Un News
|
By AFP
New York -
The United States has asked United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to come up with an exit strategy for the UN's mission in Kosovo after a nearly two-decade presence there.
|
|
By AFP
Nicosia -
The United Nations will a host a meeting between rival Cypriot leaders next Friday to try to move closer to a relaunch of reunification talks that collapsed 15 months ago.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Four prominent human rights and press freedom groups on Thursday urged Turkey to request a United Nations investigation into the possible murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to prevent a "whitewash" of the alleged crime.
|
|
By AFP
Damascus -
The UN said Wednesday it was organising a joint aid convoy with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in the desert near the Jordanian border.
|
|
By AFP
Beirut -
Staffan de Mistura announced Wednesday he will resign as UN envoy to Syria, becoming the third person to quit the post after years of fruitless efforts to end the country's war.
|
|
By AFP
Beirut -
Staffan de Mistura announced Wednesday he will resign as UN envoy to Syria, becoming the third person to quit the post after years of fruitless efforts to end the country's war.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key post as UN efforts to end the seven-year war show no sign of a breakthrough.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The United States and eight other countries on Tuesday requested a UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar to hear from a UN fact-finding mission that has accused the country's military of atrocities against Muslim Rohingyas.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The Palestinians won backing Tuesday to lead the biggest bloc of developing countries at the United Nations, raising their profile at the world body despite opposition from the United States.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Cuban diplomats shouted slogans and noisily pounded tables at the United Nations on Tuesday, disrupting a meeting organized by the United States on the plight of Cuban political prisoners.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
A group of UN diplomats disrupted a US-organized meeting on the plight of Cuban political prisoners at the United Nations on Tuesday, shouting down a US diplomat who demanded that security guards remove them from the hall.
|
|
By AFP
Geneva -
Some 12 million Yemenis could soon be on the brink of famine if the security and economic situation in the war-ravaged country does not improve, the UN warned Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says prospects for a Cyprus settlement remain alive, a year after a failed peace effort, and has instructed an envoy to press on with efforts to kick-start talks.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Cuba has asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to cancel plans by the United States to launch a campaign at the United Nations on the plight of Cuban political prisoners.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The United Nations, Israel and Syria reached an agreement to reopen the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights on Monday, the United States announced Friday, urging the two Middle East countries to facilitate the work of peacekeepers in the zone.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Bahrain, Cameroon and the Philippines were among a number of nations controversially elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, sparking sharp criticism from rights groups and the United States.
|
|
By AFP
Geneva -
The number of climate-related disasters around the world is growing rapidly, humanitarians warned Friday, urging more efforts to prepare and build resilience to looming changes on a warming planet.
|
|
By AFP
Palu -
Thousands of survivors of a devastating quake-tsunami prayed Friday by the shores of disaster-struck Palu, as the UN chief praised their "resilience" during a tour of the devastated Indonesian city.The 7.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The UN Security Council on Thursday approved a final extension of its peacekeeping mission in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan -- unless the two sides make progress on border demarcation and other benchmarks.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
UN officials have expressed their "concern" to Saudi Arabia over the unexplained disappearance in Turkey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Beni -
"I am always anticipating an attack," says South African soldier Maijeke of how it feels to be in DR Congo's "triangle of death", where he is part of a UN peacekeeping force helping the Congolese army hunt down a militia group that is slaughtering civi...
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Ivanka Trump on Tuesday tamped down the suggestion her father could be poised to tap her as UN envoy, after President Donald Trump said she would make a "dynamite" replacement -- were it not for nepotism concerns.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
US President Donald Trump said he has yet to read a UN report warning of global warming-caused chaos unless drastic action is taken and added that he is skeptical.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a message of "deep appreciation" for US envoy Nikki Haley on Tuesday after she announced she was stepping down from the post at the end of the year.
|
|
By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations after she resigned on Tuesday, following a tenure in which she asserted Washington's support for Israel.
|
|
By AFP
Lyon -
Poland should withdraw from a UN pact on migration that will be formally adopted in Morocco in December, the country's interior minister said on Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Nikki Haley abruptly resigned Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump's often shifting national security team.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Nikki Haley, who has resigned as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, was a virtual unknown on the national and international stage when she joined the cabinet.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Nikki Haley resigned Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump's national security team.
|
|
By AFP
Geneva -
The United Nations called Tuesday for a "transparent investigation" into the death of Venezuelan opposition member Fernando Alban after Caracas said he killed himself in custody.
|
apis-379612 apis-379552 apis-379495 apis-379434 apis-379421 apis-379422 apis-379394 apis-379350 apis-379327 apis-379318 apis-379315 apis-379293 apis-379253 apis-379241 apis-379040 apis-379017 apis-378999 apis-378977 apis-378945 apis-378920 apis-378765 apis-378736 apis-378735 apis-378724 apis-378718 apis-378707 apis-378705 apis-378702 apis-378700 apis-378681
Un Image
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN
A UN armoured vehicle in the Congo. IRIN Humanitarian News Agency UN
The exhibit showcases the South African, US, UN and South Korean flags.
The United Nations Security Council Chamber in New York www.en.wikipedia.org
Anti-India sentiments have reached a feverish pitch in Kashmir Valley. Dilnaz Boga
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) speaks to journalists in Vienna, Austria Rick Bajornas / UN Photo
Maude Barlow's attack comes a week after the UN
declared water a fundamental human right ©IISD
The uses of chlorine, from a deadly gas to widespread demand in industry , AFP Photo/File
Tai Ji Men dizi interviewed by Geneva media to express concerns for human rights development in Taiwan.
this is about effects of global warming on agriculture with picture( cited). Asamoah Francis
Psy teaches Ban Ki-Moon the Gangnam style moves. Video screen capture
meme of PM Netanyahu at UN Yuval Drier Shilo
The Hall of Fame: The Least We Forget UN Peacekeepers Killed round the Globe
Members of the P4G group launched on September 20, 2017. UN/SDG/Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Reportes question international expert panel at UN conference on climate change, March 31, 2014. Screenshot from live press conference
The exhibit showcases the South African, US, UN and South Korean flags.
Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro United Nations Development Programme
|
|
