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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. The...

Oil giant Saudi Arabia is seeking to block adoption of a key UN climate change report unless a passage highlighting the inadequacy of national carbon-cutting pledges is removed or altered, multiple sources told AFP. Already in...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the US to ease sanctions it re-imposed on Iran after pulling out a nuclear deal last year. Siding with Tehran, it said exports of “humanitarian” goods, such as...

The international community must increase investments in the invention and application of new tools and treatments, such as vaccines, diagnostics and drugs to successfully fight tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest communicable disease. BRAC chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan...

A UN expert on the rights situation in Cambodia decried Thursday that laws were being used to rein in dissent and were creating a “climate of fear” in the country. UN Special Rapporteur for Cambodia Rhona...

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland postponed her country’s 2018 address to the United Nations General Assembly so she could focus on ongoing trade talks with the United States, the government said on Saturday. For the past...

The United Nations Human Rights Council voted to extend an international probe of alleged war crimes committed in Yemen despite strong opposition from Saudi Arabia and several of its allies. Nations voted 21 to 8, with...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called the UN to play an effective role in making the digital world safer and continue its work on norm setting for information security. “UN can play a critical role in...

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has urged the world leaders to settle all international disputes and fight emerging global challenges like terrorism. “To ensure a peaceful world in future the world leaders must be commited...

New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition...