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September 29, 2021
UK risks French anger over fishing permits
NEW YORK — Following a decade of appalling suffering and losses in Syria, and amid a current period of relative calm, now is the time to push for a political process to end the fighting, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Tuesday.“The Syrian people desperately need a Syrian-led and owned political process to deliver,” he said, urging sustained international support towards ending the brutal conflict, and ensuring the country’s sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity, in line with a 2015 Council resolution.Last week, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, reported that more than 350,000 people have been confirmed as killed in the Syrian war, though the actual number is likely to be higher.Pedersen added to this...
September 28, 2021
Now is the time to push for political resolution in Syria: UN envoy
ROME — A lack of food, hunger and malnutrition affect every country in the world, the UN said on Tuesday, in an urgent appeal for action to reduce the amount of food that’s wasted.The call comes as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that 17 percent of all food available to consumers in 2019, ended up being thrown away.An additional 132 million people face food and nutrition insecurity today because of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO said, ahead of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, on Wednesday, Sept. 29.Global problemThe problem of food waste is a global one and not limited to wealthy nations alone, said Nancy Aburto, deputy director of FAO’s Food and Nutrition Division Economic and Social Development Stream, speaking at a press conference in...
September 28, 2021
Food waste: a global problem that undermines healthy diets
September 28, 2021
New global meningitis strategy aims to save 200,000 lives a year
September 28, 2021
Dutch PM's security stepped up over gang threat
LONDON -- When Elena Gorman got the opportunity to switch jobs and work from home, she jumped at the chance.Her former employer couldn't give her the flexibility she needed after her child was born, she says.Elena, who is based in Durham, is now in a job that she loves at another organisation."My new role is brilliant, I had to follow my heart," she told the BBC."My take on working from home is really positive. I can't find childcare for my six-year-old son, so I need to work from home to take him to school and back most days."Without this, I'm not sure if I could have gone back to work after maternity leave."According to a survey for the BBC, just over half (56%) of women said they thought working from home would help them progress at work, as...
September 28, 2021
Working from home boosts career progress, say half of British women
September 28, 2021
Hundreds of migrants arrive in Italian island port by boat
September 28, 2021
Britain puts army on standby as fuel pumps run dry
September 28, 2021
Lava topples church as volcano eruptions continue on La Palma
September 28, 2021
Poland seeks to extend state of emergency on Belarus border amid criticism over migrants' deaths
