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Iran has begun construction at nuclear site, satellite photos show

South China Morning Post by the Associated Press
Posted at Oct 29 12:37 PM

A United Nations agency says Tehran is building underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after the last one exploded in a reported sabotage attack. Images show new or regraded road to Natanz nuclear facility, with vehicles and what appears to be construction equipment at site. Read more »

UN, World Bank urge schools to remain open amid pandemic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 29 09:30 AM

The UN and World Bank pleaded in a new report Wednesday for schools to remain open despite Covid-19 risks, highlighting the damage the pandemic has inflicted on children's education, especially in poor nations.    Read more »

UN mobilizes P1.4 billion worth of aid for PH coronavirus fight

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 28 12:45 PM

The United Nations in the Philippines said Wednesday it has mobilized some P1.4 billion worth of COVID-19 response through 20 of its agencies. Read more »

UN scraps in-person meetings after COVID-19 outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 08:12 AM

All in-person meetings at the UN were cancelled Tuesday for the rest of the week after a member state reported five staffers had tested positive for the coronavirus.   Read more »

Used car exports drives pollution to developing world: UN

Taimaz Szirniks, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 04:48 AM

PARIS - Getting rid of old cars is helping clean the skies over developing nations, but many clunkers are ending up in developing countries where they are add significantly to air pollution, a UN report warns. Read more »

Pandemic slashes international tourism by 70 pct: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 27 10:41 PM

International tourist arrivals plunged by an annualized 70 percent during the first eight months of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) said Tuesday. Read more »

Child malnutrition reaches new highs in parts of Yemen — UN survey

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 27 09:23 PM

According to a UN Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis of malnutrition in southern Yemen, acute cases in children under five increased about 10% in 2020, to more than half a million.   Read more »

167 million Pinoys are drug addicts? Duterte blames poor eyesight for wrong info

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 27 10:36 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday blamed his poor eyesight for his recent erroneous statement that nearly 168 million Filipinos are addicted to narcotics, more than the country's 100-million population.    Read more »

U.N. nuclear ban treaty to take effect Jan. 22

Kyodo News
Updated as of Oct 25 11:45 AM

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted in 2017, will become the first international norm outlawing the development, testing, possession and use of nuclear weapons. Read more »

Locsin urges UN to rally nations in fight vs COVID-19

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 23 10:57 PM

MANILA - The country's top diplomat on Friday called on the United Nations to rally its member states to “to set aside self-interest and work in solidarity” to beat the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

Half-measures won't save nature, scientists warn

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 23 04:00 AM

PARIS - Bending the curve of nature's rapid decline will require attacking the problem aggressively along several fronts at once, leading scientists warned Thursday. Read more »

PH extends help to Rohingyas in Myanmar's Rakhine state

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 23 12:59 AM

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. announced Thursday the Philippines' assistance for refugees from conflict-torn Rakhine state in Myanmar. Read more »

With 2 in 100 Pinoys still using drugs, is Duterte crackdown a failure?

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 20 06:40 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said 2 in 100 Filipinos were still addicted to illicit drugs. What does this mean for his 4-year-old anti-narcotics drive that has left thousands dead?    Read more »

North Korean justice system treats people as 'less than animals': HRW

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 19 11:38 AM

Torture, humiliation and coerced confessions are rampant in North Korea's pretrial detention system which treats people as worth "less than an animal", a rights group said Monday in a report on the country's opaque legal processes. Read more »

Traffickers profiting as pandemic makes crime harder to crack, UN warns

Kieran Guilbert, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Oct 18 09:47 AM

Human traffickers are capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic to target people ranging from jobless migrants to out-of-school children, two United Nations specialists said, warning that the fallout from COVID-19 had driven the crime further underground.   Read more »

PH gov't to UN: Stop weaponizing, politicizing human rights

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 03:04 AM

The Philippines called for an end to the "weaponization and politically motivated use of human rights," amid continuous calls of activists and experts to investigate the current administration's alleged abuses.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 15 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 11:45 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Rape is 'monstrous', but death penalty not the answer, says UN rights chief

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 15 08:42 PM

Sentencing rapists to death, as Bangladesh did Thursday, is not an appropriate punishment even for such a heinous crime, the UN rights chief said.    Read more »

Seeking gov't subsidy in the time of COVID-19

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 12:58 PM

Women farmers along with peasant groups picket in front of the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City on Thursday to demand immediate aid and production subsidy for farmers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

N.Korea's nuclear, missile programs 'serious threat' to security: Pentagon chief

Reuters
Posted at Oct 15 05:47 AM

WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday said North Korea's nuclear and missile programs pose a global threat, after Pyongyang's unveiling of previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missiles at a predawn military parade. Read more »