Credit to Author: ceridio| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 10:05:04 +0000
Up to a million of Earth’s estimated eight million species face extinction, many of them within decades, according to a draft version obtained by AFP.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:14:27 +0000
Libyan forces under Khalifa Haftar battled their way to the south of Tripoli on Friday, prompting the UN Security Council and the G7
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 02:05:05 +0000
Senator De Lima has called for a probe on the move to have the UN delist more than 600 cases of enforced and involuntary disappearances.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:20:18 +0000
A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others,
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:49:52 +0000
More than half of all international patent applications filed last year came from Asia, a sign of innovation shifting “from west to east.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:16:30 +0000
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres heads to Washington on Wednesday for talks on the UN peacekeeping budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:34:01 +0000
NAIROBI, Kenya – Extracting and processing materials, fuel and food contributes as much as half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the UN said Tuesday, as experts gathered in Kenya to find ways to rein in exploding global consumption.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:54:04 +0000
The United States and Russia failed Thursday to get the deeply divided United Nations Security Council to act on current crisis in Venezuela.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:46:10 +0000
GENEVA: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday launched a new global strategy to combat hate speech, a growing scourge he said has “poisoned” debate on crucial challenges like migration….READ
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:14:35 +0000
Opposition senators on Friday urged government to heed the recommendation of a working group of the United Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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