New York, Dec 19 (JEN): Led by strong growth in Myanmar, opium poppy cultivation in the area known as the Golden Triangle rose for the seventh consecutive year, according to a report releas ...

New York, Dec 19 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Wednesday extended the mandates of judges at the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst atrocities committe ...

New York, Dec 19 (JEN): There are no shortages of ideas on how to reform the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the President of the General Assembly said Wednesday, adding that what i ...

New Delhi, Dec 18 (JEN) More than 40 years since its demand and several fasts by social activist Anna Hazare, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill after it was c ...

Washington, Dec 14 (JEN) The United Nations on Friday called on all parties in Ukraine to exercise restraint amid reports of the use of excessive force by police and violent acts by demonstr ...

Washington, Dec 14 (JEN) Describing an “active year”, the United Nations peacekeeping chief on Friday highlighted the progress made in key hotspots around the world, including th ...

Washington, Dec 14 (JEN) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing of long-awaited accords between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the M23 re ...

New York, Dec 13 (JEN): The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom Thursday condemned the killing of Juan Carlos Argeñal Medina, who was shot dead in his ho ...

New York, Dec 13 (JEN): Terrorism, trafficking in arms, drugs and people, and other transnational forms of organized crime are threatening security in Africa’s vast sub-Saharan Sahel ...