Category : International News

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...

People around the world are being urged by the UN Secretary-General to help end corruption and to come together for global fairness and equity. In...

US should respond to public demands for greater police accountability – Ban Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in...

In a briefing for reporters that was supposed to be about progress against Ebola, the top US general in Africa confirmed that ISIL, or the...

By Mike Corder, AP Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday upheld the conviction of a Congolese warlord who was sentenced to 14...