Progress satisfactory over past year: General Assembly
10 September, 2011
New York, Sept 9 (JOL IBNS) The General Assembly has made progress over the past year in dealing with the issues of poverty reduction, global governance, a green economy and sustainable development, i
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Connect the dots: UN on development
10 September, 2011
New York, Sept 9 (JOL IBNS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday wrapped up a four-nation visit to the South Pacific with a call for countries to “connect the dots” between issues such as
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Ban deplores suicide bombings in Pakistan
10 September, 2011
New York, Sept 9 (RDI IBNS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the suicide bombings apparently targeting senior military figures in the Pakistani city of Quetta, which has killed
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Literacy vital for overcoming poverty: UN
10 September, 2011
New York, Sept 9 (JOL IBNS) With nearly 800 million people unable to read or write, the United Nations today marked International Literacy Day with a warning that illiteracy undermines efforts to elim
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World food prices remain steady: FAO
10 September, 2011
New York, Sept 9 (JOL IBNS) World food prices remained virtually changed during the month of August, with only slight increases observed in the prices of cereals and meat, the United Nations Food and
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Somalia gets new roadmap for peace
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to provide additional resources to Somalia’s transitional leaders following their adoption of a
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Global steps needed for soil fertility: UN
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Pressures on the world’s limited amounts of soils available for agriculture together with land degradation are threatening global food security and imperiling long-tem ef
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Reduce greenhouse emissions: Ban, Pacific leaders
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of Pacific island nations have called for urgent international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, stressing that cl
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"Ensure fundamental rights of person with disabilities"
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Persons with disabilities must enjoy full human rights and fundamental freedoms and enabling them to do so benefits society as a whole, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Ros
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Mass prison outbreak in DR Congo
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is voicing concern about prison security in the impoverished nation after a mass outbr
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NASA observes new characteristics of Solar Flares
09 September, 2011
Washington, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has provided scientists new information about solar flares indicating an increase in strength and longevity that is more than
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Normal rainfall may return to Somalia: UN
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Normal to above-normal rainfall could return to famine-ravaged southern Somalia over the next three months but there may not yet be much easing of the drought there since t
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Arrest me too, sting was mine: Advani
09 September, 2011
New Delhi, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch L K Advani on Thursday created an uproar in Parliament saying he was the one behind the sting operation conducted by his two jailed
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UN to deploy nearly 300 guards for Haiti’s prisons
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Haiti’s understaffed prison services will benefit from nearly 300 new recruits, thanks to a United Nations-backed training programme covering all elements needed for the
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UN observes rise in international tourists
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) International tourist numbers surged by nearly 5 per cent in the first half of this year as the industry continues its recovery following the global dip in the wake of the
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UN asks Sudan to end attack on civilians
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) Two senior United Nations human rights officials on Wednesday called for the immediate end to Sudanese Government air attacks on civilian populations that are reportedly co
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UNSC receives new reports on Iran missiles
09 September, 2011
New York, Sept 8 (JOL IBNS) The head of the Security Council committee set up to monitor and enforce sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme said it had received new complaints about the
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