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The United Arab Emirates will support United Nations proposals for new peace talks on Yemen

73rd UNGA finds itself with President Trump chairing a session of the Security Council

The Freida Pinto, Richa Chadha-starrer is based on sex trafficking that exists in India

As UN peace drive has dragged on without evident success, Syrian forces have backed opposition into Idlib

342 meetings are scheduled and hundreds of bilateral talks in a marathon that UN has dubbed "diplomatic speed-dating"

The defiant response is the army chief's first public reaction since a UN fact-finding mission

Tripoli and western Libya are run by UN-backed government mainly supported by armed groups

Struggling with tighter budgets from US cuts, UN remains defensive as its efforts in Syria, Libya and Yemen fall short

Rouhani accuses US-backed Gulf Arab states of providing support for anti-government ethnic Arab groups

After the British foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, shows his concern

UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution aiming to toughen UN response to peacekeeper misconduct

3.5 million people may soon be added to eight million Yemenis already facing starvation

United Nations gives cautious backing to Russian-Turkish agreement in Idlib

Experts call on European institutions to continue addressing the deteriorating human rights situation in Hungary

Deadly clashes resumed around the Huthi-held port city of Hodeida following the collapse of talks in Geneva

World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 could possibly miss their ambitious target

Trump campaigned in 2016 promising tight restrictions on immigration

The summit brought together Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his Ethiopian counterpart Isaias Afwerki

Demographic trends show a billion people have lifted themselves out of poverty in the past 20 years

The UN's detailed analysis calls on the international community to investigate military top brass for genocide

Nearly 10,000 people have been killed since the civil war began in 2015, Yemen now stands on the brink of famine

Russia seeks push for changes to an independent report on sanctions violations, says US ambassador to UN

President Maithripala Sirisena set to ask UN General Assembly to allow Sri Lanka to resolve war crime allegations

According to UN civilians in Yemen's Hodeida province continue to face severe shortages of food, water and medicine

Around 6,000 mourners pack the auditorium for former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's official service

Amid fears of an all-out military assault

The 38 countries included 29 countries with new cases

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation organised a two-day consultation workshop

Nearly three quarters of crucial imports to impoverished Yemen pass through Hodeidah

Idlib province, adjacent rural areas form the largest piece of territory still held by Syria's beleaguered rebels

The Huthis have refused to take off from the rebel-held capital unless the UN meets a list of conditions

Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan hub of opium, heroin trade, says the report 

If an agreement is not reached by the COP24 summit in Poland, the Paris Agreement, carved out in 2015, will be at risk

Yemen's warring parties meet in Geneva Thursday for a new round of peace talks

39% of Pakistan’s population lived in urban areas in 2016 compared to 31% in 1990

Talks are aimed at charting a path forward to revive UN-backed negotiations which broke down in 2016

The goal is to protect marine biodiversity and avoid further pillaging of the oceans

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert was named special representative and will head up the UN's Assistance Mission for Iraq

Russian Foreign Minister says the Syrian government has every right to chase militants out of Idlib

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) revealing that 2.2 million abortions are carried out in Pakistan every year

Myanmar demands strong evidence of any alleged abuses for investigation to be undertaken

Many of these violations amount to war crimes, the report says, pointing to arbitrary detention, rape, torture

Iran has argued that US President Donald Trump breached a 1955 treaty with his decision to reimpose sanctions

Strikes that fail to spare people or structures protected by international humanitarian law considered unlawful

investigators say Myanmar should be referred to ICC or ad hoc tribunal created

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is under investigation for abuse of office, kidnapping and illegal arrest

As the United Nation’s seventh Secretary General, the first black African to rise to this honourable position

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria

In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations, says UN Secretary General

The World Humanitarian Day was first marked on 19th August 2003