Category : International News

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...

Reuters/Reuters – Al Jazeera journalists (L-R) Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed stand behind bars at a court in Cairo June 1, 2014. REUTERS/Asmaa...

    By Ben Ariel Palestinian Authority says Nigeria’s abstention during a UN vote on Palestinian statehood as a “big disappointment”. The Palestinian Authority’s (PA)...

Reuters / Stefan Wermuth Al-Qaeda has issued the latest edition of its online magazine, encouraging Islamic jihadists to carry out lone wolf attacks on major...

t has been ten years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean killing more than 200,000 people and devastating coastline communities from Indonesia...

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As Syria’s war rages on into its fifth year, the needs for food, shelter and medicine are astronomical, several United Nations agencies said today as...

  UN chief Ban Ki-moon applauded a global climate deal signed in Lima on Sunday and urged countries to commit to tough negotiations taking place...

  The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has destroyed a deadly assortment of weapons confiscated from internally displaced persons (IDPs) living at its...