UN chief urges efforts to end crisis in Congo
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for more efforts to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for more efforts to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
January 2025 was the warmest on record globally, with the average surface temperature 0.79 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2000 January average, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported on Thursday.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the army to prepare a plan to allow the "voluntary departure" of Gaza residents for any country willing to receive them, according to a statement issued by his office on Thursday.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed on Thursday that his country has never sought to develop nuclear weapons.
The U.N. has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their home country's heightened surveillance of citizens for possession of outside information and subsequent public trials, including execution by firing squad.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russian troops carried out a “massive strike with long-range precision weapons on Ukrainian objects of energy, and military control and communications.”
In a statement, the WHO regional director said that one out of eight people lived with a mental health condition globally.
At least five people were killed in the attacks on Kyiv and authorities in the cities of Kharkiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk also reported missile and rocket attacks, CNN reported.
Explosions were reported in many other places across the country in what appears to be the most widespread set of Russian attacks since the early weeks of the war, says the BBC.
The objective of the "Social Concertation" is to improve the income, wages, and competitiveness of entrepreneurs in the medium term.
