New York: COVID-19 has set back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undermining decades of development efforts, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agricul ...

Naypyidaw/JEN: A Myanmar town near the India border has witnessed a massive exodus as thousands of people have fled amid fierce fighting between the army and militia forces opposed to the ...

Algiers/JEN: After cutting all diplomatic ties with Morocco over alleged "provocative and hostile activities", Algeria's supreme security council on Wednesday decided to  ...

Kabul: The Taliban insurgents have requested to address the UN General Assembly and named their Doha-based spokesperson, Suhail Shaheen, as Afghanistan's UN ambassador.

New York: The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and migration agency IOM, called on Tuesday for an immediate investigation into the deaths of four people near the border between Poland and Belaru ...

Kabul:  Anwar ul Haq Mujahid, who was the leader of Osama bin Laden's former Black Guard and mastermind behind his escape from the U.S. bombing at Tora Bora in 2001, is currently ...

Khartoum/JEN: Sudan's transitional government on early Tuesday thwarted a coup d'état attempt and arrested most of the involved officers, Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported ...

Kohat: A cop, who was guarding a polio vaccination team, died as he was fired on by unknown men in Thall Behzadi area of Kohat city of Pakistan on Sunday, media reports said.

Kabul: The Taliban on Tuesday announced new members of its caretaker Cabinet to include "minorities" but failed to include any women despite an international outcry when they ha ...