Second terror attack in Paris, shots fired at cops
Paris, Jan 8 (IBNS): After the horrifying attack on a satirical magazine in Paris killing several journalists a day ago by suspected Islamic radicals, another attack was reported in the French capital on Thursday.
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Paris attack: 1 suspect surrenders
Paris, Jan 8 (IBNS): One of the three suspected gunmen, who had carried out a brutal attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, has surrended, media reports said.
UNICEF uses electronic vouchers to give Syrian refugee children access to winter clothes
New York, Jan 8 (IBNS) As Jordan braces for a winter storm in the next few days, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), on Wednesday launched a winter cash assistance programme to provide vulnerable Syrian refugee children in Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps with monetary assistance to allow their families to buy them winter clothes.
Yemen: Ban condemns deadly attack on police academy, calls for accountability
New York, Jan 8 (IBNS) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned in the strongest terms today’s attack against a policy academy in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and called for the perpetrators of the crime to be brought to justice.
Ban outraged by 'horrendous and cold-blooded' attack on French magazine
New York, Jan 8 (IBNS) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned the appalling and "cold-blooded crime" committed by terrorists who attacked the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which news reports indicate killed 10 media workers and two police officers.
UN report: 5.5 million displaced by war in first half of 2014, setting record
New York, Jan 8 (IBNS) War across large swathes of the Middle East and Africa in the first six months of 2014 forcibly displaced some 5.5 million people, signalling yet another record, the United Nations reported on Wednesday.
In phone call with DR Congo President, Ban urges 'decisive action' against armed group
New York, Jan 8 (IBNS) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a phone call with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s President, Joseph Kabila, on Wednesday appealed for decisive action against the armed group FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), after it failed to surrender on deadline.
Paris attack: 12 killed, French Prez calls shooting terror act
Paris, Jan 7 (IBNS): French President Francois Hollande has called the Paris magazine office attack as a 'terrorist' act which left at least 12 people killed.
British PM condemns Paris magazine office attack
London, Jan 7 (IBNS): British PM David Cameron on Wednesday condemned the attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which left at least 11 people dead.
Tail of missing AirAsia plane found
Jakarta, Jan 7 (IBNS): In a significant development, Chief of Indonesias Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) F.H. Bambang Soelistyo has said rescuers have found part of the tail of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 in the Javas sea.
Peace process in Mali at 'crucial stage' UN peacekeeping chief tells Security Council
New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) Progress in the political process in Mali over the last three months has been “fairly modestâ€, with fighting continuing despite talks in Algiers that marked the first occasion when armed groups and the Government engaged in direct conversations, the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations said in a briefing to the Security Council today.
On first visit to hard-hit nations, new UN Ebola mission chief vows scaled-up support to end crisis
New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) The new Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived in Liberia on Tuesday as part of his first tour of the countries in West Africa most affected by the outbreak of the virus.
UN Mission chief applauds joint operations against armed groups in eastern DR Congo
New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) A joint operation by United Nations troops and the Congolese army (FARDC) took control of the main bases used by an armed group actively threatening security and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s long-troubled eastern region.
UN-African Union mission peacekeepers attacked in spate of violence
New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) The Joint United Nations and African Union Mission in Darfur has reported that its peacekeepers came under two separate attacks on Tuesday while on patrol, both times by unidentified gunmen.
New Year offers little chance for children's education in Syria, warns UNICEF
New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) Recent school closures in Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zour governorates and parts of rural Aleppo in Syria have disrupted the education of some 670,000 children of primary and lower-high school age, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today.