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Canada postpones U.N. address to focus on NAFTA
Sep 30, 2018Canadian 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... -
UN rights council renews Yemen war crimes probe
Sep 29, 2018The 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... -
PM Sheikh Hasina stresses UN role for global cyber security
Sep 25, 2018Prime 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... -
Settle all int’l disputes, fight terrorism, Sheikh Hasina urges global leaders
Sep 25, 2018Prime 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... -
Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says
Sep 12, 2018New 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... -
30,000 flee in Syria as UN fears century’s ‘worst’ crisis
Sep 11, 2018Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century’s “worst humanitarian catastrophe”. Idlib province and adjacent rural areas... -
Afghanistan promotes regional cooperation on combating human trafficking
Sep 7, 2018The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has co-organized a second regional forum bringing together non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to discuss cross-border cooperation to combat human trafficking in Central and South Asia.... -
UN kicks off talks on high seas treaty
Sep 6, 2018UN member states on Tuesday kicked off two years of negotiations toward a treaty that would finally regulate the high seas, which contain vast troves of valuable plant and animal DNA. In the morning, two small... -
UN urges Putin, Erdogan to talk to avert Idlib ‘bloodbath’
Sep 5, 2018The UN’s Syria peace envoy called Tuesday on the Russian and Turkish presidents to urgently speak to each other to help avert a “bloodbath” in rebel-held Idlib, as a military offensive appears imminent. Staffan de Mistura... -
UN in Myanmar calls for release of jailed Reuters journalists
Sep 4, 2018Two Reuters reporters jailed Monday by a Yangon court for seven years for breaching a draconian state secrets law should be released, the UN’s office in Myanmar said. “Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo should be...
