Category : International News

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Valerie Amos, briefs journalists on her visit to South Sudan. UN Photo/Isaac GideonContinued conflict in South Sudan risks...

By Haitham el-Tabei (AFP)   Australian Peter Greste freed and a Canadian colleague close to release, the other Al-Jazeera journalist arrested in Cairo faces languishing...

French President François Hollande called on the international community on Thursday to fulfil its “duty” to take action against Islamist extremists in Africa, saying that...

By Maria Khan Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eyes possible return to politics and launches his official website and Instagram account.Getty Images In a move...

Participants at the Libya dialogue, Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 27 January 2015. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré Participants in the United Nations-facilitated Libyan political dialogue in...

The international community has not yet found the antidote to the poison that led to genocide 70 years ago, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented...

Wide view of the Security Council Chamber. UN Photo/Loey Felipe (file) The United Nations Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist...

  Briefing the Security Council on recent developments in Ukraine, Jeffrey Feltman, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, called today for revival of the...

A new round of talks between rival Libyan factions will take place in Geneva on Monday, the United Nations said, even as gunmen kidnapped the...

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird raised Fahmy’s case with his Egyptian counterpart on recent visit Mohamed Fahmy and two colleagues were arrested on Dec. 29,...

A UNHCR staff member asks a displaced Ukrainian man about the situation in his native Donetsk region, which has been heavily affected by the conflict....

The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, Jan. 19: Maybe it’s the new year – or, more likely, a sense of responsibility...

Street scene in Sana’a, capital of Yemen. Photo: UNDP Yemen United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his grave concern today about the deteriorating situation in...

  The United States condemned as “tragic irony” the International Criminal Court’s decision to open a preliminary probe into possible war crimes committed by Israeli...

Palestinian request to join International Criminal Court “accepted” NEW YORK (United Nations) – The Palestinians’ application for membership to the International Criminal Court (ICC) has...

Ottawa’s top diplomat says he is close to reaching a deal with Egypt on deporting to Canada one of three imprisoned Al-Jazeera journalists. Canadian foreign...

A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia’s U.S.-trained elite forces in Mogadishu, killing at least four people, a Somali...