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…
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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…