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Spyware – MEPs sound alarm on threat to democracy and demand reforms
EP spyware inquiry committee has adopted its final report and recommendations, condemning spyware abuses in several EU member states and setting out a way forward.
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Sudan’s warring generals take ‘important first step’ on humanitarian protection
Volker Perthes – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the country (UNITAMS) – underscored that the rival military leaderships…
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Severe funding shortfalls could leave 200,000 Palestinians hungry
Unless donors meet the gap, 60 per cent of the people the agency assists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories will no longer be receiving food assistance in June, the World…
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Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal
That was the message conveyed by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, to a meeting held on Thursday in Istanbul, to discuss the future of the Initiative, with senior…
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Tuna War Games, BLOOM appeals against the EU and France
While the members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) have been gathered in Mauritius since Monday for their annual meeting, the political stakes for the protection of marine ecosystems…
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Locust outbreak in Afghanistan threatens wheat harvest
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounded the alarm on Wednesday after locusts were spotted in the country’s north and northeast. FAO said that a “full outbreak” this year…
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Sudan displacement doubles in one week, says IOM
Speaking at a press briefing at the United Nations in Geneva, IOM’s spokesperson Paul Dillon said that according to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, more than 700,000 people were now internally…
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Iran: Over 200 executed since January; Türk calls for end to death penalty
More than 10 people are put to death each week in Iran, High Commissioner Türk said, making the country “one of the world’s highest executors”, with at least 209 people…
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Sudan crisis: Guterres condemns looting of main WFP compound in Khartoum
In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, António Guterres noted that “most, if not all, United Nations agencies and our humanitarian partners, have been impacted by large-scale looting”, since the military power struggle…
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Pentagon developing wearable technology to predict different diseases
The U.S. Department of Defense is making investments in wearable technology that has the potential to predict the occurrence of different diseases.