-elected as the President of China.
Mar 17, 2018, at 02:24 pm
New York, Mar 17 (JEN): Thousands of refugees who have fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) to Chad are facing food and shelter shortages the United Nations refugee agency said Friday, warning that this is the largest influx in for years into the small landlocked country.
Brief ceasefire in Douma only piece of good news for civilians in war-torn Syria, UN envoy says
Mar 17, 2018, at 02:18 pm
New York, Mar 17 (JEN): The United Nations mediator for the Syrian conflict told the Security Council on Friday that its three-week old demand for a ceasefire across the war-ravaged country was still not being implemented, and while progress had been made in in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, “the bottom line is, too many civilians are still suffering.”
Gaza requires changed political reality, renewed commitment to avoid total collapse
Mar 17, 2018, at 02:14 pm
New York, Mar 17 (JEN): The lack of a political process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be the single largest impediment to Palestinian development, and an escalation in hostilities could completely break down service delivery in Gaza, a United Nations report said Friday.
Mar 17, 2018, at 02:08 pm
New York, Mar 17 (JEN): In the span of just three days – between 10 and 13 March – more than 4,000 people, mostly terrified women and children, have crossed into Uganda from crisis-gripped eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.
Syria: Children, families killed by airstrikes, shelling in Afrin – UN
Mar 17, 2018, at 02:06 pm
New York, Mar 17 (JEN): Dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the north-western Syrian town of Afrin, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, the United Nations has reported.