Sep 03, 2018, at 12:24 pm
Naypyidaw, Sep 3 (IBNS): Two Reuters journalists, who covered the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, were found guilty of defying state secrets act and handed a seven-year-jail-term, by a country court.
UN chief urges calm as violence erupts in Libyan capital
Sep 03, 2018, at 09:21 am
New York, Sept 3 (IBNS): Condemning the escalation of violence in and around the Libyan capital, Tripoli, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on all parties to immediately cease hostilities and grant humanitarian relief to those in need.
Brazil: Massive fire destroys National Museum
Sep 03, 2018, at 09:10 am
Rio de Janeiro, Sept 3 (IBNS): A fire broke out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro which left the 200-year-old structure destroyed, media reports said on Monday.
Mauritania: UN chief urges peaceful, credible elections
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:28 pm
New York, Sept 2 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on all parties in Mauritania to ensure peaceful and credible elections as the country holds legislative, regional and municipal polls on Saturday.
UN urges countries to step up assistance for Palestine refugees
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:23 pm
New York, Sept 2 (IBNS): The United Nations said it regrets the decision of the United States to stop funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and called on other countries to help fill the remaining financial gap.
Somalia: Blast in Mogadishu kills 3
Sep 02, 2018, at 04:19 pm
Mogadishu, Sept 2 (IBNS): At least three people were killed and 14 others were injured when a suicide bomber attacked a government office here on Sunday, media reports said.
Nicaragua banishes UN human rights team for critical report
Sep 01, 2018, at 01:22 pm
Managua, Sept 1 (IBNS): The Nicaraguan government has ordered a team of United nations human rights to leave the country, after the latter submitted a report critical of President Daniel Ortega's administration.
Brazil's top electoral court bars ex-President Lula from running as a presidential candidate
Sep 01, 2018, at 11:18 am
Brasilia, Sept 1 (IBNS): A top electoral court in Brazil has disallowed tainted former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from contesting in the upcoming election.
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:34 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Though 2017 saw a sharp decline in casualties as a result of the use of cluster munitions compared to the previous year, two conflicts – in Syria and Yemen – accounted for the vast majority of the victims, a new United Nations-backed civil society report has found.
Development gains unsustainable without cyber-diplomacy, UN official says
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:27 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Hacking, child sexual exploitation and other cybercrimes could keep countries from reaching their development goals, warns a United Nations official who is urging Governments and private sectors to rethink how they work together.
Food, security and peace desperately needed in Mali – UN relief chief
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:24 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): A senior United Nations relief official has called for greater international attention to the plight of millions in Africa’s Mali, where worsening intercommunal violence and armed group attacks are complicating an already complex humanitarian emergency.
Act now to save children from rise in climate-driven extreme weather – UNICEF
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:20 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Governments are being pressed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to act now to safeguard younger generations from the immediate and long-term impacts of so-called “extreme weather events.”
Living a life in the ruins of Syria
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:17 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): Many people in Syria are trying to lead “a normal life amidst the ruins” of their country devastated by years of conflict; that’s according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who visited the Syrian city of Douma this week.
Refugees overcrowded to ‘boiling point’ on Greek island, warns UN agency
Sep 01, 2018, at 08:10 am
New York, Sept 1 (IBNS): The Government of Greece has been urged by the United Nations to do more to help thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants who have been “crammed” into island reception centres, amid reports that children have tried to take their own lives there.
Amsterdam: Suspect shot after double stabbing in central station
Aug 31, 2018, at 06:10 pm
Amsterdam, Aug 31 (IBNS): At least two people were wounded in a stabbing incident in Netherland's Amsterdam city on Friday, media reports said.
5.1 earthquake hits Greece, no casualty
Aug 31, 2018, at 05:03 pm
Athens, Aug 31 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale hit central Greece on Friday, as per US Geological Survey (USGS).
Australian Police arrest Sri Lankan man over terror charges
Aug 31, 2018, at 04:51 pm
Melbourne, Aug 31 (IBNS): The Australian police on Friday said they have arrested a Sri Lankan man on charges of terrorism.
Truck carrying WFP food hit in Yemen's Hodeidah Governatorate
Aug 31, 2018, at 03:44 pm
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gravely concerned about an incident on 29 August involving a truck under contract to WFP that came under shelling while delivering life-saving food assistance in the war-torn district of Al Tuhayta in Yemen’s southern Hodeidah governorate.
Aug 31, 2018, at 03:14 pm
London, Aug 31 (IBNS): Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczynski has said that he supports the burqa ban, stepping in the ongoing debate.
Australia's Catholic Church rejects recommendation to report sexual abuse
Aug 31, 2018, at 02:01 pm
Canberra, Aug 31 (IBNS): Australia's Catholic Church has rejected a recommendation that priests should report confessed sexual abuse.
Cambodia: Australian filmmaker James Ricketson jailed for espionage
Aug 31, 2018, at 01:29 pm
Phnom Pehn, Aug 31 (IBNS): An Australian filmmaker has been jailed in Cambodia after a court in the country found him guilty of espionage.
Security Council extends mandate of UN Interim Force in Lebanon for a year
Aug 31, 2018, at 09:02 am
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): In a unanimous action, the United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of the Organization’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until 31 August next year.
Guinea-Bissau: Upcoming elections vital to prevent ‘relapse’ into instability, says UN envoy
Aug 31, 2018, at 08:52 am
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): Highlighting the importance of the upcoming legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau, the top United Nations official in the country reiterated the importance of “far-reaching” reforms to prevent a relapse into political and institutional instability.
Aug 31, 2018, at 08:37 am
New York, Aug 31 (IBNS): A massive military escalation by the Government of Syria to retake Idlib risks a “worst case scenario”, United Nations negotiator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday.
London to witness bikini clad giant balloon of Sadiq Khan fly over Parliament Square
Aug 30, 2018, at 11:54 pm
London, Aug 30 (IBNS): A caricature of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a giant balloon is all set to fly over Parliament Square on Sept 1.
Aug 30, 2018, at 01:12 pm
Naypyidaw, Aug 30 (IBNS): The outgoing head of United Nations Human Rights said that following the Rohingya crisis, Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have stepped down.
Aug 30, 2018, at 08:29 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): As war and the mediation of peace have become increasingly complex, innovative thinking is needed to save and improve the lives of millions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Syria: UN chief warns Idlib offensive may set off ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
Aug 30, 2018, at 08:26 am
New York, Aug 30(IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe should a full-scale military operation take place in Syria’s war-battered Idlib province.
UN rights office calls for action to end ‘repression and retaliation’ in crisis-torn Nicaragua
Aug 30, 2018, at 08:23 am
New York, Aug 30 (IBNS): The United Nations on Wednesday called for urgent action to address the human rights crisis in Nicaragua, where “repression and retaliation against demonstrators continue … as the world looks away.”
Nuclear test ban treaty critical to global collective security – UN chief
Aug 30, 2018, at 08:20 am
New York, Aug30 (IBNS): Every effort should be made to bring a global treaty into force that prevents more countries from developing nuclear weapons, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.