Category: International News

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (APP):Three of Pakistan’s draft resolutions on disarmament-related matters were adopted with overwhelming support by the UN General Assembly’s main committee on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (APP):International crime gangs generate around $31.5 billion in illicit profits from conflict zones alone, thus becoming a threat to international peace and security, T. Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, told the UN Security Council.

BEIJING, Nov 8 (APP)::A hundred children from Afghanistan with congenital heart defects have received medical treatment in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in four batches since September last year as part of the Red Cross Society of China’s foreign humanitarian mission.

LONDON, Nov 08 (APP):Over 7,000 veterans of the Commonwealth who served the British Armed Forces will receive two meals a day through UK aid, International Development, Secretary Penny Mordaunt confirmed today.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (APP):The US mid-term polls that handed back the House of Representatives to the opposition Democratic party, also made a history by electing more than 100 females to the house, including the first-ever two Muslims women.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (APP):With one in five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, a UN report today urged policymakers to prioritize the reduction of food loss and waste as a way of improving people’s access to nutritious and healthy food.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (APP):A United Nations human rights expert has implored Bangladesh to shelve rushed plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees back across the border into Myanmar’s Rakhine State for fear that without safety guarantees from the government, persecution and horrific violence could begin all over again.

LONDON, Nov 07 (APP):The three-day World Tourism Mart (WTM) London 2018 which kicked off on October 5,2018, attracted a large number of visitors at Gilgit Baltistan booth on first , second and third day.

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (APP):Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, and Ilhan Omar, who is of Somali origin, Tuesday made history as the first Muslim women elected to U.S. Congress after both Democrats won their congressional midterm 2018 races.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7 (APP):Investigators have uncovered more than 200 mass graves containing thousands of bodies in areas of Iraq formerly controlled by ISIL/Da’esh, according to a new UN human rights report.

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (APP):In a first in US history, two Muslim women are expected to be elected to the US Congress in Thursday’s midterm elections that are seen in large part as a referendum of President Donald Trump, whose two years in the White House have been marked by a series of controversies.

SHANGHAI, Nov 6 (APP):President Xi Jinping announced a number of measures on Monday, including lowered tariffs and eased market access, intended to promote common growth and build an open global economy.