India on Saturday said a bitter row over the US arrest and strip-search of an Indian consulate official had triggered a “mini-crisis” in bilateral relations and much more must be done to repair ties. Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid’s remarks…
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10 January 2014 – Strongly deploring recent clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency today warned that Israel could be breaking international law by limiting…
9 January 2014 – With the humanitarian situation in war-torn Syria “getting more difficult every day”, the head of the…
8 January 2014 – Despite a delay in eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons material, the United Nations Security Council expects that…
8 January 2014 – Warning that the critical humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Anbar province is likely to worsen as fighting…
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…
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 refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed today that it is seeking details from Australian authorities…
6 January 2014 – The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today said it hopes that Myanmar’s decision to commute all…
10 January 2014 – United Nations independent human rights experts today urged the Spanish Government to reconsider its decision to…
6 January 2014 – Preparations for the long-sought international conference on Syria are moving ahead, with the United Nations reaching…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed concern about a decision by the Malaysian Ministry…
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…