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Science stands at heart of sustainable future

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Science stands at heart of sustainable future, UNESCO says on World Science Day
Source:UN News

10 November 2015 – Citing science, technology and innovation as key components of the upcoming United Nations climate change negotiations in Paris, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today urged governments to “do everything to support societies across the world, on every continent, to create and share knowledge.”

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‘Turn digital divides into digital opportunities,’

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‘Turn digital divides into digital opportunities,’ Ban tells annual UN forum on Internet governance
Source:UN News.

10 November 2015 – To cover the “breadth and depth” of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals, the potential of the data revolution must be explored through the use of new and non-traditional sources of data, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed at the 10th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which opened today in João Pessoa, Brazil.

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Former envoy and Nobel laureate says Security Council reform

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UN at 70: former envoy and Nobel laureate says Security Council reform vital for more effective Organization
Source:UN News

13 November 2015 – “Old tools and approaches are not always enough to solve current complex crises.” This is according to former Finnish President and United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari, who highlights the importance of reforming the Security Council, as he reflects on the UN’s 70th anniversary in a new book published for the occasion.

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Bali Declaration targeting the looming TB diabetes

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Indonesia signs the historic Bali Declaration targeting the looming TB diabetes co-epidemic

Bobby Ramakant - CNS

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Economic and Social Council President urges stronger cooperation

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Economic and Social Council President urges stronger cooperation to thwart tax evasion and avoidance
Source:UN News

11 November 2015 – Citing an enormous loss of $100 to $240 billion dollars in uncollected global corporate income tax revenues each year, Oh Joon, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today stressed the need to curb tax evasion and avoidance and called for stronger international tax cooperation.

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Arab-Asia Business Partnership Summit

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Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) joining Arab-Asia Business Partnership Summit in Bangladesh

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Trafficking in cultural property ‘source of enormous illicit profits,’

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Trafficking in cultural property ‘source of enormous illicit profits,’ UN official tells forum
Source:UN News.

5 November 2015 – Trafficking in cultural property has increasingly come to the attention of the international community and represents a source of enormous illicit profits, an official from UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stressed today at a special event in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Religion and Freedom

Religion and Freedom
Published in Cape May County Herald.

"It was her religion to make the best of everything." - Lyndall Gordon.

Do you see any evidence of a natural or supernatural world? If you don’t trust your eyes, augment them with the most powerful microscopes and search inside and outside the human body, as many people have done.

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New funding boosts research for controlling TB

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New funding boosts research for controlling TB, malaria, dengue and leishmaniasis

Bobby Ramakant, CNS (Citizen News Service)

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Ban condemns ‘despicable’ terrorist attacks in Paris,

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Ban condemns ‘despicable’ terrorist attacks in Paris, demands immediate release of reported hostages
Source:UN News

13 November 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the “despicable terrorist attacks” carried out today in various locations in and around Paris and demanded the immediate release of the numerous individuals reportedly being held hostage in the Bataclan theatre.

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, the Secretary-General condemned the multiple attacks that took place in the French capital.

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