11 December 2013 – Voicing strong concern over widespread violence in Bangladesh that has left dozens of people dead since…
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10 December 2013 – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today called for an eleventh-hour stay of…
10 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed seasoned economist Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan as the new head of…
9 December 2013 – Two independent United Nations human rights experts today urged the Bangladeshi Government to halt the execution…
8 December 2013 – Afghan authorities registered an increased number of reported acts of violence against women and girls in…
8 December 2013 – One month since Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the…
An Indonesian prosecutor on Monday sought a 16-year jail term for a British woman who has admitted trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the country from China. Andrea Waldeck, aged in her early 40s, was arrested in late April at a hotel in the city…
A US warship that was forced to manoeuvre to avoid a collision with a Chinese naval vessel had “posed a threat”, state-run media said Monday, after Washington accused China of being the aggressor. The Global Times newspaper, which often takes a nationalistic…
A space module carrying China’s first lunar rover landed on the moon Saturday, state television said, the first soft landing on the moon in nearly four decades and a major step for Beijing’s ambitious space programme. Scientists burst into applause…
The once powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been executed for a string of alleged crimes. State news agency KCNA announced his death early on Friday, branding General Jang Song-Thaek a “traitor”. http://news.sky.com/story/1181627/…