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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (APP): In its latest global report, the United Nations migration agency has said that international migrants only make up 3.5% of the world’s 7.7 billion population, with most of them coming from India, Mexico and China.

“This figure remains a very small percentage of the world’s population (at 3.5 per cent), meaning that the vast majority of people globally (96.5 per cent) are estimated to be residing in the country in which they were born,” the International Migration Organization (IOM) Global Migration Report 2020 said.

29 November 2019; AFP: Zimbabwe is facing "man-made" starvation with 60 percent of the people failing to meet basic food needs, a UN special envoy said Thursday after touring the southern African country.

Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, ranked Zimbabwe among the four top countries facing severe food shortages outside nations in conflict zones.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 28 (APP): Pakistan has expressed the hope that the resumption of direct talks between the United States and the Taliban would open the way towards intra-Afghan negotiations that would lead to a peaceful settlement of the long-drawn conflict in Afghanistan.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (APP): Talash, an acclaimed Pakistani feature film, which focuses on the detrimental impact of malnutrition and stunting on children’s development was screened at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening before a large and distinguished gathering.

The show was arranged by the recently-formed UN staff Recreation Pakistan Club in the chamber of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as part of the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Right of the Child.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 26 (APP): Pakistan has challenged India’s qualifications for permanent or non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council, saying that New Delhi was in “blatant” violation of the 15-member body’s resolutions aimed at settling the decades-old Kashmir dispute.

26 November 2019; AFP: The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, the UN said Tuesday in its annual assessment on greenhouse gases.

The United Nations Environment Programme said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent each year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C.

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the world’s richest men, has formally launched a Democratic bid for president.

Ending weeks of speculation, the 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a written statement posted on a campaign website describing himself as uniquely positioned to defeat President Donald Trump. He will quickly follow with a massive advertising campaign blanketing airways in key primary states across the U.S.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The UN Trusteeship Council has elected Jonathan Guy Allen, deputy permanent representative of Britain to the United Nations, as its president at the opening its 72nd session.

Anne Gueguen, deputy permanent representative of France to UN was elected as the council's vice president.

Both were elected by acclamation after being nominated on the basis of consultations among council members Friday. The council also adopted its provisional agenda by acclamation at the brief organizational meeting.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and he will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides who offered new details on Saturday about the New York billionaire’s plans to navigate his wealth as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement.

“He has never taken a political contribution in his life. He is not about to start,” Bloomberg chief adviser Howard Wolfson said in an interview. “He cannot be bought.”

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- The humanitarian situation remains very serious in South Sudan and it is anticipated that 7.5 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance next year, said a UN official on Friday.