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New York: The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil’s truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.

New York: Over 12,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen by boat in October, the highest monthly total since the United Nations refugee agency began tracking the flow of between the Horn of Africa and Yemen nearly six years ago.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that the National Bank of Poland has joined the Fund’s New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) with immediate effect. The NAB is a standing set of credit lines under which now 37 members or their institutions have committed to provide supplementary resources to the IMF totaling up to SDR 366.1 billion (about US$573 billion). The National Bank of Poland’s commitment to the NAB is SDR 2.5 billion (about US$4 billion).

New Delhi: The India-Bangladesh Joint Working Group which met here on Friday has finalised the agenda for the two-day home secretary level talks between the two countries slated to begin on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: Though India is emerging as the world’s second fastest growing economy at around 8% annual GDP, it is faced with the tough challenge of sustaining the upward trend. And at the heart of this challenge lies the power sector. Electricity demand is expected to rise at a much higher rate than ever before. In the last decade alone, electricity demand has increased at an average of 6% per annum, which places India as the world’s sixth largest electricity consumer with installed capacity of 181 GW.

There is no business like the airlines business. At least, so it would seem in India. One does not require any special qualification or expertise to be an airlines operator. One does not even need much personal money to be in this business.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency assistance of $3 million to help Thailand get back on its feet in the wake of the country’s worst flooding in more than half a century.

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – Next week in Baku, Azerbaijan, ministers from 10 countries spanning the Caucuses, and Central, East and South Asia will gather to mark a decade of achievement, including $17 billion of investments in energy, trade and transportation under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.

New York: The United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan today called on the country’s military to ensure that all child soldiers within its ranks are released after more than 50 teenage soldiers were let go earlier this week.

New York: The voluntary repatriation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in a refugee camp in western Côte d’Ivoire began this week with the support of the Government, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today.