39 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen: UN agency
- 11-Jun-2024
DUBAI: A boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off Yemen, leaving at least 39 dead in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route from Africa, a UN agency said Tuesday. “Tragic incident off #Yemen coast: Boat with 260 migrants sank yesterday. 39 dead, 150 missing, 71 survivors,” the International Organisation for Migration said […]
Italy to resume funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees
- 25-May-2024
ROME: Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday announced Rome would restore funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as he met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa. “Italy has decided to resume financing specific projects intended for assistance to Palestinian refugees, but only after rigorous controls that guarantee that not even a penny […]
80,000 fled Rafah since Israel hiked operation: UN agency
- 09-May-2024
RAFAH: The United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Thursday that about 80,000 people had fled Rafah in the three days since Israel intensified military operations in the south Gaza city. “Since Israeli forces military operation intensified on 6 May, around 80,000 people have fled Rafah, seeking refuge elsewhere,” UNRWA said on X, formerly Twitter, […]
Pakistan says it backs UN agency in ensuring food security
- 22-Apr-2024
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has told the just-concluded UN Economic and Social (ECOSOC) Youth Forum that it supports the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in creating a facility with broader and people-centric criteria to further strengthen it’s efforts to defeat hunger, improve nutrition and food security in the developing countries. “We have considerable potential in the […]
More than 500 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia: UN agency
- 19-Nov-2023
BIREUEN, Indonesia: Three boats filled with more than 500 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Sunday, a UN agency said, in one of the biggest arrivals since Myanmar launched a military crackdown on the minority group in 2017. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each […]
UN agency warns it will run of fuel in 3 days in Gaza
- 23-Oct-2023
The U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees warned that it would run out of fuel by Wednesday, complicating further assistance amid ongoing Israeli aerial attacks on the enclave and the looming threat of Israel’s ground invasion. Lazzarini warned that “without fuel, we will fail the people of Gaza whose needs are growing by the hour, […]
North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor: UN agency
- 30-Aug-2021
SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a “deeply troubling” development, the UN atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons programme. The development on the 5-megawatt reactor in Yongbyon — North Korea’s main nuclear complex — comes with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and […]
Coronavirus having little impact on climate: UN agency
- 02-Apr-2020
Though factories have shut, planes have been grounded and cars left in the garage, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change.
Pakistan enhances its contribution to UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees
- 11-Nov-2018
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has enhanced its contribution to the UN agency entrusted to assist Palestinian refugees, reads a press release. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to United Nations Maleeha Lodhi handed over the enhanced contribution to Director UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Peter Mulrean in New York. UNRWA ran into deep financial trouble earlier this year when […]
US halts funding to UN agency helping Palestinian refugees
- 01-Sep-2018
WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday halted all funding to a U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees in a decision further heightening tensions between the Palestinian leadership and the Trump administration. A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the decision as “a flagrant assault against the Palestinian people and a defiance of U.N. resolutions.” […]