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UNITED NATIONS, May 04 (APP): A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed disquiet over the Hindu-Muslim clashes in Indian city of Jodhpur that coincided with Eid-ul-Fitre.

UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (NNN-ANA) – The UN Security Council yesterday condemned “in the strongest terms” the continued heinous terrorist attacks targeting civilians in Afghanistan.

The council issued a press statement to condemn the terrorist attacks, including the attack against the Mawlawi Sekander mosque in Kunduz, on Apr 22, which killed more than 25 people, and the attack against the Khalifa Sahib mosque in Kabul, on Apr 29, which early reports said at least 30 people were killed and many others were injured.

UNITED NATIONS, May 04: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for respecting the rights and protecting journalists and media workers who he said are facing “increasing politicization” of their work and growing threats to their freedom to simply do their jobs.

Marking World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, he said that the day shines a spotlight on the essential work they do, bringing those in power to account, with transparency, “often at great person risk”.

UNITED NATIONS, May 01 (APP): Structural weaknesses in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have made them more vulnerable to shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the current food and energy crises, and the situation could worsen if they do not fully participate in global recovery efforts, according to a new UN report.

The report, ‘Present and future of work in the Least Developed Countries’, published on Friday by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a Geneva-based UN agency.

NEW YORK, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Gun theft is rising in major cities across the United States, which police and criminologists say is leading to more and more homicide, said an article published by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Thursday.

"The number of stolen guns reported to police rose by 29 percent in 10 major U.S. cities over the past two years," said the article.

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever U.S. union are headed for a rematch Monday, when a federal labor board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island.

A second labor win could give workers in other Amazon facilities — and at other companies — the motivation they need to launch similar efforts. It could also cement the power and influence of the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group of former and current workers that secured last month’s historic victory.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (APP): Amid the world focus on the crisis in Ukraine, a senior Pakistani diplomat has urged the UN to promote universal accountability for grave human rights violations, especially in situation of foreign occupation – Kashmir and Palestine – as he stressed that there should be no disparity between such violations in two different circumstances.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (APP): Pakistan and China Friday welcomed the UN Security Council’s statement calling for bringing those responsible for the deadly terrorist attack in the Karachi University to justice.

“We expect international community’s full cooperation in identifying the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this terrorist act, and to hold them accountable,”
Ambassador Munir Akram’s said, while reacting to the 15-member Council’s statement on Tuesday’s attack.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (APP): With extreme heat gripping large parts of India and Pakistan, the two countries are working to roll out life-saving health action plans to combat the heatwave, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a Geneva-based UN agency, said Friday.

The extreme heat is impacting hundreds of millions of people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world, threatening to damage whole ecosystems, WMO said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, putting major indexes back into the red for the week after several sharp moves both up and down over the past few days.

The S&P 500 fell 1.2% as of 10:19 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 267 points, or 0.8%, to 33,651 and the Nasdaq fell 1.2%.