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Over 80 mn people forcibly displaced globally as of mid-2020, COVID further worsened crisis: UN
More than 80 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as of mid-2020, with existing and new conflicts as well as…
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UN chief warns ‘vaccine nationalism’ is moving at full speed
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that vaccine nationalism is moving at full speed, leaving poor people around the globe…
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COVID-19 could push number of people living in extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030: UN
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030 due to the severe long-term impact of…
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UN chief Guterres, 36 UK lawmakers express support for farmers’ protest
The spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres and a group of 36 cross-party UK parliamentarians have come out in support…
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Nearly 100 world leaders to speak at UN session on COVID-19
Nearly 100 world leaders and several dozen ministers are slated to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s special session starting…
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UN watchdog: Iran building the underground nuclear facility
Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous…
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US accuses Syria of delaying constitution ahead of election
The United States and several Western allies on Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a…
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‘Food Is The Vaccine For Hunger’ – UN’s World Food Programme Won The Very Deserved 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
After weeks of speculation, the big announcement this morning in Oslo is that the United Nation’s World Food programme has…
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PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against Lukashenko regime
Yesterday the four employees (pictured) of US-headquartered enterprise startup PandaDoc were arrested in Minsk by the Belarus police, in what…
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