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The State Department also said the United States would release $6.6 million to the Syrian Civil Defense fund

UN rights forum last month voted to set up probe into killings in Gaza and accused Israel of excessive use of force

Zeid Al Hussein is urging Human Rights Council to consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry in held Kashmir

Pakistan is one of the four countries elected to the ECOSOC representing the Asia Pacific region

Diplomats are expecting the US amendment to fail and the Arab-backed resolution to pass and prosper

The proposed resolution is fundamentally imbalanced that ignores basic truths about the situation in Gaza, Haley said

Qatari foreign ministry denounces 'human rights violations arising from the UAE's discrimination against Qatar'

Clashes as UN tries to negotiate a ceasefire to avert a possible assault on the Yemen's main port city, Hodeidah

The emergency meeting has been pushed by the Organization of Islamic States and the Arab League

In a typical year the UN General Assembly elects five new members

Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also attend the meeting

At least 100 migrants were crammed into a smuggler's boat that left the port of Bossaso in Somalia on Tuesday

PIMA President has strongly condemned recent bombings by Israeli forces and the killing of medical personnel

UN officials warn against an assault on Hodeidah

European governments trying to salvage agreement ever since US withdrawal

Saudi air defences on Tuesday intercepted a ballistic missile from Yemen that targeted the western city of Yanbu

Technology aimed to help people with non-communicable diseases

Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, called on US authorities to provide solid social protection

Our soldiers and policemen while donning the uniform of peacekeepers have left a legacy of endurance and peace

Nikki Haley holds Hamas responsible for creating awful living conditions in Gaza

Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including tar and others that can narrow arteries

Over the last two weeks, every household in Sweden received a booklet of instructions on how to prepare for war

Four health facilities were hit this year after their GPS coordinates were shared with Russia and the United States

Civilian casualties remain high in Afghanistan's grinding conflict with more than 10,000 killed or wounded in 2017

Recent incidents across the LoC have underlined the futility of dialogue through ‘confidence building measures’

United Nations says more than 22 million people need humanitarian assistance in Yemen

UN refugee agency alarmed over displacement of people faces situation of little help and desperate need

Lodhi criticised the UNSC for remaining silent and not condemning the atrocities committed by the Israeli military

Turkey is among the most vocal critics of the Israeli use of deadly force against protesters at the Gaza border

Medical officials say 107 now killed in the protests

US blocks UN probe, Haley leaves before Palestinian envoy takes the stage

Abbasi flays rights violations by Indian forces

Trump opts not to impose sanctions on a Venezuelan oil services company and on insurance coverage

No reason was given for the withdrawal, but diplomats apprehend losing seat to Germany and Belgium

Army gunfire has killed at least 43 Palestinians on the frontier over the last month

Idlib region remains the largest populated area of Syria in the hands of insurgents fighting the Damascus government

Chairman senate urges that parliament and parliament lodges to be made disable-friendly

Rights groups say the army has stepped up its campaign in remote areas of Myanmar amid the Rohingya crisis

The UN adopted a called on Myanmar to rein in its military in a statement issued in November

Biotech counts women inventors in 58 per cent of all filings, mechanical elements just 14 per cent

Some 6.1 million people are now internally displaced in Syria

Russian official Yermakov describes the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as 'quite a fragile compromise'

Despite commitments to NPT, world powers engaged in modernising existing arsenals

Ambassador says, this will be the second term in which government is handed over to elected officials

The kind of peace that won’t disappear at the next election cycle

The nuclear technique will be used to suppress the insect that spreads Zika and other diseases

Pakistan stands as one of the largest troop contributing country for UN peace keeping missions

'Syrian government did all that it can do to facilitate the work of this mission'

ECOSOC elections held at UN headquarters in New York on Monday

Many Rohingya refugees fear returning to a country where they saw their relatives murdered by soldiers