The gentle lapping of water and the soft rocking as waves come in and out are two of the most relaxing sensations there are. However, sometimes you want something to do while you’re enjoying your dock, and we have a few ideas! Read on to discover the top three fun activities you can do on your dock the next time you take a trip to the lake.
Fishing
As long as there’s water and fish, it doesn’t much matter where you set up with your rod and reel. Why not take your tackle box down to the dock, grab a comfortable Adirondack chair, and lounge by the water with your reel in hand? This is even more fun if you can bring along your kids or a few buddies—there’s nothing better than enjoying the serenity of nature with the people you care about most.
Stargazing
Once night falls, there’s a whole universe waiting to be discovered above your dock. Assuming your dock is long enough to get you out from the tree line, you can lay out on the dock and look up in perfect silence at the stars. Bonus points if you take a sky chart with you and look for constellations!
If you have your kids with you, you can also spend some time inventing your own constellations—have them create pictures in their minds with the stars and name their new discoveries!
Bowfishing
You may think that bowfishing is similar to fishing, but these are completely different hobbies. Fishing requires patience, but bowfishing requires accuracy. Spend some time getting the hang of your bow before you head out on the dock—once you do, you’ll skewer fish more easily than Robin Hood splits arrows.
Now that you know the top three fun activities you can do on your dock, cast your line and hope you get a bite! Even if you don’t, remember to take a moment and simply enjoy the wonders of nature.
UN Peacekeeping played a major role in Cambodia’s recovery following years of internal conflict.
Today, Cambodia contributes to peacekeeping efforts with its mine action expertise, helping to save lives in places like South Sudan and Lebanon.
Published: 17th Apr 2025 12:00:18 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: DRC: Violence created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises - UNICEF | United Nations
Briefing by Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The significant escalation of conflict in the eastern region of the DRC has reached levels not seen in the last three decades. The intensifying violence has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, leaving millions of children at risk.
Since January, more than one million people – including an estimated 400,000 children – have been displaced by violence in the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. This new wave of displacement comes in addition to the more than 5 million people in the region who were already living in displacement camps … where crowded and unsanitary conditions make the spread of diseases like mpox, cholera and measles much more likely.
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Excellencies … the most defining, and horrifying, feature of this conflict is the rampant violence being committed against children and women.
Scores have been killed or injured. There has been a 100 per cent increase in verified grave violations in the first quarter of this year, as compared to the first quarter of 2024. These include indiscriminate attacks, large-scale recruitment and use of children, collective abductions of children, as well as widespread sexual violence.
The rate of sexual violence against children has reached shockingly high levels. Reports from child protection partners show that children make up more than 40 per cent of the nearly 10,000 cases of rape and sexual violence reported in January and February alone. UNICEF estimates that during the most intense phase of this year’s conflict in eastern DRC, a child was raped every half an hour.
Published: 17th Apr 2025 04:00:03 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: South Sudan: Deterioration in political and security situation - UNMISS Briefing | United Nations
Briefing by Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), on the situation in South Sudan.
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The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Nicholas Haysom, said, “there has been a sharp deterioration in the political and security situation,” in the country, “which threatens to unravel the peace gains made in recent years.”
Presenting the Report of the Secretary-General on South Sudan to the Security Council, Haysom said, “all our efforts are now focused on preventing a relapse into widespread conflict and refocusing attention on the implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement.”
He told the Council that there are reports “of further mobilisation, respectively, of the White Army and SSPDF in Upper Nile, allegedly including the forced recruitment of children into the respective ranks of the armed formations.”
The deployment of Ugandan foreign forces at the request of the South Sudanese government, Haysom pointed out, “has further stoked public anxiety.”
The UNMISS Chief said, “South Sudan faces one of the worst humanitarian outlooks since independence – driven by escalating subnational violence, the spillover from the Sudan conflict, deepening economic collapse, extreme weather and a sharp decline in international aid.”
He said, “round 9.3 million people – three quarters of the population – need assistance and 7.7 million are suffering
Published: 17th Apr 2025 02:30:22 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: Pandemic Agreement, Sudan & other topics - Daily Press Briefing | United Nations
Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Deputy Secretary-General
- Security Council
- Pandemic Agreement
- Sudan
- Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Iraq
- Global Economy
- Briefings tomorrow
- Financial Contribution
**Deputy Secretary-General
The Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed is in Hanoi, Viet Nam today, to participate in the Partnership for Growth Summit and to chair the annual retreat of UN Resident Coordinators from Asia and the Pacific.
