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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said international food aid has reached the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012.

A meeting of the ad hoc working group, tasked to develop a convention on the Caspian Sea's legal status, was held in Moscow on June 8-10, said the communiqué adopted following the event.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) called for international cooperation to continue the fight against air pollution.

The transportation ministers of the Caspian countries will meet in Astana in 2017, Russia's Transportation Minister Maksim Sokolov told Trend June 9 in Baku.

Overweight mothers are almost three times more likely than normal-weight mothers to have a daughter who will be obese as an adult, according to the findings of a New Zealand-Swedish study out Thursday.

A candidate for the post of the United Nations Secretary-General, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Susana Malcorra today (7 June) shared her vision of “a United Nations which job centres on putting people first, caring for the planet, and of shared prosperity, guided by issues and focused on generating an impact.”

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn, wheat settled higher for their fifth successive trading days on Tuesday, while soybeans also extended a little gains.

French household consumption of goods was down by 0.1 percent in April after rising 1.1 percent in March, national statistics institute Insee said on Monday.

Nestle and Alibaba announced plans Sunday to upgrade their partnership.

World Environment Day 2016 will be celebrated this Sunday (5 June), bringing attention to the illegal trade in wildlife.