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Dr M: Malaysia is committed on conservation, environmental protection
NEW YORK: Prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia takes its commitment to conservation seriously and is proud to be a signatory to an extensive list of global treaties on conservation, wildlife, forestry and the environment. He also said
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Amazon fires: Bolsonaro accuses media of ‘lying’
UNITED NATIONS: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the media yesterday for “lying” about the fires in the Amazon and criticised international concern for the rainforest as fuelled by interest in the region’s biodiversity and mineral wealth. A day after shunning
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Dr M: Let’s end Rohingya’s suffering now
NEW YORK: Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has sounded the clarion call for the international community to put the Rohingya crisis squarely on its radar with a view to resolving it now. Speaking at his first engagement since
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A livid Thunberg takes on world leaders at UN climate summit
UNITED NATIONS: Teenage activist Greta Thunberg angrily denounced world leaders yesterday for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers in the heart of the United Nations by demanding: “How dare you?” The Swedish
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UN: About 350,000 people displaced in Yemen
SANAA: Some 350,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen so far in 2019, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Thursday. “In 2019 alone, nearly 350,000 people have been displaced,” the
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Pakistan warns of genocide in Kashmir
GENEVA: Pakistan’s foreign minister told the United Nations human rights forum yesterday that India’s military presence in the disputed Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir raised the spectre of genocide. India, which stripped Kashmir of its autonomy on Aug 5, in response
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Sarawak has reduced absolute poverty rate
SARIKEI: Sarawak has reduced the rate of absolute poverty among its people, including those who live in the rural areas, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg. Touching on a United Nations report which said the percentage of
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UN: Malaysia’s poverty rate is higher than what is reported officially
PUCHONG: Malaysia’s claim that it has the world’s lowest national poverty rate is untrue as the official figure grossly undercounts poverty. In a statement, United Nations human rights expert Phillip Alston said that when it comes to extreme poverty and
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US will act if Iranian tanker tries to deliver oil to Syria
UNITED NATIONS/ATHENS: The United States will take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker sailing in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of US sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned yesterday. Greece said earlier
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China: India, Pakistan must not make unilateral decision on Kashmir
UNITED NATIONS: UN Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s UN envoy said yesterday after the council met on the issue for the first time
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