In her remarks at the opening session of the Summit, Ms. Mohammed underlined the need to strengthen partnerships and to scale up investments in climate solutions as a key entry point to advance countries’ Sustainable Development Goals transitions.
Ms. Mohammed also met with the Minister of Agriculture and Environment Mr. Đỗ Đức Duy. They discussed Viet Nam’s transition to a low-carbon energy system and progress on its food system pathways.
On the margins of the Summit, she also met with Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
And at the Green One UN House in Hanoi, Ms. Mohammed met the UN Country Team to discuss how to further strengthen the UN’s impact in Viet Nam and to sustain momentum on the SDGs. She also met with youth.
** Security Council
This morning, the Security Council members met for a briefing on South Sudan. The Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Nicholas Haysom, told the Council members that the Revitalized Peace Agreement remains the only viable framework to break the cycle of violence in South Sudan.
He added that UNMISS is engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to broker a peaceful solution to the current crisis alongside many stakeholders, including the African Union and the Security Council itself.
For her part, the Director of Operations and Advocacy at OCHA, Edem Wosornu, focused on the rapidly escalating violence and its impact on men, women and children. She added that this year, 9.3 million South Sudanese – that’s three-quarters of the population – require some form of humanitarian assistance, adding that children make up half of this total.
For South Sudan, this year’s Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan requires $1.7 billion to support close to 5.4 million people. Their full remarks were shared with you.
The Security Council will reconvene at 3:00 pm this afternoon for a session on the Great Lakes region. The Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Huang Xia, as well as UNICEF's Executive Director, Catherine Russell, are scheduled to brief. We will share their remarks as soon as we get them.
**Pandemic Agreement
And we wanted to welcome the consensus on a draft pandemic agreement reached in Geneva after more than three years of intensive negotiations. Member States of the World Health Organization took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from pandemics, by forging the draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May. The proposal aims to strengthen global collaboration on prevention, preparedness and response to future pandemic threats.
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Published: 16th Apr 2025 07:49:52 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: Climate, Peace, and Security in the Great Lakes Region - Joint Security Council Media Stakeout
Joint media stakeout by the Security Council members that have joined the Joint Pledges on Climate, Peace and Security (Denmark, France, Greece, Guyana, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom) on Climate, Peace, and Security in the Great Lakes Region.
Published: 16th Apr 2025 07:38:08 By: United Nations
CNN Video: ‘Were you ready for this?’ Farmer asks GOP neighbors
CNN's Elle Reeve talks with supporters and opponents of President Trump in South Dakota. Here's what they think now, with tariffs looming. Elle Reeve’s full reporting from South Dakota can be found only on CNN. #CNN #news #southdakota #agriculture #trump
Published: 17th Apr 2025 03:42:24 By: CNN
CNN Video: New evidence suggests life on distant planet
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs of life beyond our solar system, detecting in an exoplanet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 03:09:42 By: CNN
CNN Video: This area of South Dakota voted for Trump by roughly 70%. Here's what they think now
President Donald Trump says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's ‘termination cannot come fast enough’ one day after the central bank chief delivered a stark warning about the effect of Trump’s sweeping tariffs on the economy. #CNN #News
Published: 17th Apr 2025 01:00:40 By: CNN
CNN Video: NYT: Trump waved off Israeli strike on Iran
CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the Trump administration is angling for a legal showdown in the Supreme Court over deportations. #CNN #News
Published: 17th Apr 2025 12:18:30 By: CNN
BBC News Video: US to hold talks on Ukraine with European allies | BBC News
US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and top diplomat Marco Rubio are set to hold talks with European counterparts in Paris on Thursday to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine's foreign minister and defence minister have arrived in the French capital to take part in the discussions.
The talks, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, form the highest level of transatlantic engagement about the war since February.
Meanwhile, as the city of Mariupol marks three years of occupation, a BBC Verify investigation has found that Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 12:59:18 By: BBC News
BBC News Video: Michelle Trachtenberg’s cause of death revealed by medical examiner. #GossipGirl #Buffy #BBCNews
As China and the US face off over tariffs, China is also facing another economic problem - an ageing population.
But, if the country’s retirees - with potentially decades of savings - buy more goods, Chinese companies won't have to rely as much on trade overseas.
