Security Council to meet on post-COVID-19 security threats
United Nations: The UN Security Council will hold a high-level summit during the annual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly later this month to discuss security threats in the world after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Niger’s UN Ambassador Abdou Abarry, who took over the rotating council presidency on Tuesday, told a virtual press […]
China seeks to set up military logistic facilities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Myanmar: Pentagon
Washington: China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a dozen countries, including three in India’s neighbourhood, to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances, according to a Pentagon report. In addition to the three neighbours of India — Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar — the […]
UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine
London: The World Health Organisation says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the UN health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan — one from South Darfur […]
UNSC reform talks being ‘held hostage’, used as ‘convenient smokescreen’ by some nations: India
United Nations: The intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform are being “held hostage” and used as a “convenient smokescreen” by countries that do not wish to see any changes in the most powerful UN organ, India has said, demanding tangible action to achieve the long-delayed reforms. India also underlined that it will take steps to […]
Iran’s supreme leader denounces UAE’s recognition of Israel
Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader has called the United Arab Emirates’ recognition of Israel “treason that will not last for long”, the state media in Iran reported on Tuesday. The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei come just as a joint US-Israeli delegation wrapped up a trip to Abu Dhabi on the first Israeli commercial air flight […]
UN agency laments summer’s ‘deep wound’ to Earth’s ice cover
Geneva: The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere — the planet’s frozen parts — amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that temperatures in the […]
US vetoes UN resolution over Islamic State fighters’ return
United Nations: The United States vetoed a UN resolution Monday calling for the prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of all those engaged in terrorism-related activities, saying it didn’t call for the repatriation from Syria and Iraq of foreign fighters for the Islamic State extremist group and their families which is “the crucial first step.” US Ambassador […]
First direct Israel-UAE flight lands in Abu Dhabi amid deal
Abu Dhabi: A Star of David-adorned El Al plane flew from Israel to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight between the two countries. The Israeli flag carrier’s flight marked the implementation of the historic U.S.-brokered deal to normalize […]
Earth may have been wet ever since it formed: Study
London: Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed — instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water, according to a study. Researchers, including those from the Universite de Lorraine in France, determined that a type of meteorite called enstatite chondrite […]
Sudan, rebel alliance reach deal in ongoing peace efforts
Juba (South Sudan): Sudan’s transitional authorities and a rebel alliance signed a peace deal on Monday following months of tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the country’s decades-long civil wars, but other powerful armed groups have thus far declined to join them. The deal was reached between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front, a […]
