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427 Rohingya May Have Drowned In Two Shipwrecks In May: UN
The United Nations said it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast.
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Water Crisis In Afghan Capital Leaves Families Struggling For Survival
Afghanistan's capital Kabul is facing a water shortage, running out of ground water with families such as Bibi Jan's forced to choose between water and food. UNICEF warned last year that Kabul could be dry by 2030 if urgent action is not taken.
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30,000 Secretly Grown Marijuana Plants Destroyed In Turkey: Report
Turkey's drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday.
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Global Acute Hunger Hits New High, Outlook 'Bleak' For 2025: UN-Backed Report
More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other crises -- and the outlook is "bleak" for 2025 as humanitarian aid falters, a UN-backed report said Friday.
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Iran To Hold Talks With European Powers As Nuclear Deal Gets "Close"
Iran to meet UK, France and Germany in Turkey on Friday after US President Donald Trump said nuclear deal with Tehran was "getting close".
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'Cities Today Are Heat Traps, Prioritise Nature': UN Chief Heat Officer
Eleni Myrivili, one of the field's pioneers who currently serves as the Global Chief Heat Officer for UN-Habitat, spoke about the urgent need to redesign cities to keep asphalt-riddled areas from turning into impossible-to-escape "ovens".
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Who Is Masood Azhar, Terrorist Whose Family Members Died In Op Sindoor
India's overnight strike in Pakistan's Bahawalpur killed 10 members of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar's family, news agency PTI has reported.
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UN Judge Jailed For 6 Years For Modern Slavery Offences
A UK court on Friday jailed a United Nations judge for six years and four months after she was found guilty of forcing a young woman to work as her maid.
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Mike Waltz Named UN Envoy, Rubio Becomes Interim National Security Adviser
U.S. President Donald Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement in the first major shakeup of Trump's inner circle since he took office in January.
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UN Food Programme To Slash Quarter Of Staff As Funding Falls
The UN World Food Programme will cut staff by 25 to 30 percent as funding for the global aid agency plummets, according to an internal email seen Monday by AFP.
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North Korea Admits Sending Troops To Fight For Russia In War Against Ukraine
North Korea confirmed for the first time it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA on Monday reporting that Pyongyang's soldiers helped Moscow reclaim territory under Ukrainian control in the Russian border region of Kursk.
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"We Will Die Of Hunger": Gazans Scramble For Food, Run To Community Kitchens
At the break of dawn, 10-year-old Youssef al-Najjar races barefoot, clutching a battered pot, to a community kitchen in Gaza City, only to find hundreds of others already queueing.
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"Bullying, Blackmail": US, China Exchange Barbs Over Trade War At UN
The Chinese envoy took direct aim at the United States, saying the government headed by Donald Trump "severely disrupts the global economic order" by imposing shock tariffs on its trading partners.
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Iran Challenges Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, UK In UN Court Over Jet It Downed In 2020
The four countries had citizens on a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 that was downed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on January 8, 2020. All 176 people on board were killed.
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Iran Close To Having A Nuclear Bomb, Says UN Body Chief, Heads To Tehran
Iran is dangerously close to developing an atomic weapon, warned the International Atomic Energy Agency, hours before the UN watchdog's chief is expected to leave for Tehran.
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427 Rohingya May Have Drowned In Two Shipwrecks In May: UN
The United Nations said it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast.
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Water Crisis In Afghan Capital Leaves Families Struggling For Survival
Afghanistan's capital Kabul is facing a water shortage, running out of ground water with families such as Bibi Jan's forced to choose between water and food. UNICEF warned last year that Kabul could be dry by 2030 if urgent action is not taken.
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30,000 Secretly Grown Marijuana Plants Destroyed In Turkey: Report
Turkey's drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday.
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Global Acute Hunger Hits New High, Outlook 'Bleak' For 2025: UN-Backed Report
More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other crises -- and the outlook is "bleak" for 2025 as humanitarian aid falters, a UN-backed report said Friday.
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Iran To Hold Talks With European Powers As Nuclear Deal Gets "Close"
Iran to meet UK, France and Germany in Turkey on Friday after US President Donald Trump said nuclear deal with Tehran was "getting close".
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'Cities Today Are Heat Traps, Prioritise Nature': UN Chief Heat Officer
Eleni Myrivili, one of the field's pioneers who currently serves as the Global Chief Heat Officer for UN-Habitat, spoke about the urgent need to redesign cities to keep asphalt-riddled areas from turning into impossible-to-escape "ovens".
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Who Is Masood Azhar, Terrorist Whose Family Members Died In Op Sindoor
India's overnight strike in Pakistan's Bahawalpur killed 10 members of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar's family, news agency PTI has reported.
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UN Judge Jailed For 6 Years For Modern Slavery Offences
A UK court on Friday jailed a United Nations judge for six years and four months after she was found guilty of forcing a young woman to work as her maid.
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Mike Waltz Named UN Envoy, Rubio Becomes Interim National Security Adviser
U.S. President Donald Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement in the first major shakeup of Trump's inner circle since he took office in January.
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UN Food Programme To Slash Quarter Of Staff As Funding Falls
The UN World Food Programme will cut staff by 25 to 30 percent as funding for the global aid agency plummets, according to an internal email seen Monday by AFP.
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North Korea Admits Sending Troops To Fight For Russia In War Against Ukraine
North Korea confirmed for the first time it had deployed troops to Russia, with state news agency KCNA on Monday reporting that Pyongyang's soldiers helped Moscow reclaim territory under Ukrainian control in the Russian border region of Kursk.
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"We Will Die Of Hunger": Gazans Scramble For Food, Run To Community Kitchens
At the break of dawn, 10-year-old Youssef al-Najjar races barefoot, clutching a battered pot, to a community kitchen in Gaza City, only to find hundreds of others already queueing.
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"Bullying, Blackmail": US, China Exchange Barbs Over Trade War At UN
The Chinese envoy took direct aim at the United States, saying the government headed by Donald Trump "severely disrupts the global economic order" by imposing shock tariffs on its trading partners.
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Iran Challenges Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, UK In UN Court Over Jet It Downed In 2020
The four countries had citizens on a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 that was downed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on January 8, 2020. All 176 people on board were killed.
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Iran Close To Having A Nuclear Bomb, Says UN Body Chief, Heads To Tehran
Iran is dangerously close to developing an atomic weapon, warned the International Atomic Energy Agency, hours before the UN watchdog's chief is expected to leave for Tehran.
