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Warmer months ahead for many parts of the planet: UN weather agency
Many parts of the world can expect above average temperatures in the coming months even without the presence of an El Niño event to drive warming, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.…
New UN initiative to support financial systems that ‘work better for everyone, everywhere’
From developed to developing countries, no nation is immune from financial “gaps and vulnerabilities”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Monday.
Speaking at the High-level Panel on…
As children freeze to death in Syria, aid officials call for major cross-border delivery boost
Humanitarian assistance needs to be scaled up significantly to more than a million people displaced by fighting in northwest Syria, a senior UN aid official said on Monday, amid reports that children are freezing to death on…
COVID-19: ‘Top priority’ must be on containment, insists WHO’s Tedros
Containing the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic should still be everyone’s “top priority”, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
In total, 61 countries outside China have…
Humanitarian Affairs Council discusses int’l orgs’ work mechanism
Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Abdelmohsen Tawoos on Sunday chaired a meeting to discuss the mechanism of international organizations’ work.
The meeting, which was…
IRC:65% of Yemenis have barley something to eat
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that 65% of Yemenis have barely anything to eat, given the war that has been going on in their country for five years.
The ICRC added on its Twitter, that 80% of the 30 million…
There has been no confirmed coronavirus case in Yemen: Minister of Health
The Ministry of Health and Population in the National Salvation Government in the Capital Sanaa revealed the health situation in Yemen on Saturday.
The Ministry, in a statement, held the UAE full responsible for the emergence of any…
Coronavirus death cases in China rise to 2,912
The death toll from the new coronavirus in the country has risen to 2,912, and confirmed infected cases exceed 80,000, Chinese authorities said on Monday.
According to china’s National Health Commission, in the past 24 hours, 42 new…
Coronavirus death cases rise to 29 in Italy
Italian authorities have announced that eight more people have died of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 29, while tests have confirmed that some 240 people have contracted the virus over the past day, according to…
UN releases emergency funds to help vulnerable countries fight coronavirus COVID-19
$15 million dollars has been released from the UN’s Central Emergency Fund to help fund global efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, particularly vulnerable countries with weak health care systems.…