Ukrainian foreign minister in China for talks on future peace negotiations
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba held talks Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in the southern economic hub of Guangzhou. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Kuleba and Wang agreed that negotiations are necessary to end Russia’s two-and-a-half-year-old…
Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises
Progress toward achieving a world free of hunger has stalled, while efforts to improve the nutritional status of billions of people have been setback 15 years as global crises deepen in some of the world’s poorest countries, according to a…
Gaza: Exodus from Khan Younis compounds pressure on meagre resources
According to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, some 1.9 million people – nine in 10 in Gaza – have been forcibly uprooted since 7 October, including people who have been repeatedly displaced. For UN aid agencies and partners, “fuel shortages…
UNICEF chief calls for urgent security reset in Gaza amid ‘new horrors’
“Simply put – we do not have the necessary conditions in the Gaza Strip for a robust humanitarian response,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement issued in the wake of an attack on one of the agency’s vehicles and the latest…
US investigates Delta flight cancellations, response to global tech outage
U.S. regulators are investigating why Delta Air Lines failed to recover as quickly as other airlines from a global technology breakdown and whether Delta’s treatment of passengers stranded by canceled and delayed flights violated federal rules. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…
Polio at high risk of spreading within Gaza Strip
Geneva — A senior World Health Organization official expressed alarm Tuesday at the high risk of polio spreading within the Gaza Strip because of dire sanitary conditions in the war-wracked enclave, and that the paralytic disease it causes could spill…
India to spend billions of dollars on job creation
New Delhi — The government in India will spend $24 billion on boosting employment opportunities for young people, as job creation emerges as the biggest challenge confronting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term. The government also announced financial…
UN: Nearly 40 million had HIV in 2023, many died due to lack of treatment
United Nations — Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren’t getting any treatment, and the result was that every minute someone died of AIDS-related causes, the U.N. said…
UN experts condemn sentencing of journalists in Russia
On Friday, Mr. Gershkovich was handed a 16-year prison sentence on spying charges in a Russian court. The reporter was arrested in Russia in 2023 and has been held there since, despite calls for his release. That same day, Ms. Kurmasheva received a…
Attacks on civilians in Burkina Faso force thousands into neighbouring Niger
In an alert, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said that previous attacks in recent weeks along Burkina Faso’s border with Niger had already led to a “surge” of displaced people into the Nigerien city of Téra, Tillabéri region, despite the…