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L-R: Mr Steven Hill, Executive Secretary IIJ. Ms Francesca Santoro, Head of Department Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, retired Rear Adm. Yaminu Musa , Coordinator National Counter Terrorism Centre at the Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF) 7th Plenary Meeting in Malta. Nigeria and Italy have reaffirmed their...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Action Campaigner, Ms Marina Ponti, has urged activists striving to achieve a more just equitable future for all people and planets to apply for a UN Action Awards. Ponti, who made the call in a statement on Thursday, said activists should apply for the...

UN Population Division has said India is about to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation in the coming days. UN Population Division Director, John Wilmoth, said this at a news conference on Monday at UN headquarters in New York. Wilmoth said the main driver of this trend was...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signed grant agreements worth 1.3 million euros with 15 training centres to build capacity on agroecology in member states. In a statement on the website of the ECOWAS, President of the commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, signed the grant agreements. The capacity...

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Gabonese counterpart Ali Bongo Ondimba in Beijing on Wednesday.

It was a horrifying moment as a fanatic shooter walked up to a politician and his brother in India and shot them in the head. In the shocking scenes from the state of Uttar Pradesh, Atiq Ahmad, was shot dead live on TV as he stopped to speak to journalists....

Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, holds talks with Celso Amorim, chief special adviser to the president of Brazil in Beijing, China, April 13, 2023. /Chinese Foreign Ministry Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s visit to China is an important...

Noting the leaked Pentagon documents, Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said during a regular press conference on Wednesday that the United States should explain to the international community why it is spying on other countries. Wang made the remarks in response to a query on the...

Following an official meeting and a state dinner with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Guangzhou, the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province, where the two leaders had another sit-down. CGTN’s Tang Bo has more from Guangzhou. TANG BO Guangzhou “President Xi Jinping held...

U.S. former President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York, according to media reports. The...