Must accelerate action for sustainable development goals: UN Secy GeneralThe Sustainable Development Goals face challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, and climate change. Urgent global cooperation is...
30 Jun, 2024, 11.34 PM IST
How many Palestinians have died in Gaza war and how will the counting continue?A senior Israeli official told journalists on Monday that around a third of those killed in Gaza so far were enemy combatants, estimating t...
09 Dec, 2023, 05.06 PM IST
Navigating the Legal Maze: Decoding war crimes laws in the Israel-Palestinian conflictThe ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian forces operates within an international legal framework established after World War Two...
12 Oct, 2023, 11.31 AM IST
Afghanistan least peaceful country in the world, says IEP; Taliban calls report "unjust"The Taliban has criticized the Institute for Economics and Peace's 'Global Peace Index 2022' findings, which ranked Afghanistan as the leas...
02 Jul, 2023, 10.06 AM IST
Sudan's military chief freezes bank accounts of rival paramilitary group amid truce attemptsIt remains unclear what immediate effect the freezing would have on the RSF and how Burhan's orders are to be enforced. Over the past decad...
15 May, 2023, 06.59 PM IST
Sudan's army and rival extend truce, despite ongoing clashesSudan's military and paramilitary forces have agreed to extend the 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire for an additional three days after both s...
01 May, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
Governments race to rescue diplomats, citizens from SudanOn Sunday, gunfire wounded an Egyptian diplomat in Sudan, said Ahmed Abu Zaid, spokesman for Egypt's Foreign Ministry, without offering fur...
23 Apr, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
Almost 200 dead, 1,800 wounded in Sudan battles: UNThe European Union's ambassador to Sudan was attacked in his home in Khartoum on Monday, the bloc's top diplomat Josep Borrell said. A spok...
18 Apr, 2023, 02.04 PM IST
Sudan's army and rival force battle, killing at least 56Those tensions had delayed a deal with political parties to get the country back to its short-lived transition to democracy, which was dera...
16 Apr, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Sudan group: 3 killed in fighting between army, paramilitaryIn a statement, the Sudan Doctors' Committee said two civilians were killed at the country's airport and another man was shot to death in t...
15 Apr, 2023, 07.06 PM IST
Sudan's army and rival force clash, wider conflict fearedThe Rapid Support Forces, which accused the army of attacking it first, also said they had seized the airports in the northern city of Mero...
15 Apr, 2023, 06.15 PM IST
Joe Biden says US killed Al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri in AfghanistanIn a televised address, Biden said the strike in Kabul, Afghanistan had been carried out on Saturday. "I gave the final approval to go get ...
02 Aug, 2022, 07.39 AM IST
UN condemns firing in South Sudan that injured Indian peacekeeperAn exchange of gunfire on May 28 into the UN Mission site in Malakal resulted in the injury of three civilians and one peacekeeper.
04 Jun, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
Indian Colonel injured in fresh firing in South SudanAn Indian Colonel was injured in fresh firing in the troubled Malakal region in South Sudan, with the UN mission expressing concern over th...
29 May, 2015, 11.19 PM IST
3 Indians killed in attack on UN base in South SudanThree Indian peacekeepers were killed when attackers stormed a United Nations base in South Sudan where civilians had taken refuge.
20 Dec, 2013, 09.46 AM IST
India continues to stock cluster bombsCluster munitions have a wide-area effect, which makes them inaccurate when used. Unexploded duds lying around also pose a life-threatening...
04 Jun, 2013, 04.40 AM IST
Indian soldiers in South Sudan fought with bravery: UNIndian peacekeepers fought with valour and prevented more casualties in the recent attack against a UN peacekeeping convoy, a senior UN off...
14 Apr, 2013, 10.08 PM IST