An upcoming UN report on climate change gives the international community its clearest ever warning about the dangers of accelerating climate change, Britain's COP26 President Alok Sharma said on Sunday.
Read more about UN report claims Taliban and Al-Qaeda remain closely aligned, no changes on Business Standard. A report by the UN Monitoring Team has said that the Taliban still maintains close ties with Al Qaeda.The 18-member States report released on Wednesday said, "the Taliban and Al-Qaeda remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties.
He is probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda, report says A significant part of the Al-Qaeda leadership resides in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, including the group’s elusive leader Aiman al-Zawahiri, who is “probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda,” according to a United Nations report.
The report, issued on Friday, said that large numbers of Al-Qaeda fighters and other foreign extremist elements aligned with the Taliban are located in various parts of Afghanistan.
“Member states reported that a significant part of Al-Qaeda leadership remains based in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the core is joined by and works closely with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent,” the twelfth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said.
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 4 (ANI): Taliban on Friday refuted the UN Monitoring Team's report that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties and said it is compiled from "false information" provided by enemy circles and has exploited the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
: Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 10:30 PM IST
Additional 108 million workers pushed into poverty due to COVID, 205 million could be unemployed in 2022: UN report
Additional 108 million workers pushed into poverty due to COVID, 205 million could be unemployed in 2022: UN
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Over 200 million people globally are likely to become unemployed in 2022 and an additional 108 million workers are now categorised as poor or extremely poor as the coronavirus pandemic brought unprecedented disruption that will scar the social and employment landscape for years to come if concerted policy actions are not taken, according to a UN report.
The UN labour agency, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in its flagship World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021, released on Wednesday said the labour market crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and employment growth will be insufficient to make up for the losses suffered until at least 2023