Khashoggi murder trials must public and meet international standards, UN expert urges
Mar 29, 2019, at 09:02 am
New York, Mar 29 (IBNS): A United Nations human rights expert said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s closed-door trials of those it accuses of assassinating the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, have fallen short of international standards, calling instead for public trials of the alleged killers.
New UN Global Climate report ‘another strong wake-up call’ over global warming: Guterres
Mar 29, 2019, at 09:01 am
New York, Mar 29 (IBNS): The increasing number of natural disasters and dangers linked to climate change, highlighted in a major UN report released on Thursday, represents “another strong wake-up call” to the world, which must be countered by finding sustainable solutions quickly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
Mar 29, 2019, at 08:53 am
New York, Mar 29 (IBNS): The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed on Thursday his deepest concern and strongly condemned recent attacks against villages in Mali, including mass-killings last weekend in the Mopti region, which left 160 dead, including some 50 children, according to the UN human rights office (OHCHR).
Landmark terror finance resolution adopted by Security Council
Mar 29, 2019, at 08:48 am
New York, Mar 29 (IBNS): The UN is hailing a new Security Council resolution adopted on Thursday as a landmark step in suppressing the funding of terror groups worldwide.
Bangladesh building fire: Death toll touches 19
Mar 29, 2019, at 08:35 am
Dhaka, Mar 29 (IBNS): The death toll in the massive fire, which broke out at a high-rise building in Bangladesh capital Dhaka's upscale Banani area on Thursday, has touched 19, media reports said on Friday.
China asks US to 'act cautiously' on Masood Azhar blacklist resolution
Mar 28, 2019, at 03:41 pm
New Delhi, Mar 28 (IBNS): China on Thursday asked the US to "act cautiously" after the latter circulated a draft resolution at the 15-member UN Security Council to blacklist Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar.
Fire breaks out at Dhaka highrise, people trapped inside
Mar 28, 2019, at 03:10 pm
Dhaka, Mar 28 (Xinhua): A massive fire broke out in a high-rise commercial building in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka's upmarket Banani on Thursday afternoon, leaving unknown number of people trapped, fire service personnel said.
Forced pregnancy in Italy violated ‘woman’s human right to health’, UN experts rule
Mar 28, 2019, at 09:14 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): The Italian Government violated a woman’s “human right to health” after a law which denied her the right to refuse fertility treatment she had previously agreed to, “led her to undergo a forced pregnancy”, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) said on Wednesday.
As Syria conflict enters ninth year, humanitarian crisis 'far from over', Security Council hears
Mar 28, 2019, at 09:10 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): Eight years ago this month, the Syria conflict began, leading to a humanitarian crisis that remains “far from over”, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday. 11.7 million need humanitarian assistance and protection, and more than 5.6 million Syrians are living as refugees across the region.
'Race against time' to help women who bore brunt of Cyclone Idai: UN reproductive health agency
Mar 28, 2019, at 09:08 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): As the full extent of destruction caused by Cyclone Idai across southern Africa continues to be assessed, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said on Wednesday it was in “a race against time” to protect women who bore the brunt of the storm as they tried to save their households and livelihoods.
Yemen hospital airstrike under investigation amid resurgence of deadly cholera
Mar 28, 2019, at 09:01 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): UN human rights staff in Yemen are investigating an apparent airstrike on a hospital in opposition-held territory which reportedly killed at least seven civilians on Tuesday, amid fears that cholera is spreading “like wildfire”, one of the organization’s senior humanitarian officials has warned.
Mar 28, 2019, at 08:57 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): Nations across Asia and the Pacific need to take bold action to ensure empowerment, inclusiveness and equality if the region is to realize the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a major UN conference has heard.
Mar 28, 2019, at 08:52 am
New York, Mar 28 (IBNS): The UN’s top rights official on Wednesday rejected claims by Sri Lankan officials that she distanced herself from a report on the country and instructed her staff to be more “cautious” in future, before stressing her commitment to justice for victims of grave abuses during the civil war.
Hindu minor girl abducted in Pakistan
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:11 pm
Islamabad, Mar 27 (IBNS): A minor Hindu girl was allegedly kidnapped in Jam Khan Pitafi village of Pakistan, her father has said.
Trump's suggestion to add Brazil to NATO disregards alliance's founding document - Grushko
Mar 27, 2019, at 05:02 pm
Moscow, Mar 27 (Sputnik/UNI) US President Donald Trump may have signaled his lack of knowledge about NATO's founding document when suggesting that Brazil could be a part of the alliance, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Wednesday, adding that such statements do nothing to diffuse existing tensions.
