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December 04, 2019

UN urges Tanzania: Stop barring cases at human rights court

The United Nations human rights office is urging Tanzania to reconsider its decision barring individuals and non-governmental ...

December 04, 2019

Israel to UN: Uprooted Jews should be seen as refugees

Israel wants the United Nations to recognize as refugees hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab and Muslim countries in ...

December 03, 2019

AP Interview: New IAEA head seeking answers from Iran

The United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency is still waiting for information from Iran on the discovery of uranium particles ...

December 03, 2019

UN says half of Zimbabwe’s people face severe hunger

About half of Zimbabwe’s population faces severe hunger amid a devastating drought and economic collapse, the United Nations ...

December 03, 2019

Amnesty says at least 208 killed in Iran protests, crackdown

At least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by ...

December 02, 2019

The Latest: Poland to focus on clean energy

The Latest on the COP25 climate summit in Madrid (all times local): 6:10 p.m. The head of Poland’s new Climate Ministry has ...

December 02, 2019

Argentina’s Grossi cleared to take helm at UN nuclear agency

Argentine diplomat Rafael Mariano Grossi is set to take the helm at the U.N. nuclear watchdog this week after being confirmed ...

December 02, 2019

UN chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the world’s efforts to stop climate change have been “utterly ...

November 30, 2019

Hong Kong elders, youths vow to keep up pro-democracy fight

Hundreds of silver-haired activists joined young Hong Kong protesters for a unity rally Saturday, vowing that their ...

November 28, 2019

Rebel attacks in eastern Congo kill several Ebola responders

Rebels killed four Ebola response workers in an overnight ambush in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization said ...

November 28, 2019

East Africa struggles with heavy rains, with more to come

Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations said ...

November 28, 2019

UN expert: Zimbabwe hunger ‘shocking’ for country not at war

Zimbabwe is on the brink of man-made starvation and the number of people needing help is “shocking” for a country not in ...

November 27, 2019

UN: South Sudan recruits new force, contrary to peace deal

A new report says South Sudan’s National Security Service has recruited a force of 10,000 fighters in President Salva Kiir’s ...

November 27, 2019

Amnesty: Egypt uses prosecution branch to crush dissent

Egypt’s government is using a secretive judicial agency designed to fight terrorism to detain peaceful protesters, ...

November 27, 2019

New rebel attack in Congo kills 19 people

Nineteen people have died in the latest rebel attack near the city of Beni, where outraged residents this week stormed a ...

November 27, 2019

Yazidi still hears brothers before IS kills them in Iraq

A survivor of the mass slaughter of the Yazidi minority in Iraq five years ago told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that ...

November 26, 2019

Ebola responders on ‘lockdown’ after Congo city’s unrest

Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a United Nations base to ...

November 26, 2019

UN: ‘Quick wins’ needed to keep climate goals within reach

Countries need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they’ve ...

November 26, 2019

Red Cross reports new outbreak of dengue fever in Yemen

The International Committee of the Red Cross reported a new outbreak of dengue fever in war-torn Yemen on Monday, with ...