Events

The United Nations in Syria is appealing urgently for help to ease the catastrophic situation for tens for thousands of people impacted by fighting in Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, and the northern town of Afrin.

On March 19, 2018 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sergei Aleinik, met with the Minister of State for Trade Policy of the Department for International Trade of the United Kingdom, Greg Hands

"Changes in social behavior during adolescence... are not triggered by puberty, so we can't blame the hormones...."

"Many human pathogens... also cause only incomplete protection against reinfection. In this case, imperfection can be deadly."

Scientists were surprised to learn that a hydrogel they developed to deliver drugs had its own therapeutic qualities.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic paid an official visit to the Comoro Islands.

Sweden will host an international strategy meeting on chemicals and waste.

An update on the progress of the United Nations (UN) Joint Global Programme on Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control was presented at the tenth meeting of the UN Interagency Task Force on Noncommunicable Disease (UNIATF). 

The ministers will discuss, among other things, EU's financial instruments for external action after 2020, on which decisions will be made in the forthcoming negotiations concerning the EU

In a statement attributable to his spokesperson, Mr. Guterres stressed that “all concerned in Syria and the region have a responsibility and must abide by international law and relevant Security Council resolutions.”

Over 22,000 desperate Congolese refugees crossed Lake Albert to Uganda last week, with four drowning when their boat capsized on the perilous journey from the conflict-hit eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

With only 50 per cent of medical facilities fully functional in Yemen, the United Nations health agency is striving to fill a “critical” healthcare shortage and will use a $9.1 million emergency response grant.

On 20–27 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will visit Tokyo, Seoul and the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, aka SETI, is running into terrestrial roadblocks caused by cryptocurrency mining, according to the research center's chief scientist, Dan Werthimer.