3 September 2025, Cairo, Egypt – In response to the urgent – and growing – threat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses to global health, development and security, the World Health Organization (WHO) is developing a new Global Action Plan on AMR (AMR GAP 2.0) in line with Resolution WHA77.6 and the 2024 UN Political Declaration on AMR. […]
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📍 Washington, D.C., 5 September 2025 — The World Bank Group has officially launched its 2025 Young Professionals Program (YPP), inviting applications from 1 to 30 September. This fully funded initiative offers a gateway for emerging leaders to contribute to global development through a structured two-year career track. The program provides: Eligible candidates must: Participants […]
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📍 Vienna/Helsinki, 5 September 2025 — Terhi Hakala, Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, will undertake an official visit to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan from 8 to 16 September. The mission aims to reinforce the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s engagement with key regional partners. During the visit, Hakala will hold consultations with […]
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📍 Bryan County, Georgia — A sweeping federal immigration enforcement operation has led to the detention of approximately 450 workers at a Hyundai Motor Group construction site in southeast Georgia, prompting an immediate suspension of work on a planned electric vehicle battery facility. The raid, conducted on September 4, involved multiple U.S. agencies including Homeland […]
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📍 Dublin, Ireland — Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has signaled that expanding healthcare infrastructure will take precedence over recruitment in the upcoming national budget. Speaking ahead of Budget 2025, she emphasized that increasing physical capacity is essential to improving surgical services and reducing waiting lists. “What we need is extra capacity, we need […]
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📍 Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas — American Airlines has reached a major milestone in its fleet expansion, welcoming its 1,000th mainline aircraft—a premium-configured Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft arrived at the airline’s Dallas–Fort Worth hub on August 29, 2025, as part of its ongoing modernization and long-haul service enhancement strategy. The new Dreamliner features American’s latest […]
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Ajith Sunghay, Head of OHCHR’s Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), told UN News that the escalation has caused extensive destruction to residential buildings in southern parts of North Gaza governorate and in northeastern areas of Gaza City. This has led to further civilian casualties and forced displacement. Local health authorities reported that 816 […]
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Speaking from the capital Kyiv which was rocked by some of the deadliest attacks of the war last week – and following a visit to the frontline region of Sumy – UN Women’s Representative in Ukraine Sabine Freizer Gunes described to UN News’s Nathalie Minard both the emotional exhaustion and the resilience she had witnessed. The […]
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📍 Kabul, Afghanistan — A second earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, days after a powerful 6.0-magnitude quake devastated several provinces, killing at least 2,205 people and injuring 3,640, according to Taliban government officials. The latest tremor, measured at 5.6 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, hit the same region already […]
Continue ReadingEU–ASEAN Joint Side Event on Carbon Pricing and Markets On the sidelines of the first ASEAN-EU Ministerial Dialogue on Environment and Climate Change, on 4 September 2025, the EU and ASEAN held a high-level side event to strengthen cooperation on carbon pricing and market mechanisms as effective tools for climate action. Carbon pricing and market […]
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