Smuggling: Chinese national gets 9-year prison term in Ethiopia
Mar 17, 2022, at 04:38 am
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has sentenced a Chinese national to nine years in jail for reportedly trying to smuggle highly censored communication gear into the country, media reports said.
Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky addresses US lawmakers, appeals for greater Western intervention
Mar 17, 2022, at 03:39 am
Washington/IBNS: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday made an emotive appeal to United States lawmakers for greater Western intervention against the Russian attack.
Guterres vows to improve UN’s handling of sexual exploitation and abuse
Mar 16, 2022, at 10:46 pm
New York: Secretary-General António Guterres released his annual update on the Organization’s efforts to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) on Tuesday, dovetailing with his system-wide strategy – launched in 2017 - to stamp out incidents by placing victims at the heart of efforts, throughout the system.
Yemen war now ‘chronic emergency’ as millions face hunger
Mar 16, 2022, at 09:20 pm
New York: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is living in a chronic state of emergency, marked by hunger, disease and other miseries that are rising faster than aid agencies can reverse, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the Special Envoy for the country called for joint efforts by Yemenis and the international community to break the entrenched cycle of violence.
UN on ‘positive trajectory’ towards full gender parity
Mar 16, 2022, at 07:04 pm
New York: Gender equality and women’s rights are essential to a renewed social contract anchored in human rights - the new Agenda for Peace - the UN chief told a meeting on Tuesday aimed at advancing women’s leadership worldwide.
Syria: Children ‘live in fear of violence’, scarred by 11 years of war
Mar 16, 2022, at 06:34 pm
New York: Nearly five million children born in Syria since March 2011 have known nothing but conflict. After 11 years of war, the crisis continues to leave them struggling with physical and psychological scars, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Ukraine war creating a child refugee almost every second: UNICEF
Mar 16, 2022, at 06:28 pm
New York: Almost one child per second in Ukraine is becoming a refugee of the war, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as the total number of people who have now fled the country since the Russian invasion began, passed three million.
New Zealand reopens border for tourism
Mar 16, 2022, at 05:48 pm
Wellington: The New Zealand government is bringing forward the date for the reopening of the border to tourists in time for the Australian school holidays, in a move that will help accelerate the economic recovery from COVID-19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday.
Mar 16, 2022, at 02:53 pm
Fox News Channel cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra 'Sasha' Kuvshynova were killed close to war-hit Ukraine's Kyiv city when the vehicle in which they were travelling came under attack.
South Korean military says North Korean missile launch failed
Mar 16, 2022, at 02:13 pm
Seoul: South Korea on Wednesday said North Korea's attempt to launch an unidentified projectile has failed, media reports said.
Yemen: Three killed in suicide attack
Mar 16, 2022, at 01:57 am
Sanaa/UNI/Sputnik: Three soldiers accompanying one of the separatist commanders were killed and seven guards injured in a suicide attack in Abyan governorate, southern Yemen, a source in the government told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes extending martial law in Ukraine
Mar 16, 2022, at 12:53 am
Kiev/UNI/Xinhua: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a bill to the parliament, proposing the extension of the current martial law in Ukraine, government-run Ukrinform news agency reported Tuesday.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Anti-war protesting journalist on Russian TV goes missing
Mar 15, 2022, at 11:52 pm
Moscow: A Russian journalist, who grabbed international attention after she burst on to a live TV news programme to protest against the ongoing war in Ukraine, has gone missing, media reports said.
UN rights chief decries mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia
Mar 15, 2022, at 07:19 pm
New York: The UN human rights chief has condemned the beheading of 81 people by Saudi Arabia during the course of a single day, charged with terrorism-related offences.
Ukraine: ‘We need peace now’ declares Guterres, warning of global hunger meltdown
Mar 15, 2022, at 07:06 pm
Ukraine is being “decimated before the eyes of the world” with Russia’s military offensive against civilians “reaching terrifying proportions”, said the UN chief on Monday, warning that a resulting meltdown of the global economy is provoking a hunger crisis that is hitting the poorest, hardest.
