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Analysts predict that Lebanon’s newly formed government would eliminate subsidies on basic goods such as fuel by the end of this month. The government has given cash cards to the most needy to replace a bloated subsidy system, but in a country where the UN estimates that 78 percent of the population lives in poverty, there are doubts that this will be enough
Benin introduced an online service to allow people to register their businesses early in the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a United Nations organisation, the E-registration system has worked so successfully that this West African country is now the world’s fastest place to launch a business
Authorities in a Tibetan-populated county of northwestern China’s Qinghai province have shut down a Tibetan-run private school, forcing some students to enroll in government schools but leaving others who have no families to fend for themselves, Tibetan sources say.
United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the situation in Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, is chaired by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of September
As Broadway reopens after 18 months due to COVID-19 Pandemic, theatres implement new safety measures for both audience and cast and crew.Aladin,The Book of Mormon,Come From Away,Diana,Girl From the North Country,Hamilton,The Lion King,Wicked,Chicago all perform in front of fully vaccinated audience
Last month, US President Joe Biden urged Israel’s new leaders to take confidence-building measures to enhance Palestinians’ lives, prompting Israeli officials to release a package that includes 120 million dollars in loans and 16,000 Israeli work licences for Palestinians
According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, Burkina Faso government authorities are taking weeks to register new internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled their villages due to terror attacks. Burkina Faso’s government is being urged by an aid group to accept assistance in registering newly displaced people
Reporters taking photographs of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Prior of a High-Level Ministerial Meeting in Geneva on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan
Afghans can’t work or go to school in the United States.due to their evacuees status A special report
In India, where some youngsters from underprivileged urban populations are unable to attend school, volunteer groups have developed novel ways to educate them