Category: International News

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 21 (APP):A “pragmatic, strategic and evolutionary” approach is needed in the least developed countries to strengthen their public sector capacity, bring about institutional reform and promote policy learning, a new United Nations report has urged.

BEIJING, Nov 20 (APP):A Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Tuesday said the China-Maldives Free Trade Agreement was mutually beneficial and stressed that its early implementation would benefit both the countries.

BEIJING, Nov 20 (APP):China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), a nuclear power giant will construct two third-generation reactors in Karachi.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (APP):Emmy-Nominated British actress Millie Bobby Brown was Tuesday named the newest United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador to mark World’s Children Day.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (APP):United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today underscored the role of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in building “more peaceful, just and resilient societies, a key objective of the 2030 UN Development Agenda, in his remarks on the opening day of the eighth annual Global Forum. The secretary-general recalled… Continue reading UN Alliance of Civilizations is fundamental to “world we need to build” Guterress

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (APP):In a historic move, a committee of the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on sexual harassment that would urge governments to condemn violence against women and girls,

  NEW YORK, Nov 20 (APP):In a blow to US President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, a federal judge has put a temporary halt to his administration’s order denying the possibility of asylum to people who enter the US illegally, according to American media reports.

BEIJING, Nov 19 (APP):The dead body of a Pakistani student who reportedly committed suicide at Shenyang city in Liaoning province in China was transported to home by PIA flight from Beijing Capital Airport here on Monday.

  NEW YORK, Nov 19 (APP):Efforts to reset the strained Islamabad-Washington relations have apparently received a setback following President Donald Trump accusations that Pakistan was not doing “a damn thing for us”, and defended his administration’s decision to withhold military aid to the country.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (APP):Targets to reduce global rates of infections and deaths from malaria are not being met, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday as the UN agency released its 2018 World malaria report.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (APP):The United Nations has expressed concern over reports of shootings by Myanmar police at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Rakhine state.

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (APP):A committee of the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution, sponsored by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), condemning human rights violations of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and calling for the perpetrators to be held accountable.