United Nations: Peace and cooperation with Afghanistan will enable Pakistan to fully defeat the common threat from violent groups, Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN has...
Baghdad: At least 15 people were killed and 47 others injured on Thursday in attacks by a suicide bomber and a roadside bomb in the Iraqi...
By Arul Louis United Nations: Mogens Lykketoft, who took over Tuesday as the president of the General Assembly, pledged to continue the Security Council reform efforts carried...
United Nations: General Assembly President Sam Kahamba Kutesa, who steered the body past its first major hurdle in expanding the UN Security Council, has warned countries opposing...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Facebook headquarters at California, US, later this month, the social networking site’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced...
United Nations: The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve raising Palestinian flag at UN headquarters. The resolution “decides that the flags of non-member observer states at...
United Nations: The global under-five mortality has fallen by 53 percent, from 91 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 43 in 2015, said a UNICEF...
United Nations: Calling on developed countries to take responsibility for protecting the global environment, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has cited the example of Prime Minister Narendra...
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has regretted the sentencing of three Al-Jazeera journalists by an Egyptian court, the organisation said in a statement on Sunday. Egypt’s...
Mexico City: Gender equality is a goal that will take another 80 years to achieve and the youth are the driving force behind the change, a United...