10 April 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep sadness at the death of Norman Girvan of Jamaica,…
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The United Nations ripped the United States on Friday for denying Mexican death row inmates access to their homeland’s diplomats. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, condemned Wednesday’s execution of Mexican citizen…
7 April 2014 – The United Nations independent expert on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, expressed concern today…
7 April 2014 – Voicing concern that the Philippines’ post-typhoon reconstruction and recovery efforts could be undermined by its heavy…
7 April 2014 – United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the Afghan people for Saturday’s historic presidential and provincial…
7 April 2014 – An independent United Nations expert today sounded the alarm on the deteriorating human rights situation in…
5 April 2014 – As voters across Afghanistan braved inclement weather and security threats to cast their ballots in Saturday’s…
4 April 2014 – The United Nations expert on religious freedom called today on the Kazakhstan Government to halt the…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday he was “very confident that signals detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were from the aircraft’s blackbox. “We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very…
A son of fugitive Mexican cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and is cooperating with the American government, US authorities revealed. Arrested in Mexico in 2009 and extradited to the United…
With the world’s biggest military, China far outnumbers rival Japan in manpower, ships, aircraft and defence spending, but analysts say underlying weaknesses leave it still wary of a fight. The two Asian powers are embroiled in simmering territorial…
10 April 2014 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced alarm at the denial of…
10 April 2014 – Speaking out strongly against yesterdays deadly car bomb attacks on a busy shopping street in the…
9 April 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said today it managed…
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned his Russian counterpart Thursday of more sanctions if Moscow “continues to escalate” the crisis in Ukraine. Lew also expressed to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov concerns about reports that Moscow was discussing…
Dutch rider Wouter Poels of the Omega Pharma-QuickStep team won the fourth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday as Alberto Contador maintained his overall lead. However, Spanish star Contador, of the Tinkoff-Saxo team, saw his compatriot…
The outlook for the crisis-battered eurozone brightened Thursday as Germany’s leading economic think tanks raised their growth forecast for Europe’s top economy this year and next year. Greece, one of the hardest-hit euro members, also returned to the…
A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body in more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey, he told AFP Thursday, using a technique known as “bee bearding.” She Ping, a 34-year-old honey merchant from the southwestern…
9 April 2014 – The United Nations expert body monitoring civil and political rights found today that Lithuania violated the…
8 April 2014 – On International Roma Day, the United Nations independent expert on minority issues is calling on all…