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2020 on course to be one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ GENEVA: This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded and could even top the record set in 2016, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are therefore set to make up all six of the hottest years since modern records be­­gan in 1850, the UN’s World Meteoro­lo­gical Organisation said in its provisio­nal 2020 State of the Global Climate report. “2020 has, unfortunately, been yet another extraordinary year for our climate,” said WMO secretary-general Petteri Taalas.…

UN’s World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The United Nations’ World Food Programme declared as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for the agency’s “efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war”. “For its effort to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict,” announced the Nobel Prize Committee on Twitter. BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the…

Kashmir will never be a part of India: Pakistan responds to Indian statement on PM’s UNGA speech

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Pakistan — in a strongly worded rebuke to the Indian response following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) — categorically stated that Jammu and Kashmir never was and never will be a part of India, adding that New Delhi has no claim over the region other than that of a “military occupier”. “In Jammu and Kashmir, India has no other claim than that of a military occupier. It is compelled to use naked force to impose its occupation on an unwilling and oppressed…

Global Tourism Loses $320bn Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, UN

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The global tourism industry has experienced a downfall due to coronavirus pandemic. The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said that a loss of $320bn in exports has been witnessed in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk. In a video address, the Secretary-General said that the global health crisis has caused international tourist arrivals to decrease by more than half. This decrease has devastated the world’s economies. Tourism is the third-largest export sector of the global economy. Guterres said…