Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- The European Union presented world trade negotiators with a last-minute plan to rescue stalled free trade talks on Friday, saying there were still avenues of negotiation to explore after 10 years of trying, (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the U.N. health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate all children, according to AP.
The World Health Organization said (...)
Awwal 10, 1432 / April 14, 2011, SPA -- Bodies litter the streets in parts of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan and mass arrests have followed the end of months of fighting in the West African country, the Red Cross said on Thursday, according to (...)
Awwal 08, 1432 / April 12, 2011, SPA -- The risk to public health from Japan's nuclear accident is no worse after a change in the disaster's status on Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
"Our public health assessment is the same (...)
Akhir 28, 1432, April 02, 2011, SPA -- At least 800 people were killed in intercommunal violence in the western Ivorian town of Duekoue this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday.
"We have information that at (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 H/ April 1, 2011, SPA -- Three German skiers were killed by a massive avalanche in southern Switzerland on Friday, the second deadly incident involving foreign tourists in less than a week, AP reported.
The victims were part of a (...)
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- A parcel bomb exploded on Thursday in northern Switzerland at a building belonging to UBS bank, injuring two people.
According to dpa, the explosion occurred just after 8am (0600 GMT) in the city of Olten, in (...)
Akhir 21, 1432 H/March 26, 2011, SPA -- An avalanche buried a group of French skiers in southern Switzerland Sunday, killing four people and leaving one missing, Swiss police said, according to AP.
The death toll climbed from three after one person (...)
Akhir 20, 1432, March 25, 2011, SPA -- Africa's rhinos face their worst poaching crisis in decades with organized crime syndicates killing more than 800 in the past three years alone, a global network of conservationists said Friday, according to (...)
Akhir 20, 1432 H/March 25, 2011, SPA -- Ounce for ounce, rhino horns sell for more than gold _ one reason why conservationists say Africa's rhinos are facing their worst poaching crisis in decades, AP reported.
Organized crime syndicates have (...)
Akhir 19, 1432 H/March 24, 2011, SPA -- The United Nations voiced deep concern on Thursday at "grave, widespread and systematic" human rights violations in North Korea and renewed the mandate of its special investigator on the situation in the (...)
Akhir 18, 1432 H/March 23, 2011, SPA -- The World Health Organisation on Wednesday said
more funds were needed globally to fight tuberculosis (TB) or
progress made so far could see a setback, dpa reported.
Of serious concern was a type of TB (...)
Akhir 16, 1432, March 21, 2011, SPA -- Contamination of food products by radiation from an earthquake and tsunami-damaged nuclear plant in Japan may be more serious than originally thought, a World Health Organization official
said Monday.
Last (...)
Akhir 1432 / 14 March 2011, SPA -- The United Nations human rights office urged the international community on Monday to move quickly to protect Libyan civilians from violence at the hands of Muammar Gaddafi's advancing forces, Reuters repoted.
The (...)
Akhir 07, 1432 H/March 12, 2011, SPA -- The World Health Organisation
(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's
radiation leak appeared to be "quite low" but the WHO network of
medical experts was ready to assist if (...)
Akhir 06 , 1432 H. / March 11, 2011 -- The tsunami set off by Japan's huge earthquake is currently higher than some Pacific islands that it could wash over, the Red Cross warned on Friday, according to Reuters.
Developing countries are at greater (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- The United Nations Human Rights Council named onFriday the members of a special commission that will investigate abuses during the ongoing political unrest in Libya, dpa reported.
The experts are Cherif (...)
Akhir 01, 1432, March 5, 2011, SPA-- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has received the Chairman of Saudi Human Rights Commission Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Eiban on the sidelines of the 16th session of Human Rights Council, currently in progress (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- At least 180,000 people have now fled Libya amid unrest, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Thursday.
According to dpa, UNHCR has called on the international community to urgently help with a (...)
Awwal 26, 1432, March 1, 2011, SPA -- The Chairman of Saudi Human Rights Commission, Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Eiban has stressed that comprehensive reforms and continuing development of laws and regulations have included many areas of development (...)
Awwal 26, 1432 H/March 1, 2011, SPA -- Speaking before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, an affiliate of the United Nations, Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Aiban, President of the Saudi Human Rights Commission, said Saudi Arabia is currently (...)
Awwal 25, 1432, Feb 28, 2011, SPA -- The Human Rights Council has started here its high-level 16th regular session that will last until March 25.
The delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the session is headed by Chairman of Human Rights (...)
Awwal 22, 1432 H/Feb 25, 2011, SPA -- Swiss police say they are refocusing on the French island of Corsica in their search for 6-year-old Swiss twins missing since Jan. 30, AP reported.
The police also said Friday the girls were last seen with (...)
Awwal 18, 1432 H/Feb 21, 2011, SPA -- Climate change is a major obstacle to a 2004 global treaty aimed at cutting exposure to 21 highly dangerous chemicals, a new U.N.-commissioned report said.
The 66-page report _ obtained by The Associated Press (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- A private helicopter with five people on board
crashed on Thursday in western Switzerland, prompting a rescue
operation, police said, according to dpa.
Further details, including news on possible (...)