Nairobi, June 28 (IANS) A new universal Sustainable Development Agenda will be launched next year after the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday. The UN chief added that governments will be expected to append their signatures to the new mandate that will help solve problems that bedevil communities […]
Beirut, June 28 (IANS) Damascus Friday rejected the Lebanese government’s suggestion of setting up refugee camps for displaced people along its borders with Syria. The rejection came after Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil met ambassadors of the five permanent member states earlier in the day and discussed the possibility of setting up refugee camps along its […]
Baghdad, June 21 (IANS) Iraq’s Sunni militant groups have seized a large part of a key city near the Syrian border after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces Saturday in the country’s western province of Anbar, security sources said. The militants, including those who are linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an […]
Kabul, June 21 (IANS) The Afghan election commission Saturday announced that it is delaying the release of the result of the presidential election runoff held June 14. “I am saying that announcing partial results will be delayed for one or few days,” Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, chairman of the election commission, told a press conference here. He […]
Islamabad, June 21 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday ordered blocking of roaming facility of Afghan subscriber identity modules (SIMs) of cellphones to curb anti-state and criminal activities of terrorists in the country, officials said. Security officials said militants frequently use mobile phones to carry out terrorist attacks and that Afghan mobile phones are also […]
Washington, June 21 (IANS) Amid reports that more than one million Iraqis have fled their homes as Sunni militants continued their advance towards Baghdad, US President Barack Obama has again asked Iraqi leaders to come up with a political solution. Because “if they don’t, there won’t be a military solution to the problem”, Obama told CNN […]
Washington, June 19 (IANS) Eminent Indian plant scientist, Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, has been named winner of the 2014 World Food Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in the improvement of wheat crop. Rajaram, who is now settled in Mexico, is credited with increasing world wheat production by more than 200 million tons in the years […]
Cairo, June 18 (IANS) Al Jazeera Arabic service journalist Abdullah Elshamy, who was jailed without any charge in Egypt for the last ten months, has been released, a media report said Wednesday. Abdullah Elshamy, a 26-year-old Egyptian reporter who was arrested during a reporting assignment of dispersal of Rabaa Aladaweya sit-in in capital Cairo Aug 14, […]
Washington, June 14 (IANS) The US Friday accused Russia of sending tanks into eastern Ukraine, calling Moscow’s new effort to support the militants there “unacceptable”. “In the last three days, a convoy of three T-64 tanks, several BM-21 or Grad multiple rocket launchers and other military vehicles crossed from Russia into Ukraine near the Ukrainian town […]
United Nations, June 14 (IANS) The UN agencies are stepping up humanitarian aid in north Iraq, where humanitarian and security situation is worsening due to recent attacks by Islamic insurgents, a UN spokesperson told reporters Friday. “The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is concerned about the shortage of shelter as the displacement numbers increase in Iraq,” Xinhua […]