Kinling Lo in Beijing + FOLLOW Published: 8:30pm, 28 Sep, 2021 Vikram Misri, India’s ambassador to China, has urged Beijing to take a more “balanced and sensitive approach” to issues like travel curbs. Photo: Xiaomei Chen Beijing has defended its pandemic travel curbs as scientific and proportional after India’s ambassador to China called for a more […]
Extremists have been shown conducting a relentless persecution campaign against Indian Christians after video evidence showed a woman forced to burn an image of Jesus by a mob of Hindu fanatics.
In his address to the UN General Assembly on Monday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian upheld multilateralism as the key to overcoming global challenges including conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
The world’s poorest countries will remain on the margins of the global economy if States are unable to boost economic production, and the international community fails to provide more support, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned.
Tourism “touches almost every part of our economies and societies”, enabling the historically marginalized, and “those at risk of being left behind, to benefit from development”, declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday, marking World Tourism Day.