Tag Archives: United Nations

Thursday, 5 October 2017 :  Bangladeshi authorities have destroyed about 20 boats that ferried Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, accusing smugglers of using the huge exodus to bring methamphetamine into the country. Refugees told Reuters that border guards also beat and arrested passengers and crew as they landed at Shah …

Wednesday, 20 September 2017 :  U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear standoff, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission. Loud murmurs filled …

Thursday, 27 July 2017 UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday he is concerned about the risk of violence escalating in the Old City of Jerusalem, where recent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have been the bloodiest in years. “I am particularly concerned about the potential risk of …

Tuesday, 11 July 2017 BEIRUT: Syria’s government and opposition met for a seventh round of United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with little expectation of a breakthrough to end the six-year conflict. The Geneva process has been increasingly overshadowed by a separate track organised by regime allies Russia and Iran, …

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 :  The actress and director was named an ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2001 and has since been promoted to special envoy due to her immense activism. On Tuesday, World Refugee Day, she traveled to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi …

Thursday, 8 June 2017 It is estimated that by the year 2050, 25% of the world’s population will be water insecure, with countries like Bangladesh, China and India set to experience a “chronic or recurrent” lack of access to clean water. On Tuesday United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed out …

Friday, 19 May 2017 AMSTERDAM: The World Court on Thursday ordered Pakistan not to execute Indian citizen Kulbhushan Sudir Jadhav, convicted of spying, until it has had time to hear an argument from India that Pakistan violated an international treaty guaranteeing diplomatic help to foreigners accused of capital crimes. The …

Saturday, 6 May 2017 SEOUL: North Korea on Friday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea’s intelligence service of a plot to attack its “supreme leadership” with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a “pipe-dream” could never succeed. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, …

Thursday, 20 April 2017 As a large-scale hunger strike within Israel’s prison system enters its second day, authorities are warning that there will be widespread rallies within the Middle Eastern nation in support of the peaceful protest action, as well as potential riots, though the hunger-strikers have disavowed violence. After …

Saturday, 11 March 2017   GENEVA: Myanmar looks set to es­cape an international investigation into alleged atrocities against its Rohingya minority, after the Euro­pean Union decided not to seek one at the UN Human Rights Council, said a draft resolution. The United Nations said in a report last month that …