To facilitate this, Beijing has introduced initiatives like “silver trains” - trains taking OAPs to tourist spots in the country, and encouraging them to spend there.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 12:00:20 By: BBC News
BBC News Video: Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet | BBC News
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.
K2-18b is two and a half times the size of Earth and is seven hundred trillion miles away from us.
This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
But the team and independent astronomers stress that more data is needed to confirm these results.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 11:00:32 By: BBC News
BBC News Video: White House ordered to halt mass deportations | BBC News
A US judge has ruled that there is probable cause to find the Trump administration in contempt of court after it violated an order against deporting migrants under an obscure wartime law.
Judge James Boasberg said the government had shown “wilful disregard” of his order to halt the departure of deportation flights carrying more than 200 people to El Salvador last month.
In a statement, the White House said it would contest the decision.
Judge Boasberg's decision to begin contempt proceedings escalates a clash between the White House and the judiciary over President Trump’s powers.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 10:00:03 By: BBC News
ODN Video: LIVE: President Donald Trump Welcomes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 09:48:02 By: On Demand News
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Russian President Vladimir Putin take part in a formal signing ceremony in Moscow. The leaders are expected to finalize important agreements covering energy, trade, and regional cooperation.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 01:59:35 By: On Demand News
ODN Video: US-China Trade War Escalates as Xi Jinping Tours Southeast Asia
Chinese President Xi Jinping is on a
mission to strengthen his relationship
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Cambodia today, following his state
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 01:41:03 By: On Demand News
ODN Video: LIVE: Qatari Emir Arrives in Moscow to Meet Putin
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani arrives in Moscow for a high-level meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders are expected to discuss key regional and international issues, including energy cooperation, economic ties, and global diplomacy. Stay tuned for live coverage of this important diplomatic visit.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 11:03:31 By: On Demand News
ODN Video: Chaos at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Town Hall as Protester Tasered
This was the moment protesters disrupted Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene as she spoke at the Acworth Community Center in her home state of Georgia on Tuesday evening.
Protesters began interrupting Greene minutes after the event started, prompting police to remove six people from the venue.
The controversial Republican used her speech to reinforce her support for US President Donald Trump’s policies.
Footage shared online shows police wrestling one man to the floor before he was tased by officers.
Authorities said three people were arrested.
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Published: 16th Apr 2025 11:42:31 By: On Demand News
CBC Video: What voters are telling candidates in Edmonton Manning
Candidates running for three parties in the Edmonton Manning riding, in the city's northeast, say residents are most often bringing up affordability and health care during conversations on their doorsteps.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 03:46:32 By: CBC News
CBC Video: Fact-checking the French federal leaders' debate
CBC's Jonathon Gatehouse fact-checked comments made by the main party leaders on immigration, housing and pipelines during the French federal leaders' debate on April 16. If there’s an election claim you want us to fact-check, you can email: ask@cbc.ca.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 03:34:18 By: CBC News
CBC Video: Election debate moderator Steve Paikin on what he's expecting, how he's preparing
Steve Paikin, TVO journalist and moderator for the English-language leaders' debate, says it takes a lot of research to prepare for the broadcast, but thinking on your feet is vital as well.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 03:08:19 By: CBC News
CBC Video: Green Party co-leader launches platform, takes questions after being disinvited from debates
Jonathan Pedneault, co-leader of the Green Party, is presenting the Greens' platform on Thursday, a day after his party was excluded from both the French-language and English debates.
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 02:41:09 By: CBC News
CBC Video: What's your debate highlight? We take your calls | Cross Country Checkup
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Published: 17th Apr 2025 02:40:01 By: CBC News
International Video: US economy: Trump pauses China tech tariffs
Two weeks of escalation, bravado, noise, and then climbdowns and u-turns.
Having started a global trade war, it was the US president who blinked first.
So we find ourselves now with a global 10% tariff on goods imported to America. And then one massive exception: China. Over this weekend more confusion. It emerged that laptops and other electronics wouldn't be hit by tariffs.
But today the US commerce secretary has announced those goods will face their own tariff regime.
A woman has unknowingly given birth to a stranger’s baby after an IVF mix up in Australia.
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Butchers in Bolivia have thrown cow horns at police in a protest against inflation which is making it difficult for families to afford meat.
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At least 100 people have died since Wednesday after heavy rain has caused destruction across parts of India and Nepal.
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Donald Trump wants the US dollar to be worth less - and he’s using tariffs to make it happen
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