•Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly today Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN today denied accusations of “genocide” in Gaza and using “starvation” as a tactic, insisting Israel was actually feeding the people of the devastated Palestinian territory. “Those wh...
•Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City today Iran’s president has repeated that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, after military strikes by Israel and the United States and impending sanctions triggered by European powers. “I...
The United Nations has shut down a critical air service in Nigeria’s northeast over severe funding shortages. he U.N. Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), run by the WFP, ended its fixed-wing operations in the country last week after nearly a decade of flying aid workers and supplies into conflict zones, reports Channels TV. “In 2024, UNHAS [&hel...
•Public execution in Iran At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said today, decrying “a systematic pattern of using death penalty as a tool of state intimidation”. “In July alone, Iranian authorities executed 110 individuals. This represents more than double the number of people executed […]...
•Five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel Condemnations poured in from the United Nations and media rights groups yesterday after an Israeli strike killed an Al Jazeera news team in Gaza, as Palestinians mourned the journalists and Israel accused one of them of being a Hamas militant. Dozens of Gazans stood amid bombed-out buildings in [&h...
The United States today announced it has left UNESCO, saying the UN cultural and education agency, best known for establishing world heritage sites, is biased against Israel and promotes “divisive” causes. “Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,” the State Department spokeswoman said. The US exit ...
•Protesters amid clouds of tear gas fired by Kenya police The United Nations today expressed serious concern over the deaths of at least 10 people in Kenya where police and protesters clashed during anti-government demonstrations the previous day. The violence erupted on Saba Saba Day (meaning Seven Seven) when demonstrators annually mark the ...
•Cocaine Cocaine production, seizures, and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said today, with the illicit drug market the world’s fastest-growing. Illegal production jumped to 3,708 tons, nearly 34 per cent more than in 2022, and more than four times higher than 10 years earlier, when it was at a […]
As global delegates gather for the 62nd session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Bodies (SB 62) in Bonn, Germany, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded that the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) being negotiated must truly reflect the voices, rights, and needs of workers and their co...
Nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health, safety and development. This is according to a report released today by the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, as the world mark th...
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