Two cargo vessels collided off the Greek island of Chios near the Turkish coast on Friday.The Singapore-flagged cargo vessel Potentia with 19 crew members and the Vanuatu-flagged ship ANT with 13 crew collided in the eastern Aegean Sea, nine miles nort…
Day: 3 June 2023
Kuwait PM condoles with Indian pres. over train crash victims
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Saturday sent a cable of condolences to Indian President Droupadi Murmu over the victims of a train crash in India’s eastern Odish State.Source: Kuwait News Agency
UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse
Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at risk.“As I address you today, I do not have th…
With Prospect of Peace Remote, Palestine Refugee Agency ‘One of the Few Rays of Hope’, Needs Full Funding, Secretary-General Tells Pledging Conference
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered by Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Pledging Conference, in New York today:Ladie…