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New York: The United Nations today helped launch the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety in a bid to reduce a scourge that kills an estimated 1.3 million people every year and leaves millions of others injured or permanently disabled.

New York: About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1.3 billion tons – is lost or wasted, according to a new study commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

New York: Policies aimed at expanding trade in Bhutan and promoting the Asian country’s unique goal of maximizing “gross national happiness” should be linked to strategies for educating women and enhancing their positions in society and in the economy, a new United Nations report says.

Did the United States achieve “justice” for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks by killing their prime instigator and the world’s worst-ever jehadi hate-peddler Osama bin Laden, as President Barack Obama claimed? The honest answer must be, the US accomplished a limited form of justice, as retribution or revenge, not full justice.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will win the Kerala electoral sweepstakes this time? That is the question the state is wrestling with these days.

Considering that the Allahabad high court’s judgment on the Ayodhya dispute attracted a great deal of flak when it was delivered last year, it is hardly surprising that the Supreme Court has now decided to put it on hold. Not only that, there is latent criticism in its description of the judgment as a “rare” one “whose operation has to be stayed”. Such a suspension would not have been necessary if the rarity underlined judicial acumen.

New York: UN General Assembly President Joseph Deiss today called for a “renewed and strengthened partnership” between the world’s poorest countries and their development partners to boost their productive capacities as they strive to improve their economies and combat poverty.

Brazil has joined an OECD chemical testing agreement that allows countries to share and accept each other’s results, saving money for governments and industry and reducing the risk of trade disputes.

New York: Participants at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development have made important progress on key issues such as mining, transport and waste management and a successful outcome is within reach, the commission’s chairman said today.

New York: A major United Nations conference aimed at devising a new strategy to help the world’s poorest countries unlock their economic potential and accelerate development opened today in Turkey, where of heads of State and senior officials from international organizations are among 7,000 participants in attendance.