19 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the decision taken on Saturday by the opposition National Coalition of…
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17 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights chief today strongly condemned the repeated obstruction of aid convoys trying…
16 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights chief today warned armed opposition groups in Syria that executions and…
16 January 2014 – The United Nations and Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria regrets the decision of one…
16 January 2014 – The United Nations today launched the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with senior…
A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul,…
Two Britons were among the 21 people killed in a Taliban attack on a popular restaurant in Kabul, the Foreign Office in London said on Saturday. “We can confirm the deaths of two British nationals in Afghanistan on the 17th of January,” a spokeswoman…
Iran denounced Friday as “one sided” a text released by the United States summarising the implementation of the nuclear deal Tehran struck with world powers. “The White House statement is a unilateral and one-sided interpretation of the unofficial agreements…
JERUSALEM — Spoiled by sunshine for about 520 days a year, Jerusalemites are strangely phobic about cloudy weather, as if a grey day could infect them with Nordic melancholy. Sunday was one such day: the streets empty, the air quiet and chill. So…
A Pakistani schoolboy who sacrificed his own life to save hundreds of his classmates by tackling a suicide bomber will have his school and a stadium named after him, officials said Monday. Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-year-old from the mainly Shiite Ibrahimzai…