UN marks 1st World Tuna Day with calls to conserve it
UNITED NATIONS—The UN marked the first World Tuna Day on Tuesday with calls to conserve one of the globe’s most popular fish to be caught and eaten.
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UNITED NATIONS—The UN marked the first World Tuna Day on Tuesday with calls to conserve one of the globe’s most popular fish to be caught and eaten.
UNITED NATIONS—Kids growing up in the Seychelles think of the ocean as their backyard, says Ronald Jean Jumeau, the Seychelles ambassador to the UN.
THE distinction of serving in the United Nations today is that you may well be the last of the tribe of UN ambassadors. We have two UN ambassadors, by the way; one in Geneva who answers all human rights and labor concerns and there’s me in New York addressing largely the geopolitical questions like should the UN vote to go to war with the United States in Iraq.
THE New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the United Nations to lead an independent international investigation into the deaths of more than 7,000 people in the course of President Duterte’s “war on drugs”.
THE global effort to protect and conserve biodiversity got a much-needed boost during the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Conference in December 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.
UNITED NATIONS—A senior UN humanitarian official working in the Syrian city of Aleppo said on Wednesday that combat damage in the former rebel-held eastern districts is enormous but there is a sense of optimism because the guns have fallen silent—at least for now.
BEIRUT—The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Saturday supporting efforts by Russia and Turkey to end the nearly six-year conflict in Syria and jump-start peace negotiations, as a fragile country-wide cease-fire wavered.
IN a furious riposte a day after the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pledged to exact a “political and economic price” from countries who acted against Israel.
UNITED NATIONS—Parties to the Syrian conflict have systematically disregarded the laws of war, showing time and again that they are willing to do anything to gain military advantage, the UN humanitarian chief said on Wednesday.
THAILAND is in urgent need of a boost in the capacity of fixed-line broadband infrastructure to off-load mobile- data traffic from the increasingly congested wireless network.
The 21st century is considered the century of cities. Never before have so many people lived in urban centers, and the shift from countryside to cities is—unfortunately—continuing, unless we succeed to decentralize and regionalize, create smart local government units and invest outside the investment centers.
By Magnolia Uy / Trade Service Officer / Foreign Trade Service Corps, DTI
DEFENSE Secretary Voltaire Gazmin on Saturday said Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have been attacked by Syrian rebels, who are holding dozens of Fijian troops hostage.
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