U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world needs to wake up and take urgent action to change the trajectory on conflicts and geopolitical divisions, the climate crisis, and economic inequality.“We need a course correction,” Gu…
BAMAKO, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mali’s ruling junta said that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the United Nations mission there, giving him 48 hours to leave the country.The decision comes after a Malian rights activist…
A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and another wounded in an attack on their helicopter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the organization said.The aircraft came under fire at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) during a f…
BUJUMBURA (Burundi)— East African leaders called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at an extraordinary summit called to find ways of calming the raging conflict.The Saturday talks were hosted in Burundi by the seve…
Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches.The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rig…
One U.N. peacekeeper was killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday when a helicopter operated by the peacekeeping force came under fire while in the air, the U.N. mission called MONUSCO said.The helicopter was able to land in the provinc…
Italy’s coast guard Friday found eight bodies, including the body of a pregnant woman, on a migrant vessel that was attempting to make the journey across the Mediterranean from Tunisia to Italy.The bodies were unloaded on Italy’s Lampedusa island, the …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040.The new Framework launched ahead of the World Cancer Day cam…
A World Health Organization doctor abducted in Mali has been freed, authorities told Agence France-Presse on Saturday.”Diawara Mahamadou, a WHO support doctor with the regional health directorate in Menaka, was released on February 2,” said a health of…
Madrid, Feb. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gordon Brothers, the global advisory, restructuring and investment firm, is offering for immediate sale by private treaty machinery and equipment from four plants in the Canary Islands formerly leased by the firm to the Spanish food products manufacturer and distributor José Sánchez Peñate. José Sánchez Peñate primarily produced […]