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January 18, 2017 1:07 PM
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said communities that look different become easy scapegoats in times of insecurity and called for a global fight against hate crimes and bigotry. <br/><br/>In a video message to an event jointly organised by the Permanent Missions of Canada and U...
January 18, 2017 12:13 PM
India has welcomed the Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan. India's Deputy Permanent Representative in the United Nations, Tanmaya Lal, in a Security Council debate, said that India welcomes all efforts to end violence in Syria and to jump-start the political process. <br/><br/>He said...
January 18, 2017 11:55 AM
The United Nations World Food Programme has suspended airdrops of food to residents of the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor because of intense fighting between Syrian Government forces and Islamic State militants. <br/><br/>World Food Program spokeswoman Bettina Luescher has said in Ge...
January 18, 2017 10:49 AM
Russia says Moscow is ready to talk to US President-elect Donald Trump's new administration about nuclear weapons and Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow that the two countries could together solve many of the world's problems. <br/><br/>Lavrov said tha...
January 18, 2017 8:58 AM
Outgoing US President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to Wikileaks in 2010. The 29-year old transgender US Army private, born Bradley Manning, will be freed on 17th May, instead of her scheduled 2045 release. <br/><br/>She was sentenced to ...
January 18, 2017 8:53 AM
In Iraq, special forces have pushed deeper into Islamic State-held districts in eastern Mosul and army units fought the insurgents inside a military base in the city's north. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the military had begun movement against the IS terrorists in the west of Mosul witho...
January 18, 2017 8:47 AM
NASA has approved a mission to explore 16 Psyche, an iron-rich asteroid whose contents are said to be worth over 100-thousand times the value of the entire world economy. <br/><br/>The mission, proposed in 2014, would send a NASA spacecraft to Psyche, running tests to learn more about th...
January 18, 2017 8:43 AM
Italian conservative Antonio Tajani has been elected the new President of the European Parliament. Mr Tajani is a former spokesman for Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and an ex-European commissioner. He defeated another Italian, Gianni Pitella, and will take over from Germany's Martin Schulz. Mr...
January 18, 2017 8:41 AM
A baby has been born to a previously infertile couple in Ukraine using a new type of three-person IVF. The Times reports that doctors in Kiev used a method called pronuclear transfer in what is a world first. However, it is not the first baby born with DNA from three parents. <br/><br/>T...
January 17, 2017 9:09 PM
British Prime Minister Theresa May today unveiled her 12-point plan to leave European Union, saying she wants the Brexit deal within two years, but implementation would be 'phased' to avoid a "cliff edge."<br/><br/>In her much-anticipated speech in London today, May a...
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