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Pakistan ranked alongside African countries for Child mortality rate
20 Feb, 2018
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is in the list of countries with highest mortality rates as at least one among every 22 babies faced chances of death, revealed a report released Tuesday by United Nations Children’s Fund. According to the report, most of these poor countries are in Africa, where babies ...
US Federal government stumbling closer to shutdown
17 Jan, 2018
*WASHINGTON: *Partisan finger-pointing over immigration policy on Tuesday left the U.S. Congress and the White House stumbling closer to a possible federal government shutdown by the end of the week, although Wall Street held out hopes for a deal to prevent that. Republicans who control Congress ...
India tops list of countries with babies at risk from pollution: UN
6 Dec, 2017
In India, as New Delhi and other major cities hit new toxic smog peaks, the United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the damage that pollution is doing to babies' developing brains.The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, said India topped the list of countries with babies at risk.Air pollution ...
Seven thousand newborns die every day worldwide: UN
20 Oct, 2017
UNITED NATIONS: The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday has fallen to an all-time low, yet children around the world continue to die at an alarming rate, with 5.6 million deaths recorded last year, according to a new U.N. report, which called for making available most ...
Donald Trump to deport 8 million immigrants: LA Times
5 Feb, 2017
LOS ANGELES: US President Donald Trump is working on a new immigration policy under which the new admin has stripped away most restrictions on who should be deported, opening the door for deportations on a very large scale, Los Angeles Times reported.According to calculations by the LA Times, up to ...
Who is going to be new WHO Director General?
24 Sep, 2016
GENEVA: (APP) Six candidates are in the running to take over the helm of the World Health Organization, including the Ethiopian foreign minister who is bidding to be the first African to hold the position, the UN agency said Friday.WHO's 194 member states had until the end of the day Thursday to ...
USAID - Aga Khan University join hands
26 Jul, 2016
KARACHI: (APP) The American Ambassador to Pakistan, David Hale, witnessed the signing of a partnership agreement between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Sindh Community Mobilization Programme (CMP) and Aga Khan University's Human Development Programme. A statement on ...
