The UN turns 75
For their first podcast of 2020, our UNcomplicated hosts, Sinduja Srinivasan and Jason DeWall, celebrate a milestone year for the UN, as it turns 75.
WHO Founded: April 7, 1948 (72 years)
World Bank Founded: July 1944 76 years
UN Founded: October 24, 1945 (75 years)
NATO Founded: April 4, 1949 (71 years)
Seven countries including Iran have lost their right to vote in the UN General Assembly because of upaid dues, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Monday.
The UN charter calls for such a voting rights suspension for countries whose arrears equal or surpass the amount of the contributions due from them to UN coffers in the previous two years.
The other six countries are Niger, Libya, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan and Zimbabwe, Guterres said in a letter to the president of the General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir of Turkey.
Masood Azhar, chief of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) was on Wednesday declared as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council.
A. Lionel Messi
B. Cristiano Ronaldo
C. Neymar
D. Robert Lewandowski
Europa League trophy got stolen in _________.
A. Brazil
B. Mexico
C. France
D. Australia
A. Vienna
B. Geneva
C. New York
D. Nairobi