Poorest countries facing both obesity and malnutrition: Lancet study
AFP, Paris : Low- and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and undernutrition, both caused by a...
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UN Chief calls climate summit a ‘lost opportunity’
AFP, Madrid, Spain : A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN Secretary-General...
Priyanka Gandhi calls Jamia crackdown attack on India’s soul
IANS, New Delhi :After sitting sombrely for two hours at India Gate as she led a protest against the crackdown on Jamia Milia students, Congress...
Protests against India’s new citizenship law have spread to several college campuses
Al Jazeera News :Protests against India’s new citizenship law have spread to several college campuses across the South Asian country in solidarity over police action...
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UN Chief says cross-border aid into Syria is essential AP, United Nations The U.N. chief is urging the Security Council to authorize the delivery of...
Women are better leaders than men : Obama
BBC News, Singapore : If women ran every country in the world there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, former US...
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Smog forces schools shut in IranAFP, Tehran Air pollution forced schools to close on Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, state media reported, as...
Houses of worship attacked with deadly frequency in 2019
AP :Associated PressOn Dec. 1, a band of assailants opened fire on worshippers at a small-town Protestant church in Burkina Faso, an impoverished West African...
Johnson vows to repay trust of opposition voters
Reuters, London :Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for...
Modi only misled people in last 6 years’: Manmohan Singh
AP, New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday cornered the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government and said that it has only misled...
Lebanese police clash with anti-government protesters
AFP, Beirut :Lebanese police clashed with anti-government protesters in Beirut late Saturday, firing tear gas to prevent them from breaching barricades near parliament, ahead of...
Facing climate emergency, UN summit staggers on
AP, Madrid :After two weeks of talks on tackling global warming, nations have little progress to show for it.Negotiators from almost 200 nations planned to...