Sep 03, 2018, at 12:24 pm
Naypyidaw, Sep 3 (IBNS): Two Reuters journalists, who covered the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, were found guilty of defying state secrets act and handed a seven-year-jail-term, by a country court.
UN chief urges calm as violence erupts in Libyan capital
Sep 03, 2018, at 09:21 am
New York, Sept 3 (IBNS): Condemning the escalation of violence in and around the Libyan capital, Tripoli, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on all parties to immediately cease hostilities and grant humanitarian relief to those in need.
Brazil: Massive fire destroys National Museum
Sep 03, 2018, at 09:10 am
Rio de Janeiro, Sept 3 (IBNS): A fire broke out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro which left the 200-year-old structure destroyed, media reports said on Monday.
Afghanistan: Two blasts leave 6 cops hurt
Sep 03, 2018, at 08:55 am
Kabul, Sept 3 (IBNS): Two bomb blasts in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on Sunday left at least six police personnel injured, media reports said.
Pakistan: Imran Khan says implementation of 100-day plan is a primary target of his government
Sep 02, 2018, at 09:06 pm
Islamabad, Sept 2 (IBNS): Pakistan's new PM Imran Khan has informed the bureaucracy and the Punjab cabinet during his recent meeting that his government's primary target is to implement the 100-day plan.
Imran Khan launches one-day tree plantation campaign in Pakistan
Sep 02, 2018, at 08:48 pm
Islamabad, Sept 2 (IBNS): Pakistan's new PM Imran Khan on Sunday launched one-day tree plantation campaign across the nation.
Afghanistan: Three people killed in helicopter crash
Sep 02, 2018, at 05:02 pm
Kabul, Sept 2 (IBNS): A helicopter crash in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province left at least three people killed on Sunday, media reports said.
Mauritania: UN chief urges peaceful, credible elections
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:28 pm
New York, Sept 2 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on all parties in Mauritania to ensure peaceful and credible elections as the country holds legislative, regional and municipal polls on Saturday.
UN urges countries to step up assistance for Palestine refugees
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:23 pm
New York, Sept 2 (IBNS): The United Nations said it regrets the decision of the United States to stop funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and called on other countries to help fill the remaining financial gap.
Somalia: Blast in Mogadishu kills 3
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:19 pm
Mogadishu, Sept 2 (IBNS): At least three people were killed and 14 others were injured when a suicide bomber attacked a government office here on Sunday, media reports said.
US military to cancel $300m aid to Pakistan over failure to act against terror groups
Sep 02, 2018, at 11:04 am
Washington, Sept 2 (IBNS): Amid the toughening of the stand on Pakistan by the Donald Trump administration, the US military has declared that it will cancel the $300m (£230m) aid to the South Asian nation as the latter has failed to take action against militant groups operating from its soil.
No political necessity to keep Canada in new NAFTA deal: US President Trump
Sep 01, 2018, at 10:12 pm
Washington/Ottawa, Sept 1 (IBNS): Raising his voice once against against Canada over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), US President Donald Trump on Saturday said there is no political necessity to keep his neighbouring country in the new deal.
Canada: Man stabbed multiple times in streetcar at Toronto
Sep 01, 2018, at 09:53 pm
Toronto, Sept 1 (IBNS): A man was found with multiple stabs inside a streetcar in Toronto on Saturday morning, media reports said.
Roadside bombing leaves two officials injured in Afghanistan
Sep 01, 2018, at 05:33 pm
Kabul, Sept 1 (IBNS): A roadside bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province left at least two senior officials wounded, media reports said on Saturday.
Nicaragua banishes UN human rights team for critical report
Sep 01, 2018, at 01:22 pm
Managua, Sept 1 (IBNS): The Nicaraguan government has ordered a team of United nations human rights to leave the country, after the latter submitted a report critical of President Daniel Ortega's administration.
America severs ties with UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA
Sep 01, 2018, at 11:43 am
Washington, Sept 1 (IBNS): The Donald Trump administration has officially ended its ties with UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, reports said.
Brazil's top electoral court bars ex-President Lula from running as a presidential candidate
Sep 01, 2018, at 11:18 am
Brasilia, Sept 1 (IBNS): A top electoral court in Brazil has disallowed tainted former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from contesting in the upcoming election.
US Secretary of Defence James Mattis to visit India
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:46 am
Washington, Sept 1 (IBNS): US Secretary of Defence James Mattis will visit India to attend the “two-plus-two” meeting of defense and diplomatic leaders in New Delhi next week, officials said.
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:34 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Though 2017 saw a sharp decline in casualties as a result of the use of cluster munitions compared to the previous year, two conflicts – in Syria and Yemen – accounted for the vast majority of the victims, a new United Nations-backed civil society report has found.
Development gains unsustainable without cyber-diplomacy, UN official says
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:27 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Hacking, child sexual exploitation and other cybercrimes could keep countries from reaching their development goals, warns a United Nations official who is urging Governments and private sectors to rethink how they work together.
Food, security and peace desperately needed in Mali – UN relief chief
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:24 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): A senior United Nations relief official has called for greater international attention to the plight of millions in Africa’s Mali, where worsening intercommunal violence and armed group attacks are complicating an already complex humanitarian emergency.
Act now to save children from rise in climate-driven extreme weather – UNICEF
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:20 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Governments are being pressed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to act now to safeguard younger generations from the immediate and long-term impacts of so-called “extreme weather events.”
Living a life in the ruins of Syria
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:17 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Many people in Syria are trying to lead “a normal life amidst the ruins” of their country devastated by years of conflict; that’s according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who visited the Syrian city of Douma this week.
Refugees overcrowded to ‘boiling point’ on Greek island, warns UN agency
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:10 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): The Government of Greece has been urged by the United Nations to do more to help thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants who have been “crammed” into island reception centres, amid reports that children have tried to take their own lives there.
Amsterdam: Suspect shot after double stabbing in central station
Aug 31, 2018, at 06:10 pm
Amsterdam, Aug 31 (IBNS): At least two people were wounded in a stabbing incident in Netherland's Amsterdam city on Friday, media reports said.
5.1 earthquake hits Greece, no casualty
Aug 31, 2018, at 05:03 pm
Athens, Aug 31 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale hit central Greece on Friday, as per US Geological Survey (USGS).
Australian Police arrest Sri Lankan man over terror charges
Aug 31, 2018, at 04:51 pm
Melbourne, Aug 31 (IBNS): The Australian police on Friday said they have arrested a Sri Lankan man on charges of terrorism.
Afghanistan: Landmine explosion in Achin kills 4 cops
Aug 31, 2018, at 04:03 pm
Kabul, Aug 31 (IBNS): A landmine explosion in Afghanistan's Achin district on Thursday left at least four policemen killed, media reports said on Friday.
Truck carrying WFP food hit in Yemen's Hodeidah Governatorate
Aug 31, 2018, at 03:44 pm
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gravely concerned about an incident on 29 August involving a truck under contract to WFP that came under shelling while delivering life-saving food assistance in the war-torn district of Al Tuhayta in Yemen’s southern Hodeidah governorate.
Aug 31, 2018, at 03:14 pm
London, Aug 31 (IBNS): Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczynski has said that he supports the burqa ban, stepping in the ongoing debate.