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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The UN envoy to Yemen said he was “alarmed” over the escalation of violence after a rebel drone attack on the country’s largest airbase killed six loyalist soldiers. In tweets posted overnight, Thursday Martin Griffiths urged all parties to Yemen’s protracted conflict to exercise restraint. The Shiite Huthi rebels said they carried out the strike which hit a military parade at Al-Anad air base, in government-held Lahij province some […]
by Carole LANDRY Agence France Presse UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The year 2019 started off at the United Nations with Somalia brazenly kicking out the UN envoy, followed soon after by Guatemala ditching a UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. After a tough year that saw the United States, the UN’s top financial backer, cut funding, pull out of the Human Rights Council and scrap UN-backed agreements, the United Nations is taking more hard hits. Some […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has acknowledged “drawbacks” in its agricultural sector this year, echoing UN reports of declining crop yields in a country that remains heavily reliant on food imports and aid. Agricultural production is chronically poor in the North, which has periodically been hit by famine, with hundreds of thousands dying — some estimates say millions — in the mid-1990s. Premier of the government cabinet, Pak Pong Ju, referred to “drawbacks […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a message of support after a volcano-triggered tsunami left 281 people dead and hundreds more injured in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait. “Unthinkable devastation from the tsunami disaster in Indonesia,” the Republican leader tweeted. “More than two hundred dead and nearly a thousand injured or unaccounted for. We are praying for recovery and healing. America is with you!” He joined the chorus of world leaders […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 21, said the support of a body of the United Nations Human Rights Council for a probe into what it said were the human rights violations against Senator Leila de Lima constituted an “intrusion of our sovereignty.” “They have been saying that and we’ve been saying that the problem with you people is you’re listening to the critics of this administration. You are not investigating on your own,” […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Dec. 20, slammed the call of United Nations special rapporteur Michael Forst for the Philippines to “end immediately all forms of violations against human rights defenders..,” calling it “irresponsible” and “reckless.” In the first place, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that if Forst had checked his facts first, he would have seen the “so-called human rights defenders never had it so good under the Duterte administration.” “They continue […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Food production has fallen this year in isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Rice and maize are the North’s main staples, but rice output was expected to be below average because of erratic rains and low irrigation supplies, the FAO said in its quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. Unfavorable weather conditions also diminished maize yields, it added. As a result, the country […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse KATOWICE, Poland (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sought to rescue deeply troubled climate talks in Poland on Wednesday, warning the battle against global warming is a “matter of life and death today.” The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at “well under” two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), and 1.5C if possible. But efforts to elaborate a […]
by Philippe RATER / with Shaun Tandon in Washington Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged the United Nations to tighten restrictions on Iran’s missiles, which he warned could strike US allies, but other powers called instead for dialogue. Pompeo headed to New York for a Security Council meeting on Iran, which recently confirmed a medium-range ballistic missile test, arguing it is legal and […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Global temperatures in 2018 are set to be the fourth highest on record, the UN said Thursday, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway warming of the planet. In a report released ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland, the World Meteorological Organization pointed out that the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, and that “2018 is on course to […]
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius (AFP) — Reggae music, whose chill, lilting grooves found international fame thanks to artists like Bob Marley, on Thursday won a spot on the United Nations’ list of global cultural treasures. UNESCO, the world body’s cultural and scientific agency, added the genre that originated in Jamaica to its collection of “intangible cultural heritage” deemed worthy of protection and promotion. Reggae music’s “contribution to international discourse on issues of injustice, resistance, love […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization warned Monday. Data from the UN health body shows that every day, 93 percent of children under the age of 15 — a full 1.8 billion youngsters, including 630 million under the age of five — breath dangerously polluted air. This has tragic consequences: In 2016 alone, some […]
