Tag: United Nations

Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month? That's the subject of heated ...

US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more than $300 million (270 million euros) to ...

North Korea's latest missile launch showed that the county's military is able to operate weapons from anywhere in the country, ...

Almost 400,000 children risk dying of hunger in DR Congo's troubled Kasai region where months of violence has driven over ...

The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the "shock" from planned deep budget cuts in ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia will be the next director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He will be ...

A 14-year-old boy has been detained in a Thai army prison under a draconian and increasingly wielded royal defamation law, ...

When human rights lawyer Li Heping returned to his home in Beijing after a two-year incarceration, his wife did not ...

Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up ...

An extension would reassure markets and also likely bring in additional IMF funds Ghana's government will ask the International Monetary ...

As news broke that India's army had commended a senior officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep and ...

India has announced that it has fired mortars at Pakistani army posts across their disputed border in Kashmir, a rare ...

China's UN ambassador said Tuesday that there was "no reason" to refuse dialogue with North Korea despite a series of ...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Tuesday called for an immediate halt to the renewed sectarian bloodshed in the ...

The United Nations raised questions Tuesday about the Democratic Republic of Congo's probe of the murder of two UN experts ...

Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom was elected as the new head of the powerful World Health Organization on Tuesday, vowing to shake ...

The first African to head the World Health Organization, Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom, says he aims to replicate his success in ...

Migrants rescued off the coast of Libya have described discovering a shipwrecked dinghy at sea, saying dozens of people including ...

Two fallen peacekeepers from Ghana will be honoured at the United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday, 24 May, to mark the ...

The United Nations is working to obtain security assurances needed to dispatch an international team of experts to the site ...