Myanmar security forces opened fire on protests against military rule on Wednesday, a day after neighbouring countries called for restraint and offered to help
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Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as UN pleads for funds and war’s end
Across the country, Yemenis are exhausting their coping mechanisms, and children are starving, amid the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Dutch parliament: China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide
Activists and UN rights experts say at least one million Muslims are being detained in camps in the remote western region of Xinjiang. The
UN chief demands immediate halt to Myanmar ‘repression’
UN to rich nations: Don’t undermine Covax vaccine program
Niger political veterans to face off in presidential vote
Niger is the world’s poorest nation, according to the UN’s benchmark of development of 189 countries, and is struggling with jihadist insurgencies that have
UN nuclear chief in Iran as it threatens watchdog’s cameras
UN rights body seeks release of Suu Kyi
Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist released from prison
Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, was detained in May 2018 and sentenced in December to nearly six years in prison on charges
ISIS could regain capacity to orchestrate attacks in 2021: UN official
“The threat posed by ISIS to international peace and security is on the rise again. It is crucial that Member States remain focused and
Iran, N Korea resumed missile collaboration in 2020
North Korea and Iran resumed cooperation on the development of long-range missiles in 2020, according to a UN report that also confirmed Pyongyang continues
UN head ‘strongly condemns’ detention of Myanmar leaders
UN rights boss calls on Myanmar military to release detainees
Iran hangs ethnic Baluch for ‘terror’, despite UN appeal
Dehghan was found to have been involved in the killing of two Revolutionary Guards’ members in 2015, as well as leading a raid aiming
‘India’s bid for permanent UN seat matter of discussion’
UN chief hopes tensions along India-China border could be dialled down
Amid a recent clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the border in Sikkim, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hopes that tensions that exist
Fauci lays out Joe Biden’s support for WHO
Fauci, speaking by videoconference from pre-dawn United States to WHO’s executive board, said the US will join the UN health agency’s efforts to bring
Antonio Guterres to seek 2nd five-year term as UN chief
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he will be seeking a second five-year term as chief of the world organisation. ​​President of
China says WHO Wuhan visit preparations ongoing
China confirmed Saturday that preparations were still ongoing for a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19, following a
WHO blames spiked Italy report on error, ‘overlooked’ rule
The World Health Organization denied Thursday that Italian officials pressured it to spike a report into Italy’s coronavirus response but said the UN agency
‘Good riddance,’ China says as Germany leaves UN
Germany’s UN envoy, during his last scheduled UN Security Council meeting, appealed to China to free two detained Canadians for Christmas, prompting China’s deputy
European Parliament asks China to allow UN fact-finding team to visit Xinjiang
The European Parliament (EP) on Friday passed a resolution on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region
Countries must declare ‘climate emergency’: UN chief
UN chief warns vaccine nationalism moving at full speed
The UN chief reiterated his call for vaccines to be treated as “a global public good,” available to everyone, everywhere on the planet, especially
UN chief says he’ll take Covid-19 vaccine
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that he intends to take the Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available and he will do so publicly,
UN food agency to receive Nobel prize in online event
Iran passes law to boost uranium enrichment
Iran’s Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt UN inspections of its nuclear sites and step
Word leaders to address special session of UN on Covid
World leaders, the top leadership of the UN and vaccine developers will address a two-day, special session of the UN General Assembly on Covid-19