Austrian chancellor confirms New Zealand shooter linked to Austrian Far-Right group
Mar 27, 2019, at 04:55 pm
Vienna, Mar 27 (Sputnik/UNI) Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz confirmed on Wednesday that the gunman who perpetrated fatal shootings at two mosques in New Zealand earlier in March was linked to Austrian far-right Identitarian Movement.
Britain's Prince Charles inaugurates solar farm in Cuba
Mar 27, 2019, at 04:39 pm
Havana, Mar 27 (Xinhua/UNI) Britain's Prince Charles on Tuesday attended the ceremony of laying the first stone of a solar farm at the Special Development Zone of Mariel (ZEDM), as part of his visit to Cuba.
14 killed in road accident in Kenya
Mar 27, 2019, at 04:20 pm
Machakos, Kenya, Mar 27 (Xinhua/UNI) Fourteen people were killed and several others injured in a road accident early Wednesday after a Nairobi-bound bus rammed onto a stationary truck in Machakos County in eastern Kenya.
Missing Chinese student found in good health in Canada
Mar 27, 2019, at 04:08 pm
Toronto, Mar 27 (IBNS): Chinese student Wanzhen Lu, who is believed to have been kidnapped near Toronto, has been found in a good health in Canada, media reports said.
BSF seizes cattle, other items worth Rs 49 lakh in Meghalaya while being smuggled to Bangladesh
Mar 27, 2019, at 12:01 pm
Guwahati, Mar 27 (IBNS): The Border Security Force (BSF) have seized cattle and contraband drugs worth Rs 49 lakh along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya within a week.
Xi calls for strong China-France partnership
Mar 27, 2019, at 10:46 am
Paris, March 27 (Xinhua): Chinese President Xi Jinping met with French senate president Gerard Larcher here Tuesday, urging the two sides to maintain sound strategic partnership and foster more fruitful practical cooperation so as to lay a stronger foundation for bilateral ties.
China issues white paper on democratic reform, achievements in Tibet
Mar 27, 2019, at 10:08 am
Beijing, Mar 27 (Xinhua/UNI) China's State Council Information Office on Wednesday issued a white paper on democratic reform and the leap of development in Tibet over the past six decades.
Sudan condemns US recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli territory
Mar 27, 2019, at 10:06 am
Khartoum, Mar 26 (Xinhua/UNI) Sudan on Tuesday condemned a decision by the US administration recognizing Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights.
Four suicide bombers killed in operation in SW Pakistan
Mar 27, 2019, at 10:03 am
Islamabad, Mar 27 (Xinhua/UNI) Pakistani security officials said on Tuesday that four terrorists were killed by detonating their explosives after security forces conducted an operation in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, local media reported.
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:38 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): The UN’s outgoing Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region on Tuesday said countries there had made “important steps towards durable peace and stability” in the last 20 years, resulting in a region that is now “largely peaceful”.
Brazilian officer a ‘stellar example’ of why more women are needed in UN peacekeeping
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:13 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): Training gender advisors and focal points in the Central African Republic (CAR) has earned a Brazilian United Nations peacekeeper a special gender advocate award, it was announced on Tuesday.
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:10 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): With Yemen now in its fifth year of conflict between pro-Government forces and Houthi rebels, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for “unhindered access” to the most desperate areas in the frontline regions “to prevent the food security situation deteriorating”.
Mali’s ‘self-defence’ groups must face justice, after deadly intercommunal attacks
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:09 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): Mali’s authorities have been urged by the UN to provide justice for the victims and survivors of attacks by so-called self-defence groups, responsible for horrific intercommunal violence in central Mali, after a weekend assault that claimed the lives of more than 150 people, including some 50 children.
‘Provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric’ destabilizing Middle East, warns top UN official
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:03 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): Against a backdrop of rising tensions in Israel and Palestine, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East, painted a bleak picture once again in the Security Council on Tuesday, cataloguing further terrorist acts, attacks against civilians, reprisals against demonstrators, unlawful demolitions and settlement expansions, and a funding crisis which could have dramatic consequences for the stability of an already volatile region.
UN expert condemns new sentence for jailed Venezuelan judge as ‘another instance of reprisal’
Mar 27, 2019, at 08:50 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): Maria Lourdes Afiuni, a jailed Venezuelan judge arrested ten years ago, has been slapped with a further five-year sentence, prompting a UN human rights expert to express his “grave concern”, describing the further punishment as an act of “reprisal against her”.