Category: International News

UNITED NATIONS, June 5 (APP):The world must unite to “beat plastic pollution,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his message for World Environment Day on Tuesday, noting that microplastic particles in the ocean, “now outnumber stars in our galaxy.” In his message marking the day on June 5, he said a healthy planet was… Continue reading World is being “swamped” by harmful plastic waste: UN chief

UNITED NATIONS, June 5 (APP):The United Nations has opened a technology bank in Turkey that is aimed at helping poor nations leapfrog development challenges. “Technology has to diffuse to all communities to enable them to leapfrog traditional development challenges,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said at the launch on Monday of the new UN Technology… Continue reading UN technology bank opens in Turkey, to help poor nations

UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (APP):United Nations officials have expressed their outrage over Friday’s killing by Israeli security forces of a 21-year-old Palestinian medic who was helping the injured along the Gaza border. “Healthcare workers must be allowed to perform their duties without fear of death or injury,” the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Jamie McGoldrick, said in… Continue reading UN express outrage over killing of Palestinian nurse in Gaza

LONDON Jun 04 (APP):British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Monday called on tech sector to help endangered species and hosted a meeting to derive innovation in fight against illegal wildlife trade. A Foreign and Commonwealth Office statement here said that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had brought together leading technology companies together with conservationists to develop… Continue reading Boris Johnson calls on tech sector to help endangered species

NEW YORK, June 4 (APP):A former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has said that it would almost be a “self-executing impeachment” if President Donald Trump, who is under pressure from Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 American elections, were to pardon himself. “I think it would be outrageous for a sitting… Continue reading Trump pardoning himself would be ‘self-executing impeachment’: Ex-US Attorney

BEIJING, June 3 (APP):The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit will ratify a five-year outline for the implementation of the treaty on long-term good neighborliness, friendship, and cooperation. Member states might discuss measures to deepen cooperation and reach a consensus on important international and regional issues to enable the SCO to better play a role… Continue reading Upcoming SCO summit has special meaning as India, Pakistan step in: Global Times

NEW YORK, June 3 (APP):Thousands of people have marched in New York and other cities in the United States to demand an end to the country’s gun violence epidemic following several mass shootings in schools in recent months during which a promising Pakistani student also lost her life. A student-led group called Youth Over Guns… Continue reading Thousands march across US to protest gun violence

BEIJING, June 3 (APP):China Southern Airlines, one of the big three airlines in China, is adding a new route to Pakistan during this summer, with the offering of nonstop service between Urumqi, the capital of China’s Uygur autonomous region, and Lahore from June 21. There will be two weekly flights in the beginning, on Thursdays… Continue reading China Southern to start Urumqi-Lahore flight from June 21

UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (APP):The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking protections for Palestinian civilians in the Israeli-occupied territories and Gaza, while a competing US-sponsored draft that blamed the Hamas movement for the recent surge in violence was resoundingly defeated in the 15-member body. The United States was isolated in Friday’s… Continue reading ‘US vetoes UNSC resolution on Gaza, but it’s competing text failed’

BEIJING, June 2 (APP):Students and young professionals from the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will take part in the first Model SCO Youth Conference 2018 at the organization’s Beijing headquarters here on Sunday. The youth conference being organized by the SCO Countries Youth League will see participants from the eight full members… Continue reading First Model SCO Youth Conference starts in Beijing on Sunday

WASHINGTON, June 1 (APP):Prospects of an all-out trade war is looming large after longtime allies announced retaliatory measures to the decision by President Trump to impose tariff on steel and aluminum imports and Canadian Prime Minister cancelled a planned visit to Washington to finalize a trade deal. US Commerce Secretary on Thursday announced to end… Continue reading US triggers trade war with longtime allies after tariffs on steel, aluminum imports