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Washington, Feb 27: Facebook has doubled down on its efforts to take on the growing Chinese short-video making platform TikTok, this time by launching a new app for creating and sharing raps.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, addressed the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament.

Dr Shireen Mazari asks UNHRC to respect rights, freedom of everyone National February 25, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari has said as a guardian of universal human rights, the UN Human Rights Council must demand respect for rights and freedom of everyone including those under occupation and shun double standards based on political considerations. Addressing the High Level Segment of 46th Human Rights Council session, Dr Mazari said that state sponsored hatr...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said the world continued to bear the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination drive has given hope to every country, including Nepal.

Damascus, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad denounced on Thursday that the United States and its allies in the West use the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to lobby other nations.

AOC slams Biden and Harris over migrant detention centre India lashed out at Pakistan at the 46th session of the Human Rights Councils High-Level Segment and said the release of Al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is a "clear example" of the nexus between the Pakistani and terrorists. She also said that by acquitting Omar Saeed Sheikh, Pakistan has clearly stated its hand in glove with such terrorist organizations. Omar Saeed is the terrorist convicted of abducting and murdering US journ...

Geneva [Switzerland], February 24 (ANI): Terming Turkeys remarks regarding the situation in Kashmir and the implementation of UN resolutions as "completely unacceptable," India has said it is "ironical for a country which has trampled upon its own civil society to pass unjustified comments on others internal matters". India also rejected the factually incorrect and unwarranted references to India in the OIC statement. Exercising the Right of Reply under the High-Level Segment of the 46th Sessio...

Geneva [Switzerland], February 25 (ANI): Despite reports and testimonies of human rights violations emerging from Xinjiang and Hong Kong, China on Wednesday continued to deny the West's condemnation for Beijing's international actions.

Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, calls out health inequality as a human rights concern for small states, as access to life-saving COVID vaccines remains severely hampered in the developing world. Barbados and Dominica are among regional front-runners in vaccination drive, but millions more doses are needed for the region to reach herd immunity, economists say. GENEVA, February 24, 2021 — Poorer countries will most likely “bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of...

New Delhi, Feb 25: The four-hour long trading halt on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has raised several questions among the investors and brokers who may have to face huge losses as a result of the glitch. One major question is why did the disaster recovery site not come to the rescue when it was needed the most.