At U.N., U.S., Russia accuse each other of no interest in Ukraine talks
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Russia accused each other on Tuesday of not being interested in Ukraine peace talks as calls grow at the…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Russia accused each other on Tuesday of not being interested in Ukraine peace talks as calls grow at the…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador’s prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the education and rights of women in Afghanistan a…
JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday demanded that a United Nations’ panel investigating its 2021 war with Palestinian militants be disbanded, condemning remarks made by one of its members as anti-Semitic.…
GENEVA – A United Nations human rights expert on Monday called on countries to take steps against Myanmar’s junta through economic sanctions and an arms embargo following the execution of…
By Emma Farge GENEVA – The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5…
(Removes extra words ‘in the past year’ in paragraph 7) By Francois Murphy VIENNA -Places including U.S. states that have legalized cannabis appear to have increased its regular use, while…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – There is a “real risk” of multiple famines this year, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday and urged ministers meeting on food security…
UNITED NATIONS – Two Afghan education ministers are no longer allowed to travel abroad for any peace and stability talks after the United Nations Security Council removed them from a…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday as European Council President Charles Michel addressed the 15-member…
(Reuters) – A United Nations commission has increased its projection for poverty in Latin America and Caribbean for 2022, citing economic disruptions caused by the conflict in Ukraine. Latin America…
By Emma Farge GENEVA – North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – The United States will again push for more U.N. sanctions on North Korea if it carries out a seventh nuclear test, despite opposition by…
KABUL – The United Nations rights envoy in Afghanistan said on Thursday the country faces “severe” human rights challenges and called on Taliban authorities to reverse growing restrictions on women…
TOKYO – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he supports Japan becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, NHK public television said on Monday. Calls have…
GENEVA – More than 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, citing new data about those escaping…
ROME – World food prices eased slightly in April after hitting a record high in March, but global food security remained a concern because of the difficult market conditions, U.N.…
By Max Hunder (Reuters) – Ukraine denied on Monday reaching an agreement with Russia on evacuating civilians from a steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol, and said the…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – The United States is pushing the U.N. Security Council to further sanction North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches by banning tobacco and…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – Human rights activist Nadia Murad launched global guidelines at the United Nations on Wednesday on how to safely and effectively collect evidence from survivors…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of…
ZURICH – The United Nations human rights office said on Sunday that 1,119 civilians had so far been killed and 1,790 wounded since Russia began its attack on Ukraine. Some…
By Francois Murphy VIENNA – The remaining members of the one shift of technical staff who had been on duty at Chernobyl’s radioactive waste facilities since Russian forces seized the…
By Emma Farge GENEVA – A U.N. expert told the world’s top rights body on Tuesday that she had received a preliminary invitation from Washington to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in…
MONTREAL -Any dual registration of foreign-owned aircraft leased by Russian carriers would be inconsistent with parts of a key agreement that sets out core principles for global aviation, the United…