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BEIJING, Apr 10 (APP): The inaugural cohort of visiting scholars under the Belt and Road Meteorological Visiting Scholar Program officially commenced their year-long research and training program in China. The group consists of seven scholars from meteorological departments and research institutions in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Thailand, […]

UNITED NATIONS, APR 09 (APP): Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to take appropriate steps to ensure implementation “in letter and spirit” of its resolution (2728) that called for a ceasefire in besieged Gaza. Speaking in the General Assembly, Ambassador Munir Akram said that […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 08 (APP): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Taliban not to move ahead with their plans to restrict or block access to Facebook in Afghanistan, saying that would further impede the free flow of information in the country. […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (APP): The UN General Assembly President, Dennis Francis, appealed on Monday for “all those with leverage” to use their power to bring an end to the six-month-long war in Gaza. Francis convened the 193-member Assembly, UN’s most representative body, following the […]

BEIJING, April 9 (APP): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday stressed that China and Russia have set an example of friendly interaction and win-win cooperation between major countries as well as neighbors. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 08 (APP): Global food prices in March recorded their first monthly increase in seven months, driven by higher costs of vegetable oils and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, has said. The prices, however, posted a […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 07 (APP): With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action, access to healthcare has now become “totally inadequate” following six months of Israeli attacks, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has said. That’s the assessment […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6 (APP): Israel’s war on Gaza has turned into a “betrayal of humanity”, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief has said. In a statement on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the war, Martin Griffiths, the outgoing under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and […]

BEIJING, Apr 6 (APP): China has provided equipment of early warning system to Gwadar port to help mitigate detrimental impacts of natural disasters like catastrophic flood, torrential rain as well as metrological hazards. The equipment doled out by China Meteorological Administration (CMA) to Pakistan Meteorological […]