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WHO warns hospital in Gaza facing dire situation
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 9th Jan. UN humanitarians on Monday issued new reports of “significant casualties, particularly among women and children” and pleaded for overwhelmed medical teams to be allowed to continue their…
IOM helps Trans woman get new life in Türkiye
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 7th Jan. International Migration agency on Saturday said that Shiraz, a 23-year-old Trans woman from Alexandria, Egypt, with support from the agency gets a new life in her new home in Izmir,…
FAO reports food price inflation easing
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 6th Jan. UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Friday that the Food Price Index ended the year just over 10 per cent below its December 2022 level, easing concerns over food price…
WHO warns COVID infections rising fast, under-reported
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 6th Jan. World health agency on Friday confirmed that corona virus numbers are rising globally and that we “should expect more cases” in the coming winter months in the northern hemisphere.
WHO…
OCHA head warns Gaza relief ‘impossible mission’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 6th Jan. UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths on Friday warned that “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable” and demanded Israeli forces and Palestinian militants Hamas to meet their…
WHO says hospitals, healthcare facilities attacked 600 times in Gaza so far
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 6th Jan. UN health agency said on Friday that hospitals in Gaza and other vital medical infrastructure have been attacked 600 times since war erupted in response to the Hamas-led terror attack in…
OHCHR chief voices concern over bombings in Iran
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 5th Jan. UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday has expressed shock at a deadly terror attack claimed by ISIL that killed scores of people taking part in a public commemoration event in…
Guterres hails major Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 5th Jan. UN Secretary General on Thursday welcomed the biggest prisoner of war exchange between Russia and Ukraine since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia about two years ago.
Mr. Guterres in a…
OCHA head calls to end ‘ruinous’ Sudan conflict
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 5th Jan. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday that the international community must take “decisive and immediate action” to bring nearly nine months of brutal civil war in Sudan to…
Afghanistan hits by 4.3 magnitude of earthquake
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 5th Jan. According to the National Centre for Seismology on Thursday reported that an earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan.
The quake occurred at 01:12:11 IST.…