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Asylum and migration: Parliament confirms key reform mandates
Plenary agreed on Thursday to open talks with EU member states on several asylum and migration policy files.
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Sudan envoy calls for ceasefire compliance, as concern mounts over West Darfur
Volker Perthes, who is also head of UN Transition Assistance Mission UNITAMS, welcomed the lull in fighting in some parts of the country between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…
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More action needed in the EU to reduce the impacts of chemical pesticides
[ad_1] News ItemPublished 26 Apr 2023ImagePerry Wunderlich, NATURE@work /EEADespite progress in some EU Member States to reduce their use, pesticide pollution still poses significant risks to human health and the…
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Power struggle imperils Sudan’s future, ‘lights fuse that could detonate across borders’
António Guterres was addressing an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York, and again demanded an end to the fighting between troops loyal to Sudanese Armed Forces…
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Sudan: UN aid operation continues amid dire humanitarian conditions
Ten days of fighting between rival military forces have had a devastating impact on the country’s population. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) warned that people are lacking food, water,…
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Air pollution levels across Europe still not safe, especially for children
More needs to be done to protect the health of children and adolescents from the negative impacts of air pollution, according to European Environment Agency (EEA) air quality assessments published…
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Smart pills to help diagnose gut disorders
[ad_1] New technology improves capability to monitor exact locations in the body. The idea of journeying inside the human body to solve health problems has been around at least since…
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Parliament adopts new law to fight global deforestation
To fight climate change, biodiversity loss and global deforestation, the new law obliges companies to ensure products sold in the EU have not led to deforestation
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WHO mission to Syria quake zone boosts protection from disease outbreaks
“The focus of the mission was to enhance the capacity of the early warning alert and response network (EWARN) and ensure rapid detection, verification and response to communicable diseases alerts and…
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UN, African and Arab leaders to hold virtual talks on Sudan crisis
The UN chief spoke earlier in the day to President William Ruto of Kenya and with the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki. Mr. Guterres will attend…