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UN Nuclear Treaty Talks End Without Deal Amid US-Iran Dispute
Vietnam's UN Ambassador Do Hung Viet, who chaired the conference, announced that there was no consensus among the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on even a watered-down final document.
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Pak PM Seeks $8 Billion In Flood Assistance At UN Conference In Geneva
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday sought USD 8 billion assistance from the international community over the next three years to bridge the funding needs for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the areas hit by last year's floods.
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India A Responsible Nuclear Weapon State, Says Indian Envoy At UN
Indian Ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Pankaj Sharma noted that India maintains a policy of credible minimum deterrence, based on a no-first-use posture and non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States.
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Kerala-Based 4Tune Factory Gets UN Award For Empowering Women In Business
Kerala-based 4Tune Factory has been given a special recogntion award by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for enabling women and girls to develop skills.
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Pankaj Sharma Appointed India's Ambassador To UN Conference On Disarmament
Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the ambassador and India's permanent representative to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, an official statement said.
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UN Report Confronts Nations With Tough Choices On Climate Change
The world's nations will gather at a UN conference in South Korea on Monday to review and approve a 20-page bombshell -- distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies -- laying out narrowing options for staving off climate catastrophe.
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Artificial Intelligence 'Good For The World'...Says Ultra-Lifelike Robot
Sophia smiles mischievously, bats her eyelids and tells a joke. Without the mess of cables that make up the back of her head, you could almost mistake her for a human.
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Arctic Ocean Could Be Entirely Ice Free In Summer As Early As 2030
Diplomats from 197 nations wound down a two-week UN conference Friday which started drafting a blueprint for arresting global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
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Why 2.5 Billion People Moving To Cities By 2050 Is A Big Reason To Worry
In fast-growing cities across the developing world more than 70 per cent of residents lack access to basic services like clean water, affordable transportation or decent housing, a research group said on Friday ahead of a UN conference on urbanization.
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China Protests Dalai Lama's Presence At United Nations Conference
China has lodged a protest with the United Nations (UN) for inviting the Dalai Lama to its conference in Geneva saying that the Tibetan spiritual leader is a separatist and not entitled to talk about human rights.
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Still Divided, Countries Join Final Push For Climate Deal
Exhausted global climate negotiators resumed wrestling over the language of an agreement today morning after talks that dragged through the night failed to bridge gaps between rich and developing countries.
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China Smog Climbs to Perilous Levels on Eve of Climate Talks
Northern China choked under some of the worst smog this year today, with levels in Beijing soaring to 22 times healthy limits, triggering the city's second-highest pollution alert on the eve of global climate change talks.
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Xi Jinping to Bring No New Concessions to Paris Climate Summit
China's President Xi Jinping will bring no new concessions to the negotiating table when he attends key UN climate change talks in Paris next week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday.
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World Leaders Vow to Seek 2 Celsius Degree Climate Deal in Paris: Statement
World leaders have vowed to seek a comprehensive climate deal at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, a draft statement seen by AFP said today.
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Astronaut to Carry Text of Paris Climate Deal into Space
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will carry the text of any climate change deal clinched in Paris in December into space with him next year, a French junior minister for research said on Thursday.
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UN Nuclear Treaty Talks End Without Deal Amid US-Iran Dispute
Vietnam's UN Ambassador Do Hung Viet, who chaired the conference, announced that there was no consensus among the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on even a watered-down final document.
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Pak PM Seeks $8 Billion In Flood Assistance At UN Conference In Geneva
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday sought USD 8 billion assistance from the international community over the next three years to bridge the funding needs for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the areas hit by last year's floods.
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India A Responsible Nuclear Weapon State, Says Indian Envoy At UN
Indian Ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Pankaj Sharma noted that India maintains a policy of credible minimum deterrence, based on a no-first-use posture and non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States.
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Kerala-Based 4Tune Factory Gets UN Award For Empowering Women In Business
Kerala-based 4Tune Factory has been given a special recogntion award by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for enabling women and girls to develop skills.
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Pankaj Sharma Appointed India's Ambassador To UN Conference On Disarmament
Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the ambassador and India's permanent representative to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, an official statement said.
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UN Report Confronts Nations With Tough Choices On Climate Change
The world's nations will gather at a UN conference in South Korea on Monday to review and approve a 20-page bombshell -- distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies -- laying out narrowing options for staving off climate catastrophe.
-
Artificial Intelligence 'Good For The World'...Says Ultra-Lifelike Robot
Sophia smiles mischievously, bats her eyelids and tells a joke. Without the mess of cables that make up the back of her head, you could almost mistake her for a human.
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Arctic Ocean Could Be Entirely Ice Free In Summer As Early As 2030
Diplomats from 197 nations wound down a two-week UN conference Friday which started drafting a blueprint for arresting global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
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Why 2.5 Billion People Moving To Cities By 2050 Is A Big Reason To Worry
In fast-growing cities across the developing world more than 70 per cent of residents lack access to basic services like clean water, affordable transportation or decent housing, a research group said on Friday ahead of a UN conference on urbanization.
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China Protests Dalai Lama's Presence At United Nations Conference
China has lodged a protest with the United Nations (UN) for inviting the Dalai Lama to its conference in Geneva saying that the Tibetan spiritual leader is a separatist and not entitled to talk about human rights.
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Still Divided, Countries Join Final Push For Climate Deal
Exhausted global climate negotiators resumed wrestling over the language of an agreement today morning after talks that dragged through the night failed to bridge gaps between rich and developing countries.
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China Smog Climbs to Perilous Levels on Eve of Climate Talks
Northern China choked under some of the worst smog this year today, with levels in Beijing soaring to 22 times healthy limits, triggering the city's second-highest pollution alert on the eve of global climate change talks.
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Xi Jinping to Bring No New Concessions to Paris Climate Summit
China's President Xi Jinping will bring no new concessions to the negotiating table when he attends key UN climate change talks in Paris next week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday.
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World Leaders Vow to Seek 2 Celsius Degree Climate Deal in Paris: Statement
World leaders have vowed to seek a comprehensive climate deal at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, a draft statement seen by AFP said today.
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Astronaut to Carry Text of Paris Climate Deal into Space
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will carry the text of any climate change deal clinched in Paris in December into space with him next year, a French junior minister for research said on Thursday.
