New York, Nov 22 (JEN) The next phase in reconstruction efforts for war-ravaged Gaza is slated to begin as early as next week following an updated “understanding” between Israeli and Pal ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he was shocked by the recent deadly atta ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN):lmost 1,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since a tenuous ceasefire was established there in early September amid efforts to end the violence between armed rebel ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned Tuesday's “despicable terrorist attack” in a synagogue in Jerusalem, resulting in the murder of four in ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): Insecurity is on the march again in the countries of Africa’s Sahel belt, where extremists have displaced 1.5 million people in Nigeria and the threat of Ebola is e ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): The head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced Wednesday that all parties to the conflict in Benghazi have agreed to an unconditional huma ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): Somalia’s positive strides do not mean “plain sailing”, the United Nations political chief stressed Wednesday, telling a high-level forum in Copenhagen that the ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN):Voicing great concern over serious human rights abuses that have occurred in Yemen in recent months, the United Nations human rights office on Tuesday issued a strong ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN): The atrocious crimes perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) risk plunging Iraq into catastrophe as the country reels from bitter sectarian ten ...