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  • $1.2 billion needed in urgent UNFPA appeal for women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in 2024

    Date: 2023-12-12 20:25:48 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:87 - ID:10488593

    NEW YORK, Dec 12 (MENA) – This year saw records toppled one after the other: The hottest year in human history; the highest number of people displaced; hunger crises at their worst, according to a press release issued by the United Nations ....

  • Pakistan contemplates retaliation after attack on security post in Dera Ismail Khan

    Date: 2023-12-12 19:31:14 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:80 - ID:10488422

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (MENA) - Pakistan is contemplating a serious retaliation in response to a terrorist attack that targeted a security post in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The attack has resulted in the killing of 20 ....

  • Russian envoy calls on West to break silence, condemn Kiev's terrorism

    Date: 2023-12-12 18:36:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:75 - ID:10488423

    MOSCOW, Dec 12 (MENA) - Western states can still take a stand against the terrorist actions of the Kiev regime, says Rodion Miroshnik, Russian Ambassador-at-Large on Kiev Regime Crimes, TASS news agency reported. "Up until today we have heard no ....

  • 5 people died in Stockholm when construction elevator crashed to ground

    Date: 2023-12-12 16:47:24 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:67 - ID:10488236

    STOCKHOLM, Dec 12 (MENA) – All five people inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm have died, a Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday. Authorities had previously only reported that the occupants were seriously ....

  • Climate talks enter last day with no agreement in sight on fossil fuels: AP

    Date: 2023-12-12 10:52:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:29 - ID:10487368

    WASHINGTON, DEC 12 (MENA) - A stark standoff between countries that want a dramatic phase-out to fossil fuels causing damaging warming and those that don’t crushed hopes for an on-time finish to a critical climate summit Tuesday, according AP news ....

  • Magnitude 4.9 earthquake jolts parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    Date: 2023-12-12 10:18:09 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:25 - ID:10487000

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (MENA) - Earthquake tremors of 4.9 magnitude hit various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on early Tuesday morning, according to Urdu Point. According to the seismological center, the earthquake tremors were felt in Swat, ....

  • The Guardian view on stalemate in Ukraine: a more realistic approach is no bad thing

    Date: 2023-12-12 09:24:58 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:20 - ID:10487160

    LONDON, Dec 12 (MENA) - A year ago, Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Washington as not merely the respected leader of a courageous nation, but as a global star, the Guardian said in an editorial about the stalemate in Ukraine. As he returns for a ....

  • Russia's military death toll in Ukraine rises to about 340,650

    Date: 2023-12-12 08:34:26 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:17 - ID:10487073

    KIEV, Dec 12 (MENA) - The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed about 340,650 Russian invaders in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 12, 2023, including 800 occupiers in the past day alone. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said ....

  • Biden: Netanyahu is in a difficult position

    Date: 2023-12-12 08:30:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:10487007

    WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden has hinted at the existence of unrest in the relationship between him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, indicating that the latter is in a “difficult position”. Biden, who was ....

  • 18,100 Ukrainians cross border into Poland over past 24 hrs

    Date: 2023-12-12 08:27:18 GMT - Poland - World - SN:15 - ID:10487059

    WARSAW, Dec 12 (MENA) - About 18,100 Ukrainian refugees have crossed into Poland over the past 24 hours, the Polish Border Guards revealed Tuesday. Meanwhile, nearly 20,800 people crossed from Poland into Ukraine on Monday. More than 17.64 ....

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