Feb 19, 2018, at 03:53 am
Ottawa, Feb 18 (IBNS): Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history by raising $1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities, hospitals, schools, public transit, roads and bridges across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, media reports said.
Canada: Ontario to expand early years programs for Indigenous children
Feb 19, 2018, at 03:48 am
Ottawa, Feb 18 (IBNS): Ontario is expanding early years programs for First Nation, Métis and Inuit children and their families living in urban and rural areas across the province by investing in more child care spaces, media reports said.
Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board crashes into mountains, all feared killed
Feb 18, 2018, at 07:49 pm
Tehran, Feb 18 (IBNS): An Iranian passenger plane, with 66 people on board, has crashed into the country’s Zagros mountains, media reports said on Sunday.
Canada: Ottawa to end rejection policy for immigrants on medical grounds by April
Feb 18, 2018, at 04:01 pm
Ottawa, Feb 18 (IBNS): Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said this week he will present a plan by April to abandon 40-year-old policy that excludes immigrants based on their medical conditions, media reports said.
Canada's pipeline feud: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh stays neutral
Feb 18, 2018, at 03:50 am
Victoria/Edmonton, Feb 17 (IBNS): New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh has aimed to stay neutral in the entire pipeline feud which involves British Columbia and Alberta, media reports said.
Canada PM Justin Trudeau reaches India today
Feb 18, 2018, at 02:03 am
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IBNS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday reached India on a week-long visit to the Asian country.
Afghanistan: Prayer leader blown up by own explosives
Feb 18, 2018, at 12:13 am
Kabul Feb 17 (IBNS): A prayer leader was killed when his own explosives exploded in Afghanistan's Panjwai district, media reports said on Saturday .
Pakistan: Court gives death sentence to Zainab's killer
Feb 17, 2018, at 10:29 pm
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IBNS): In a major development, an anti-terrorism court (ATC), which was hearing the rape and murder case of seven-year-old Zainab, gave death sentence to Imran Ali Naqshbandi in its verdict on Saturday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: At least five policemen killed in Taliban attack
Feb 17, 2018, at 07:30 pm
Kabul, Feb 17 (IBNS): At least five policemen were killed in Afghanistan's Zabul province by Taliban insurgents.
Donald Trump visits hospital to meet shooting victims
Feb 17, 2018, at 02:40 pm
Florida, Feb 17 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump visited Broward Health North Hospital on Friday to meet several victims of the Florida school shooting incident are being treated.
Korean nuclear crisis, Middle East quagmire eroding global security, UN chief tells Munich summit
Feb 17, 2018, at 02:00 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): A nuclear threat on the Korean Peninsula and a quagmire in the Middle East are “two qualitative changes” that further eroded global security over the past year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told an annual conference on international security policy in Munich, Germany.
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:56 pm
New York, Feb Countries need to strengthen the effectiveness of their tax regimes to unleash much-needed domestic resources to ensure the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the promotion of inclusive economic growth, United Nations and as key international economic and financial organizations have urged.
Haiti: UN determined to support authorities in strengthening rule of law
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:50 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Strengthening the rule of law and improving the national police and the judicial system in Haiti will require political will on the part of the authorities, and the United Nations is determined to support this goal, said Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita.
UN development agency remains committed to support Lebanon, says agency head
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:46 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Reverberations of the Syrian conflict – which has now lasted longer than World War II – are being felt throughout the region, including in Lebanon, which shares most of its land border with the war-torn country, and hosts hundreds of thousands of its refugees, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned on Friday.
crisis-torn eastern DR Congo, UN food relief agency expands operations to stem hunger
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:43 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Escalating violence, daunting logistical challenges and insufficient funding have prompted the United Nations food relief agency to broaden its emergency operation in the war-ravaged Kasai region in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:33 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Bold, innovative solutions are now on the table to accelerate the prevention and control of deadly noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – such as heart and lung disease, cancers and diabetes – as a new United Nations health agency high-level commission gets set to begin its work.
UN, partners complete first aid delivery in months to Syria’s war-battered east Ghouta
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:30 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Thousands of civilians in east Ghouta now have life-saving food and medical supplies after the first aid convoy in nearly three months reached the besieged enclave just outside the Syrian capital of Damascus, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country said on Friday.
