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…