The international travel traffic light system is being simplified in England with a single red list, as part of an overhaul of the rules from October 4, BBC reported.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also said eight countries would be taken off the (...)
VIENNA — The coastlines of Africa stretch across 30 000 km and are host to heavy industry, sprawling peri-urban settlements, in addition to tourism and shipping activities, all of which contribute to the growing challenge of marine plastic pollution (...)
Let us briefly review what had happened in those years; I mean before and after Sept. 11, 2001 when Al-Qaida terrorists struck the United States. This is also an attempt to put Sept. 11 in its chronological context.
In 1991, Saudi Arabia revoked the (...)
Many extreme environmental events have a devastating effect on people's lives, and a new UN report reveals that many of them are linked by the same underlying causes. On the day the study is released, we look at the impact of a locust swarm on a (...)
Qaida attacked the embassies of the United States of America in Kenya and Tanzania. The simultaneous attack claimed the lives of 224 people, and injured 5,000 others.
Of course, the attack was horrific and provocative to the American public opinion, (...)
The UN launches No Denying It, a new 10-part climate action podcast, on Thursday, featuring interviews with inspiring young activists, and the voices of internationally renowned celebrities, such as actors Ed Norton and Michelle Yeoh.
Across the (...)
The Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a 156-year-old giant business conglomerate with interests in construction, real estate, oil & gas, infrastructure, water engineering, shipping, and biotechnology, has increased its presence in the Gulf region, including (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Guinea following a confirmed death from Marburg virus disease, the first known case in the country and West Africa, the UN agency reported on Wednesday.
Marburg, a highly infectious disease that (...)
VIENNA — Many of us know that agriculture is a big contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But did you know that a lot of these emissions are a result of fertilizer overuse, which can actually be tackled?
Growing of crops, raising of (...)
Life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine is being cut off in several countries by fighting and blockades, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Program (WFP) said in a new report issued on Friday.
Of grave concern (...)
The United Kingdom will this week begin delivering 9 million COVID-19 vaccines around the world, including to Indonesia, Jamaica and Kenya, to help tackle the pandemic, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced on Wednesday.
Five million doses are (...)
Kenya and the United Kingdom have signed a new five-year defense cooperation agreement in a side event during President Kenyatta's three-day official visit to the UK.
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Defense Dr. Monica Juma and her UK counterpart Ben (...)
WASHINGTON — The United States announced on Tuesday nearly $200 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Somalia, the US Department of State said in a press statement.
"The United States is providing nearly $199 million in additional humanitarian (...)
Fewer women will regain jobs lost to the COVID-19 pandemic during the recovery period, than men, according to a new study released on Monday by the UN's labor agency.
In Building Forward Fairer: Women's rights to work and at work at the core of the (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, at the outset of the Council of Ministers meeting, was assured that the preparations of arrangements of the agencies concerned with serving pilgrims was complete and they will provide the highest level of care (...)
LONDON — The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan's fight against new variants of COVID-19.
Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on UK (...)
After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of Maine, growing crops ranging from beets to broccolini.
Thousands of Somalis who fled persecution and civil war (...)
based tech startup extends its Mass Transit solutions for businesses to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, serving the corporate and business sector as a Saudi limited company.
The Kingdom would be Swvl's sixth market after its success across 9 major (...)
The Sudanese Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Prof. Yasser Abbas, travelled today to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to take part in the 24th periodic ministerial meeting of the Southern Nile Basin countries, with the participation of (...)
The IKEA Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation have announced plans to launch a $1 billion fund to boost access to renewable energy in developing countries — one of the key commitments made during a series of virtual UN ministerial forums this (...)
President of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Dr. Bandar Hajjar received yesterday Ambassador of Kenya to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Peter Ogego.
The two sides discussed the Bank's approval of 40 projects so far to improve Kenyan communities (...)
With school closures triggered by COVID-19 disrupting both education and access to nutritious meals, two UN agencies on Tuesday launched new measures to help improve the well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents around the (...)
The Western Peat Meadows of the Netherlands look like classic Dutch countryside (cows, windmills and green fields), but the views mask a significant loss of biodiversity, caused by intensive farming methods.
As the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (...)
Due to the ever-increasing demands of the global economy, the resources of the planet are being used up at an alarming rate and waste and pollution are growing fast.
The idea of a more sustainable "circular economy" is gaining traction, but what (...)
RIYADH — Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan made a phone call on Saturday to his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed to congratulate him on the UAE's election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Prince Faisal (...)