Service and Sacrifice: Honouring Nigeria’s contribution to UN peacekeeping
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:26 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Since the 1960s, Nigeria has been a major contributor of troops and police to United Nations peace operations, having served in dozens of missions. Most recently, Nigerian troops were the military backbone of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), from 2003-2018, helping to restore security throughout a country that had undergone a brutal civil war.
UN rights chief urges Iran to halt executions of juveniles on death row
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:16 pm
New York, Feb 17 (JEN): Expressing concern over a “surge” in the number of juvenile offenders being executed in Iran, the United Nations top human rights official called on the country to abide by its obligations under international law and immediately halt all executions of people sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under the age of eighteen.
Canada: An urgent need for new prescription guidelines for medical marijuana
Feb 17, 2018, at 05:54 am
Ottawa, Feb 16 (IBNS): The guideline based on a review of clinical trials involving medical cannabis.published Thursday in the Canadian Family Physician journal, alleged that there was an overstatement of benefits of medical marijuana and research on its medicinal properties was lacking, media reports said.
US: Florida shooting suspect may have had ties to white nationalist group
Feb 17, 2018, at 04:09 am
Florida, Feb 16 (IBNS): In the deadliest school shooting in America since Sandy Hook in 2012, Nikolas Cruz who was charged on Thursday with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Wednesday in a Florida high school, was alleged to be a member of white nationalist militia, media reports said.
Canada PM Justin Trudeau won't meet Sikh leader during India visit
Feb 16, 2018, at 10:12 pm
Ottawa, Feb 16 (IBNS): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will begin his India visit on Saturday but he will not meet Sikh leader Capt. Amarinder Singh in the entire tour amid the controversy over the Sikh separatist movement that had linked the Canadian government, media reports said.
Canada: Patrick Brown to sue CTV News for false reporting on sexual misconduct allegations
Feb 16, 2018, at 08:31 pm
Toronto, Feb 16 (IBNS): Resigned Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown has said he will sue CTV News for false reporting on his alleged sexual misconduct with two women.
UN chief expresses ‘profound sadness’ at Florida gun massacre
Feb 16, 2018, at 02:24 pm
Feb 16, 2018, at 02:20 pm
New York, Feb 16 (JEN): Aid agencies in Mali have launched the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP ), asking for $263 million to provide humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people, a senior United Nations aid official in the country said
Alarming gaps in reliable data leave 28 million uprooted children unprotected – UN
Feb 16, 2018, at 02:08 pm
New York, Feb 16 (JEN): There are “alarming holes” in the availability, reliability, timeliness and accessibility of the data and evidence essential for understanding how children and their families are impacted by migration and forced displacement, United Nations agencies and their partners warned on Thursday.
UN says more than 10,000 civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan conflict last year
Feb 16, 2018, at 02:04 pm
New York, Feb 16 (JEN): More than 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghanistan conflict during 2017, a nine per cent drop over 2016, according to a United Nations report out Thursday which also revealed rising casualties caused by suicide bombings and attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
New guidelines on global care standards during childbirth issued by UN health agency
Feb 16, 2018, at 01:53 pm
New York, Feb 16 (JEN): The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines on global care standards throughout labour and immediately after childbirth aimed at reducing the use of needless and potentially harmful routine clinical and medical interventions.
Canada: Toronto Public Health launches this year's condomTO campaign, entitled Life in the Bowl
Feb 16, 2018, at 03:13 am
Toronto, Feb 15 (IBNS): Toronto Public Health (TPL) launched has this year's condomTO campaign entitled Life in the Bowl, to coincide with Valentine's Day, to help promote safer sex and reduce stigma around condom use, media reports said.
Canada: Toronto Mayor Tory declares February 14, 2018 as Toronto's first annual Safe City Day
Feb 16, 2018, at 01:21 am
Toronto, Feb 15 (IBNS): Toronto Mayor John Tory on Thursday declared February 14, 2018 as Toronto's first annual Safe City Day, media reports said.