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Greta documentary a fuller portrait of climate activist

11:40 pm September 4, 2020

Venice: A documentary on teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, making its premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival, is seeking to remind a world consumed with the coronavirus crisis that the climate crisis is just as urgent and isn’t going away. Thunberg appeared by video conference from school on Friday for the Venice launch of […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

8:42 pm September 3, 2020

London: An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it begins the probe. The panel’s co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former […]

Pulse polio drive in 13 Haryana districts

UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine

6:23 pm September 2, 2020

London: The World Health Organisation says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the UN health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan — one from South Darfur state and the other from Gedarif state, close to the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea — were paralysed in March […]

UN labour body: Qatar ‘dismantles’ kafala employment system

8:11 pm August 30, 2020

Dubai: New labour rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country’s long-criticised “kafala” employment system, a UN labour body said Sunday. The International Labor Organization said as of now, migrant workers can change jobs before the end of their contracts without obtaining the permission of their current employers. Qatar also has adopted a minimum monthly wage […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

India slams Pak for falsely claiming it made statement at UN Security Council meet

11:12 pm August 27, 2020

New Delhi: India Thursday hit out at Pakistan for falsely claiming that it made a statement at a recent UN Security Council meeting on terrorism, and asserted UN body’s chair Indonesia had informally told New Delhi that non-member were not allowed to speak at the discussion. India has also formally written to the United Nations about Pakistan’s false claim. It has exposed Pakistan’s litany of lies peddled at the UN after Islamabad’s UN envoy claimed […]