UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blamed international bodies such as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for their “failure” to find a solution to the ongoing humanitarian crises.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (NNN-XINHUA) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, once again called for a humanitarian ceasefire, in response to the increasing number of deaths in Gaza.
“This war is having a staggering and unacceptable number of civilian casualties, including women and children, every day,” the top UN official said in a statement. “This must stop. I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (APP): Pakistan, on behalf of a group of 17 countries, called on the United Nations to “urgently” establish a mechanism to ensure the protection of Palestinian civilians being subjected to relentless bombardment in Gaza by the Israeli military and to intensify efforts to promote a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- In a world shadowed by the turmoil in Ukraine and Gaza, the urgency for reforming the UN Security Council has reached an unprecedented peak, Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), said on Thursday.
Amid the assembly's annual discourse, evaluating the United Nations' foremost platform for peace and security, Francis conveyed with deep conviction that without fundamental structural reform, the council's effectiveness and credibility are destined to progressively diminish.
13 November 2023; MEMO: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, alongside staff members, observed a minute of silence on Monday to honour colleagues who perished in Gaza due to Israeli assaults, Anadolu Agency reports.
(AP) --- U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for possible cases of lead poisoning in children after at least 22 toddlers in 14 states were sickened by lead linked to tainted pouches of cinnamon apple puree and applesauce.
Children ages 1 to 3 were affected, and at least one child showed a blood lead level eight times higher than the level that raises concern, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley ‘s presidential campaign will reserve $10 million in television, radio and digital advertising across Iowa and New Hampshire beginning in the first week of December, a massive investment designed to give the former United Nations ambassador an advantage over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a critical moment in the GOP nomination fight.
NEW YORK (AP) — Foiled in their longshot bid for an early verdict, Donald Trump’s lawyers will start calling witnesses of their own Monday in the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire.
First up: Donald Trump Jr., who’ll be returning to the witness stand two weeks after state lawyers quizzed him during a major stretch of the trial that also featured testimony from his father and siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Latvia’s president says Russia is planning for a long war in Ukraine and he has a message for countries wavering on continuing military support to Kyiv: Keep supplying arms or the Ukrainians will lose and Russia will have a green light for threatening others in the future.
Edgars Rinkēvičs said in an interview with The Associated Press that “it is important to actually fight for international peace, and peace in Europe, because if we stop Russia in Ukraine, then Russia is not going to be able to challenge other countries.”
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., will leave Congress in February after 19 years, a spokeswoman confirmed Sunday.
The Buffalo area Democrat scheduled a news conference for mid-morning.
In an interview with The Buffalo News published Sunday, Higgins said he has grown frustrated with the House of Representatives.
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