Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday applauded a court decision that Japan must halt its annual Antarctic whale hunt, but raised fears it could sidestep the order and begin whaling again under a new “scientific” guise. The United Nations’ Hague-based…
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29 March 2014 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned today’s attack on the Kabul headquarters of…
28 March 2014 – Voicing concern about attacks this week on United Nations and non-governmental organization premises in Sittwe in…
28 March 2014 – The United Nations peacekeeping chief today expressed his solidarity with the Afghan people on the eve…
27 March 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council today voted to open an international inquiry into alleged war…
27 March 2014 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today certified as polio-free 11 countries in Asia that…
The two Koreas traded live fire into the sea across their disputed maritime border on Monday, after Seoul said a North Korean military exercise dropped shells into South Korean waters. “Some of the shells fired by North Korea dropped in our area and…
A Tibetan nun set herself on fire in southwestern China at the weekend, a campaign group and a report said, in the latest apparent act of protest against Chinese rule. The self-immolation by the nun, whose name and age were not immediately available…
China has laid out the charges against four suspects captured after a brutal railway station attack that killed 29 people and injured 143 earlier this month, officials said. Eight members of what Beijing labelled a “terrorist gang” carried out the stabbing…
One of the world’s longest railways — a “modern-day silk road” — covers some 11,000 kilometres (24,000 miles) en route from the Chinese megacity of Chongqing to Duisburg, a key commercial hub in western Germany. On Saturday, as part of his landmark…
Joyous shouts of “Allahu akbar” echoed across the headquarters of the Philippines’ biggest Muslim rebel group as a pact to end four decades of bloodshed was signed, but there were also fears war clouds had yet to pass. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front…
27 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is increasingly concerned about the successive reports of new launches of ballistic missiles…
26 March 2014 – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the Vietnamese Government to…
26 March 2014 – Stressing the need to ensure justice and accountability, the United Nations human rights chief today called…
26 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the timely holding of the parliamentary election in the Maldives, which…
Thai satellite images have shown 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing Malaysian airliner, an official said Thursday. The objects, ranging from two to 15 metres (6.5 to 50 feet) in size, were scattered over…
Thunderstorms and gale-force winds grounded the international air search for wreckage from Flight MH370 on Thursday, frustrating the luckless effort yet again just as new satellite images of floating objects sparked hopes of a breakthrough. It marked…
Fresh satellite images taken during the search for a missing passenger jet show 122 “potential objects” in one area of the Indian Ocean, Malaysia said Wednesday. The images from Airbus Defence and Space in France show the objects in a 400-square-kilometre…
25 March 2014 – The United Nations has condemned today’s deadly attack on an office of the Afghan Independent Election…
24 March 2014 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today paid tribute to…