Women and girls must lead battle against ‘widespread and interlinked crises’
Mar 15, 2022, at 06:55 pm
New York: To forge a sustainable future for us all, “women and girls must be front and centre, leading the way”. Secretary-General António Guterres told the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Monday.
Yemen facing ‘outright catastrophe’ over rising hunger, warn UN humanitarians
Mar 15, 2022, at 06:41 pm
New York: Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe”, UN agency chiefs said on Monday, as new data analysis from the war-ravaged country indicated potentially record food insecurity.
Israel: Cyberattack crashes government sites
Mar 15, 2022, at 02:17 pm
Tel Aviv: Several Israeli government websites crashed, including those for the Prime Minister's Office, ministries of health, interior, justice and welfare in what has been described as the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
'Haven't asked China for military help': Russia on Ukraine war
Mar 15, 2022, at 03:32 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Russia has not asked China for military assistance, said Kremlin after a controversy broke out when some US officials said Moscow has asked Beijing for military and economic aid in its war against Ukraine.
Mar 14, 2022, at 10:12 pm
New York: Since Russia invaded Ukraine, 31 attacks on health care have been documented by the World Health Organization. These incidents have killed and injured civilians, as well as destroyed facilities and ambulances, disrupting access to essential health services.
Ukraine Crisis: American journalist Brent Renaud shot dead by Russian forces in Irpin
Mar 14, 2022, at 03:39 am
Kyiv: American journalist Brent Renaud was shot dead by Russian forces in the Ukraine's Irpin region on Sunday.
Russian airstrike in western Ukraine leaves 35 people dead
Mar 13, 2022, at 11:56 pm
Kyiv: Lviv regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi on Sunday claimed that 35 people died and 134 others wounded in the missile strike on a military training base in western Ukraine.
Russian forces inch closer to Kyiv, Ukraine says fleeing citizens getting killed: Reports
Mar 13, 2022, at 06:08 pm
Kyiv/IBNS: Russian forces are approaching closer to Ukraine's capital Kyiv from the north, west and northeast, reports said on Sunday.
A dozen missiles strike near US consulate in north Iraq, no injuries reported
Mar 13, 2022, at 05:13 pm
Baghdad/IBNS: A total of 12 missiles struck Iraq's northern city of Irbil on Sunday near the United States consulate, media reports said. There have been no casualties.
Murder of polio vaccinators in Afghanistan: Four people arrested
Mar 13, 2022, at 04:22 pm
Taliban security officials have arrested four people accused of killing four polio vaccinators and two Taliban affiliates in Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
Ukraine conflict: Residents of Melitopol city demonstrate against alleged abduction of mayor
Mar 13, 2022, at 04:11 pm
Melitopol: Residents of Ukraine's Melitopol city have protested against the alleged abduction of the mayor by Russian forces, media reports said on Sunday.
Several rockets land near US consulate in Iraq’s Erbil
Mar 13, 2022, at 02:56 pm
Baghdad/UNI/Sputnik: Strong explosions were heard in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, late on Saturday night, Shafaq News reported citing an Iraqi security source.
Ukraine crisis: Power lines at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant being repaired
Mar 13, 2022, at 02:39 pm
Kyiv/UNI/Sputnik The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that, according to the Ukrainian regulator, work is continuing to repair the damaged power lines at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).
Russia fires on evacuation convoy, 7 killed
Mar 13, 2022, at 08:30 am
Kyiv/UNI: The Ukrainian intelligence service on Saturday said that seven civilians were killed after Russian troops fired at an evacuation convoy in the Kyiv region.
Zelenskyy says about 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers killed
Mar 13, 2022, at 08:30 am
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy estimated on Saturday that his country had lost some 1,300 troops during more than two weeks of fighting with Russia.