New York, Dec 31(JEN) Falling short of the required number of positive votes and faced with a veto from one of its permanent members, the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday failed to ...

New York, Dec 31 (JEN) Strife-torn Central African Republic is showing signs of moving towards broad national dialogue – a direction prescribed by the Security Council as critical to ...

New York, Dec 31 (JEN)The United Nations has said on Tuesday that a strong response by donors to its urgent appeal for funding means that it can resume providing full food rations to refugee ...

New York, Dec 30 (JEN) The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Derek Plumbly, met in Beirut on Monday with Prime Minister Tamam Salam to discuss the grave security challenges fa ...

New York, Dec 30 (JEN): A barge carrying a shipment of food destined for thousands of people in South Sudan has crossed over from neighbouring Sudan, reopening a long-closed river corridor a ...

New York, Dec 30 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a proposal by the Government of the Republic of Korea to kick-start a high-level dialogue with the Democratic ...

New York, Dec 24 (JEN) The United Nations and its international partners on Tuesday welcomed the designation of Florence Guillaume as Haiti’s interim Prime Minister.

New York, Dec 24 (JEN) International support is now needed to investigate the enforced disappearance of leading Laotian human rights defender Sombath Somphone, who was last seen in December ...

New York, Dec 24 (JEN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday commended the Tunisian people on the successful holding of the second round of presidential elections on 21 December and cong ...