Events

Amid rising violence and displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 7.7 million people face acute hunger - a 30 percent increase over the last year, FAO and WFP warned today in a new report.

Prime Minister Pavel Filip met the head of the Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO) in Moldova, Simone Giger, today, in the context of developing a new framework for cooperation between the Governments of Switzerland and Moldova for the following five years.

KAMAZ-LEASING concluded another contract with ITEKO transport company ITECO. Under the agreement, 200 KAMAZ-5490 NEO long-haul truck tractors are to be leased.

A 13 million-year-old infant ape skull may reveal what a common ancestor of apes and humans looked like.

Scientists heated a moon rock to more than 1,436 degrees. What they discovered could expand where we look for alien life.

A plan put forth by the Italian government for rescue organisations operating in the Mediterranean to adhere to a code of conduct when rescuing migrants from Africa has been rejected by a number of NGOs, including the Swiss-based Doctors Without Borders.

The Czech Republic has filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Justice against a new European Union directive restricting possession of firearms.

Priti Patel urges the international community to follow the UK’s push to stem the cholera outbreak in Yemen.

Supporting herders to get back on their feet and preventing further livestock losses and suffering are crucial in drought-hit Ethiopia where hunger has been on the rise this year,warned today FAO.

The United Nations humanitarian wing is deeply concerned about the safety and protection of the thousands of civilians inside Raqqa city, many of them women and children, who are caught in the crossfire of the ongoing conflict, a UN spokesperson said today.

The World Bank has completed the evaluation of the functioning of ProZorro electronic public procurement system in Ukraine.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic sent a telegram of condolences to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi. 

Minister Dacic and Ambassador Hasanov on the observance of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Serbia-Azerbaijan bilateral relations.