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Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new UN report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations. The report by hundreds of the world's top scientists was supposed to be approved by government delegations on Friday at the end of a weeklong meeting in the Swiss town of Interlaken. The closing gavel was repeatedly pushed back as officials from big nations such as China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the United States and the European Union haggled through the weekend over the wording of key phrases in the text. The report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change caps a series that digests vast amounts of research on global warming compiled since the Paris climate accord was agreed in 2015. A summary of the report was approved early Sunday but agreement on the main text dragged on for several more hours, with some observers fearing it might need to be ...

The UN Committee which released its third periodic review of China in its recent report, underscored a number of issues related to human rights of Tibetan people

The report by UN human rights experts, released in Geneva on February 6, 2023, talks about a million Tibetan children who have been separated from their families by the Chinese authorities

A UN agency stated that Afghanistan continues to face one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with 28.3 million people expected to require aid in the upcoming year

The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity, the UN said

United Nations accused China of actions that "may constitute international crimes, in particular, crimes against humanity" in Xinjiang for mass detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities

The report mentions WFP estimates of an increase of 47 million acutely hungry people in 2022 across 82 countries due to the lingering effects of Covid-19 and the continuing Russian-Ukraine war

India's growth contrasts with the global growth rate that is forecast at 3.1 per cent this year and the next, according to the report

Scientists have been increasingly vocal and specific about what will happen if the global temperature continues to rise

India received $64 billion in Foreign Direct Investment in 2020, the fifth largest recipient of inflows in the world, according to a UN report

Report researching the post-pandemic future of global value chains found that trade within those supply lines shrank in absolute terms.

A report by the UN Monitoring Team has said that the Taliban still maintains close ties with Al Qaeda.The 18-member States report released on Wednesday said, "the Taliban and Al-Qaeda remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties. No material changes to this relationship, which has grown deeper as a consequence of personal bonds of marriage and shared partnership in struggle, now cemented through second generational ties," reported Tolo News.The report comes amid US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan and plan to leave completely by September 11.As part of last year's agreement between the preceding Trump administration and the Taliban, the group promised to instruct its members "not to cooperate with groups or individuals", reported Tolo News."While the Doha agreement has set some expectations for a break in the longstanding relationship between the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the publicly available text of the agreement does not define expectations, and its annexes remain .

India is estimated to record an economic growth of 7 per cent in 2021-22

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Reddy also said 34 cases related to the presence of Islamic State (IS) and 20 cases related to the presence of Lashkar-e-Toiba across the country were registered by the NIA

Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent operates under the Taliban umbrella it is led by Pakistan-born Osama Mahmood, say UN monitors

The report says India recorded largest reduction in number of people living in poverty in that period

India's economic growth is forecast to slow to 1.2 per cent in 2020, a further deterioration from the already slowed growth of 4.1 per cent in 2019

India is among the 15 most affected economies due to the coronavirus epidemic and slow down in production in China, with a trade impact of 348 million dollars

Bachelet also said the recent National Register of Citizens verification process in Assam has caused great uncertainty and anxiety