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AFP/APP Geneva: Saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a "survival strategy" for the planet, the UN emphasized on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. United…

AFP/APP Geneva: Climate change triggered a series of extreme weather events and record-breaking heat in 2024, the United Nations reported on Monday, urging global action to avert the "road to ruin." The outgoing year is set to be the…

AFP/APP Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that an Israeli military operation on Friday targeting Hamas militants near the Kamal Adwan Hospital has put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service.…

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…