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AFP/APP Geneva: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, whose operations in Israel were banned by the Israeli parliament on Monday, is seen by some as an "irreplaceable" humanitarian lifeline in Gaza, but as an accomplice of Hamas by…

AFP/APP Geneva: Britain is urgently looking to reset its trading relationship with the European Union, and sees international commerce as key to reviving UK growth, trade minister Douglas Alexander told AFP. Alexander said Britain's…

AFP/APP Geneva:  The United Nations (UN) has issued a stark warning about the increasing unpredictability of the planet's water cycle, highlighting that intensified floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of the climate crisis.…

AFP/APP Paris: World leaders on Tuesday sounded the alarm over fears of a wider war after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in two decades due to Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds. Following nearly a year of cross-border…

AFP/APP Geneva: Children under five are disproportionately affected by the ongoing mpox outbreak in Burundi, accounting for nearly a third of reported cases, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Friday. Burundi is currently the…

APP Mirpur: Experts at a recent symposium have called for urgent collective action to safeguard vulnerable populations in disputed territories, such as Kashmir, from the escalating impacts of climate change. The seminar, organized by…

News Desk Geneva: A recent study by the World Health Organization (WHO) challenges the long-held belief that heavy use of mobile phones increases the risk of brain cancer. This comprehensive research, which involved experts from ten…

News Desk  New York: The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) highlighted on Wednesday that the global trend of shrinking pay packets in heavily industrialized economies may be temporarily influenced by technological innovations…

AFP/APP Geneva: The Swiss government on Wednesday criticized a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found Switzerland guilty of not taking adequate action to combat climate change. The April ruling marked the…

APP United Nations: The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a united global effort to combat a new mpox outbreak, unveiling a response plan requiring at least $135 million over the next six months. "Let me be…