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Food waste is a ‘significant’ environmental problem.

The resolution "will help bring vaccines to 160 million people in conflict areas or displaced by conflict,'' says the council president.

"We will continue to fight for a government which is of the people, by the people, for the people,'' Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun told the UN General Assembly in a surprise speech on Friday.

UN chief Antonio Guterres told a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.

Khan, an assistant U.N. secretary-general, was widely seen as the favorite to get the job. But neither Khan nor any of the other candidates garnered enough support to be appointed by consensus, prompting Friday’s election in the U.N. General Assembly Hall.

UN Security-General Antonio Guterres said everything possible would be done to mobilise international pressure "to make sure that this coup fails".

Data shows Belarus was the most dangerous country in Europe for journalists in 2020.

1.2 million took part across 50 countries, covering 56 per cent of the world's population.

Hailed by humanitarian groups as a “victory for humanity”, the international treaty banning nuclear weapons doesn’t involve the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons.

The report, compiled by the Ethiopian government, the UN and NGOs on the ground in Tigray, has laid bare the scale of the damage inflicted on the region.

This will allow the first food, medicines and other aid into the region of 6 million people that has seen rising hunger during the fighting between the federal and Tigray regional governments.