Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:01:45 +0000
JOHANNESBURG – The second powerful cyclone to strike Mozambique in just six weeks ripped off roofs and killed at least three people on Friday as the United Nations warned of “massive flooding” ahead.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:54:58 +0000
LONDON — The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time children under 5 should get: not very much, and none at all for those under 1.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:16:12 +0000
Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to health care translates into far shorter lives for many.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:20:00 +0000
BANGKOK — The main United Nations human rights agency expressed concern Friday about an upsurge in fighting between Myanmar’s army and guerrillas of the Rakhine minority’s Arakan Army, especially attacks on civilians by both sides.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:40:13 +0000
UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern Thursday over the risk of confrontation in Libya after forces loyal to a controversial strongman announced they were preparing to advance on Tripoli.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:02:43 +0000
Five European countries on the UN Security Council rejected US President Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan as Israeli territory.
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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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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:06:33 +0000
WASHINGTON — Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:14:17 +0000
Inter-communal violence that left 535 people dead in western Congo may amount to crimes against humanity, a report by UN investigators said.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:03:20 +0000
An assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) opened in Nairobi on Monday under a dark cloud cast by an Ethiopian plane crash.
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