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A man claiming to be a descendant of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar has written to the United Nations seeking protection of Aurangzeb's tomb in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar which has been at the eye of a storm lately.…
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The United States has ended emergency food aid for 14 countries, endangering the lives of millions of hungry or starving people, a United Nations agency said Monday. The World Food Program (WFP), which was already grappling with a 40…
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Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has warned. Globally, there was a 40 percent…
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Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are acutely malnourished and more than half a million suffer from potentially fatal food deprivation, the UN said on Tuesday. The children’s agency UNICEF warned that a decade of conflict had stolen…
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Cuts in international aid could bring an end to decades of progress in fighting child mortality, and even reverse the trend, the United Nations warned Monday. Although the annual report from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the…
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The world risks returning to the worst days of the global AIDS pandemic following the sudden halt to US foreign aid funding, the UN's top AIDS official said Monday, warning millions would die. The United States has historically been the…
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The International Organization for Migration recorded at least 8,938 migrant deaths in 2024. However, the real death toll is likely much higher given that many deaths go unreported or undocumented IOM said in a statement. “The rise of…
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UN-appointed experts on Monday branded US authorities’ arrests of foreign students for pro-Palestinian protests on campus “disproportionate” and called for their rights to be respected. US campuses including Columbia University in New York…
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Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in fields outside, the UN said on Friday. About 45,000 displaced…
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The UN has authorized the evacuation of families of its international staff from Burundi following violence in DR Congo, according to a letter seen by AFP on Friday. The Rwanda-backed M23 group has, in recent weeks, seized two major cities…
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