8 January 2014 – Warning that the critical humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Anbar province is likely to worsen as fighting…
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7 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the killing of more than 20 people,…
7 January 2014 – The process of removing Syria’s most critical chemical weapons material outside of the country for destruction…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed today that it is seeking details from Australian authorities…
7 January 2014 – The United Nations and its humanitarian partners today appealed for $1 billion to save millions of…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today said it hopes that Myanmar’s decision to commute all…
6 January 2014 – The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of…
10 January 2014 – United Nations independent human rights experts today urged the Spanish Government to reconsider its decision to…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed concern about a decision by the Malaysian Ministry…
6 January 2014 – Preparations for the long-sought international conference on Syria are moving ahead, with the United Nations reaching…
10 January 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to increase its aid to…
8 January 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the General Assembly President John Ashe, today urged the bloc…
Canada said Friday new rail cars used to transport fuel would be reinforced in order to avoid a repeat of the devastating explosion in Quebec last year that left 47 people dead. Large swathes of the picturesque town of Lac-Megantic were reduced to rubble…
9 January 2014 – Timor-Leste, Asia-Pacific’s youngest country, today became the region’s first to launch a national campaign under the…
Nigeria and Britain on Thursday signed a “compulsory prisoner transfer” agreement, allowing their nationals jailed in the other country to serve the rest of their time behind bars back home. The two countries said the scheme meant Nigerians who commit…
Dieudonne, the controversial French comic who has been branded an anti-Semitic “pedlar of hate” by the government, on Thursday won the first round of a legal battle to be allowed to start a nationwide tour. A judge in Nantes ordered local authorities…
The European Commission cleared on Thursday a merger between France’s Publicis and US peer Omnicom which will create the world’s biggest advertising company. The nature of the market, “the presence of other large competitors, the relatively low barriers…
Afghanistan on Thursday said it would release scores of suspected Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men are “dangerous individuals” who could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw. A meeting chaired by Afghan President…
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits fell last week, the government said on Thursday in a report suggesting improvement in the labor market. Initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, fell by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted…
Germany said Thursday it had accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria’s chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30. The foreign and defence ministries said in a joint statement that the move was intended…