United Nations
UN says Russia, Turkey ''hold key'' to averting Idlib bloodbath
2018-09-05 07:34 UN says Russia, Turkey ''hold key'' to averting Idlib bloodbath
UN brokers ceasefire to end clashes in Libya's Tripoli
A ceasefire has been signed between armed factions fighting over the Libyan capital, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after more than a week of violence inside Tripoli.
Palestinians condemn US aid cut for UN refugee agency
The US decision to end its decades of funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees and their descendants is "an attack on the rights of the Palestinian people,"…
US halts funding to UN agency for Palestinian refugees
The United States is ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, the State Department announced Friday, a week after slashing bilateral…
US ends funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees
"It's going to encourage violence" - Offer Bronchtein, President of International Center for Peace in the Middle East.
UN calls on China to free detained Uighurs
United Nations' human rights experts voiced alarm on Thursday over alleged Chinese political re-education camps for Muslim Uighurs and called for the immediate release of those…
US calls UN's war crimes report on Yemen 'concerning'
A Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen on Wednesday dismissed as inaccurate a report by United Nations investigators that highlighted possible war crimes by all sides in the…
Focus
40 years and counting: The UN's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon
UNIFIL – the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon – has been operating in south Lebanon for the past 40 years. First set up in 1978 to monitor a ceasefire between Israel and…
Former UN chief Kofi Annan was ‘a guiding force for good’
Former UN secretary general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died Saturday in Switzerland at the age of 80 after a short illness. His calm dignity and moral rectitude…
Former UN chief, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan dies at 80
Former UN secretary general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died Saturday in Switzerland at the age of 80.
