80% of world’s poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards; South Asia has largest number: UN
Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to address the issue, according to a new UN report.
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UN Aviation Agency declares Russia is responsible of Flight MH17
The United Nations aviation agency said that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of 298 people.
Adil Aziz
Pakistan population to hit over 400 million mark in 2092
UN report has placed Pakistan, whose current population is over 245 million, in the group of countries whose population is expected to increase through 2054 and could potentially peak in the second half of the century or later.
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UN chief to pay ‘solidarity’ visit to flood-hit Pakistan next week, Pakistan welcomes
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit flood-battered Pakistan next week to see for himself the “tragic situation facing millions of men, women and children” in the worst impacted areas of the country. Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram, who met the UN chief yesterday, and Asim Iftikhar Ahmed, the Foreign Office spokesman, welcomed the UN…