Sinking of Titanic remembered on 100th anniversary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 14 April and sank in the north Atlantic as it travelled from England to New York City.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on 14 April and sank in the north Atlantic as it travelled from England to New York City.
The UN Security Council is meeting behind closed doors in connection with the deployment of an advance observer mission to Syria.
It is expected that up to 12 personnel will travel to the country ahead of a possible full mission that could comprise up to 250 observers.
There has been considerable improvement in access to water, sanitation and hygiene or WASH, according to a new reported unveiled on Thursday.
The Security Council is consulting on the possibility of sending an observer mission to Syria.
This follows a request from the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, who briefed council members via videoconference on Thursday.
Dianne Penn reports.
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It has been 18 years since the genocide in Rwanda, and on Wednesday the UN remembers the victims in its annual commemoration of this tragedy.
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As the world population gets older, the number of people living with dementia is also growing.
The United Nations is this week remembering the 1994 genocide in Rwanda when extremist Hutus massacred about 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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