Qatar abandons effort to move UN air agency from Montreal

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday voiced his appreciation of China's efforts to promote the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, saying that Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting in the day in Beijing with a special ...

A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax ...

UN will honour over 100 UN peackeepers, including five Indians, who were killed.The International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers will be observed Wednesday to honour over 100 Blue Helmets (peacekeepers) deployed around the world, a UN statement said ...

"This form (caste-based) of discrimination entails gross and wide-ranging human rights abuses, including brutal forms of violence," the group of experts noted. People considered low caste in South Asia are known as 'dalits' or 'untouchables'. In many ...

Brazils Neymar is on the verge of choosing one of two offers from un-named clubs, reported to be Spanish suitors Barcelona and Real Madrid, after Santos agreed on Friday to transfer him. Santos said they had ended a three-year fight to keep the 21-year-old, ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today called on all parties in Nepal to overcome remaining political obstacles to hold the country's next elections within the existing timetable. Ban's spokesperson said the Secretary-General "has been following events in ...

Five Indians are among over 100 fallen peacekeepers who will be honoured by the UN for their "bravery" during operations last year across the world. More than 100 blue helmets who lost their lives in the past months while serving the cause of peace ...

New Zealand took two wickets in as many balls to reduce England to 67 for three at lunch on the second day of the second Test in Leeds on today. ... email this article Subject line: Your Email: Send me a copy: Recipients Id: Type address separated by commas ...

Ben Emmerson, the lawyer leading a UN drone inquiry, has praised President Barack Obama's speech as a significant step towards increased transparency. Emmerson said Obama had set out more clearly than ever before the legal justifications for targeted killing.