Was a frontrunner in all the Security Councils polls. On wednesday he received 13 favorable votes and 2 expressing no opinion. Guterres served as u. N. High commissioner for refugees for a decade. He worked on issues in iraq, myanmar, somalia, syria and elsewhere. The General Assembly held public hearings in april to select the next u. N. Chief. During them, guterres expressed his resolve to tackle refugee problems. Russias Vitaly Churkin is serving as Council President this month. He said the Security Council will meet thursday morning to formally approve guterres and recommend his candidacy to the General Assembly which must give final approval. U. N. Officials released satellite images of the latest situation in the northern syrian city of aleppo. The photos show heavy destruction of houses and a school caused by air strikes. On wednesday, u. N. Agencies released the images of seven locations in and around aleppo. The photos were taken from the middle of last month into early this m
Was a slim possibility that it was a collapse at the nuclear test site. Joining us, ben wedeman, who is live from tokyo. Ben, what are you hearing from there . Well, christi, multiple sources saying different things, one said it was a 3. 5magnitude earthquake in northeastern north korea, and they said it was a possible explosion. However, were hearing now from officials at the Korean Meteorological Agency that they believe it was neither a collapse of the test site, nor an explosion, a nuclear test, that it was probably a natural earthquake. Now, the United States Geological Survey has said that it happened at a depth of about three miles, but theyve said that the air force organization that can actually test for the presence of nuclear particles in the atmosphere, and that might provide us with a more definitive idea of what has happened, but at this point it seems most of the officials in the area are tending to the belief that perhaps this was a natural earthquake. One official sayi
The forecast was shared at the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum meet which is underway in Pune. It said the worst hit areas in summer are West Afghanistan, north and east Pakistan, adjoining Gujarat-Rajasthan, north Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, Lakshadweep.
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A massive global gathering of scouts in South Korea has been forced to vacate the campsite a week early because of an approaching typhoon, days after extreme heat sickened hundreds of teens and sparked complaints over how the event was being run.