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Save lives, UN agencies appeal, after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean
Date: 2023-08-10 20:00:04 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:74 - ID:10295207
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (MENA) - Three UN agencies on Thursday appealed for greater access to safe and regular pathways for migration and asylum in the European Union after another deadly shipwreck claimed dozens of lives in the Mediterranean. The ....
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UN experts demand information on 9 imprisoned human rights defenders in China
Date: 2023-08-10 18:50:32 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:73 - ID:10295182
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (MENA) – UN-appointed independent rights experts have called on the Chinese Government to provide information about nine Tibetan human rights defenders serving prisoner sentences of up to 11 years. The experts sounded the ....
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Guterres concerned about health and safety of Niger’s detained President
Date: 2023-08-10 18:50:18 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:72 - ID:10295181
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (MENA) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has voiced concern about the reported “deplorable living conditions” of the President of Niger in arbitrary detention, his spokesperson said in a note to journalists published. ....
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Indonesia gives Fiji aid to renovate cyclone-hit school
Date: 2023-08-10 18:06:58 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:70 - ID:10295129
JAKARTA, Aug 10 (MENA) – Indonesia has provided financial aid to Fiji for the rehabilitation of Queen Victoria School (QVS), which was damaged by tropical cyclone Winston, ANTARA reported. The Indonesian Agency for International Development ....
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Lithuania considers joining G7 declaration on military assistance to Ukraine
Date: 2023-08-10 18:06:44 GMT - Lithuania - World - SN:69 - ID:10295128
VILNIUS, Aug 10 (MENA) – Lithuania is considering to join the declaration by G7 countries, made in Vilnius last month, pledging to keep supplying military assistance to Ukraine. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė told the radio Žinių Radijas on ....
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Russia warns Ukraine, West against attacking Zaporozhye NPP: senior diplomat
Date: 2023-08-10 17:11:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:63 - ID:10295048
MOSCOW, Aug 10 (MENA) - Moscow is warning Kiev and its Western patrons against trying to attack the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said in an interview with TASS. "We are warning the ....
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UK to host Global Energy Security Summit in early 2024
Date: 2023-08-10 14:59:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:47 - ID:10294723
LONDON, Aug 10 (MENA) - Britain will host an international energy security summit next year, the government announced on Thursday, inviting big oil-producing nations and companies but focusing also on net zero, said the official UK government ....
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EU, France vehemently condemn assassination of presidential candidate in Ecuador
Date: 2023-08-10 14:58:41 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:45 - ID:10294820
BRUSSELS/PARIS, Aug 10 (MENA) - The European Union (EU) condemned in the strongest terms the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, saying this tragic act of violence is also an attack against the institutions ....
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WHO convenes first high-level global summit on traditional medicine
Date: 2023-08-10 14:19:01 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:40 - ID:10294720
GENEVA, Aug 10 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening the Traditional Medicine Global Summit on 17-18 August 2023 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Co-hosted by the Government of India, the Summit will explore the role of ....
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Wildfire victims in Hawaii reach 36, local officials say
Date: 2023-08-10 13:41:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:10294543
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - Maui wildfires in Hawaii have killed 36 persons, local officials confirmed. The Washington Post said the identities of the victims were not mentioned in a summary statement issued by the province, while it confirmed ....
