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UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (APP): A Pakistani delegate hit back at India on Friday for portraying as “hate speech” the remarks made earlier by Pakistan while highlighting in the UN General Assembly the Indian atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir.

NEW YORK, January 24. /TASS/: The United States is looking closely at the possibility of imposing new sanctions on Russia over Moscow's support for Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela, US Secretary of State Pompeo said in an interview with Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.

"I never get out in front of decisions on sanctions, but we are looking closely," Pompeo said in response to a question on whether the US is ready to impose new sanctions on Russia over supporting Maduro. "We're looking closely at every element, resources," he added.

NEW YORK (AP) — They are circling each other like wary boxers, with taunts on Twitter, snarky asides and belittling descriptions. They rose to prominence in Manhattan on parallel tracks, amassed wealth real and perceived and displayed a penchant for putting their names on things.

That’s where the similarities end. President Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg could hardly be more different as people, but now they both want the same job: Trump’s.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 (APP): Emphasizing the need for building United Nations’ capacity to deal with the threats to peace, a Pakistani delegate has called on the Security Council to resolve the decades-old Kashmir dispute by implementing its own resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people to decide their destiny.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (APP): Economic inequality is growing across countries with more than 70 per cent of the global population, benefitting the wealthiest, according to flagship U.N. report

The World Social Report 2020, released by the United Nations amid an ongoing summit of the world’s rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, said the historically high levels of inequality are closing the door to a better life for millions of people as greater inequality stifles economic growth and can escalate political instability.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 (APP): Almost half a billion people around the world are stuck in poverty as they struggle to find work or a job that is adequately paid, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), a U.N. agency.

“For millions of ordinary people, it’s increasingly difficult to build better lives through work,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said in a statement.

THE UNITED NATIONS, January 21. /TASS/: Russia calls for holding a briefing under the auspices of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in order to coordinate a consensus conclusion on the incident in Syria's Douma, Russia's Permanent Representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin told an informal session of the UN Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.

"You know, this story with a very murky official report by the OPCW looks like a festering sore, to be honest. We cannot move forward until we eliminate it," Shulgin said.

New York, Jan 20 (AFP/PTI) US bank JPMorgan Chase has said it had purchased a new building in the heart of Paris capable of holding 450 people, the latest step in its plans to move out of London following Brexit.

The newcomers will join the 260 employees already working in the French capital, the bank said in a statement on Sunday.

20 January 2020; AFP: The New York Times on Sunday endorsed Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic presidential nomination, its first time choosing two candidates.

The liberal newspaper's pick comes just a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses on February 3 which officially begins the presidential primary season.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (APP): The World Health Organization, a U.N. agency has issued a fresh warning about the global threat of drug resistant infections which are on the rise as private investment in new antibiotic development declines.

Some 700,000 people die each year because medicines that once cured their conditions are no long effective. Yet the vast majority of the 60 new antimicrobial products in development worldwide are variations on existing therapies, and only a handful target the most dangerous drug-resistant infections, the agency said in a report.