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New York: Road traffic accidents claim nearly 1.3 million lives each year, cost some countries up to three per cent of their annual GDP, and are the biggest killer of five to 29-year olds globally, the UN General Assembly President told a High-level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety on Thursday. more
Myanmar: Shocking toll on children must be spur to action, says UN rights expert

New York: Myanmar’s military junta is responsible for shocking violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup, a top independent Human Rig ...

Syria’s needs are at their highest ever, says top rights probe

New York: Syria’s humanitarian needs are at their highest ever and any move to block aid from reaching the war-torn country should be resisted strongly, a top UN Human Rights Counci ...

Flight from cities due to COVID-19 short-lived, says flagship UN-Habitat report

New York: A new United Nations report says that rapid urbanization was only temporarily delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the global urban population back on track to grow by another ...

Belarus ‘engulfed in fear’, Human Rights Council hears

New York: The deterioration of human rights in Belarus continues to engulf the country in a climate of fear and arbitrary rule, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on We ...

Yair Lapid: Israel gets new PM

Jerusalem: Yair Lapid has taken over as the new PM of Israel, replacing  Naftali Bennett just after a year, media reports said.

FBI adds 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova to top ten most wanted list, announces reward

New York: The FBI New York, along with the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York and the IRS Criminal Investigation Newark Field Office, named Ruja Ig ...

Xi Jinping arrives in Hong Kong to mark 25 years of handover

Beijing/UNI: Hong Kong will mark 25 years since the city was handed back by the British to China, BBC reported on Friday.

Syria: Decade of brutal war left nearly 307,000 civilians dead

New York: Between 1 March 2011 and 31 March 2021, 306,887 civilians were killed in the on-going war in Syria - the highest estimate yet of conflict-related deaths in the country, accordin ...

Sex trafficking: British Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell awarded 20 years imprisonment

London: UK Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was awarded 20-years in prison in the US  for helping former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, media reports said.