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Tourism key to foster trade for least developed countries – UN-backed report

Photo:Meghri is located 400 kilometres from the capital Yerevan of landlocked Armenia, over narro

Brazil: Zika Epidemic Exposes Rights Problems

Photo:Raquel, 25, holds her daughter Heloisa in Areia, Paraíba state, Brazil.

Billions around the world lack safe water, proper sanitation facilities, reveals UN report

Photo:A woman carries jerrycans of water from a municipal water pipe off a main road at the outsk

Aid agenices in Yemen forced to shift resources from fighting hunger to cholera – UN

Photo:In May 2017, at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, patients suffering from se

Safe, effective family planning is key to 'empowering people, developing nations' – UN

Photo:Two women and a baby in a village near the city of Makeni, in the northern province of Sier

Low food prices foreseen in 2017-2026, but countries need to keep markets stable – UN-OECD report

10 July 2017

Education critical in preventing adolescent pregnancy, underscores UN agency

Photo:A 16-year-old girl advocate against child marriage walks to her school, passing a sign that

Antibiotic resistance making gonorrhoea ‘sometimes impossible’ to treat – UN health agency

Photo:Gonorrhea tests can be done on urine samples or samples of body fluid from the area where t

Monthly global food price index up 1.4 per cent; cereal stocks set to hit new record, says UN agency

Photo:A farmer collects rice after a harvest in Sundorgonj, Gaibanda, Bangladesh.

NIH and collaborators identify the genomic cause for Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome

July 6, 2017, Maryland USA