Turkey has entered the increasingly contested race to lead the United Nations, nominating veteran diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu for the organisation’s top position as negotiations over the successor to Secretary-General António Guterres remain
The United Nations, in its nearly 80-year-old history, is on the verge of fighting for its survival, as the Trump administration continues with its threats to drastically cut funding and pull out
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC India has launched a diplomatic initiative to promote former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe for a top United Nations post, preferably the Presidency of the UN
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In an address to the High-Level Segment of the Fifty-Eighth Session of the Human Rights Council, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, delivered a pointed critique of international economic coercion,
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A new United Nations report has painted a grim picture for Syria’s future, revealing that the war-torn country will require over 50 years to restore its economy to pre-conflict levels if current
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United Nations human rights experts have strongly condemned statements by US President Donald Trump suggesting that the United States could “take over” and “own” Gaza, even using military force if necessary. The
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A significant number of the world’s biggest polluters, including the EU, Australia, South Africa, and India, are expected to miss a key UN deadline to submit updated climate targets, due to economic
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At least 15 United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in clashes with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking one of the deadliest attacks on UN forces in recent
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Editorial Last week, a staged drama by a Western media outlet sent shockwaves: Mossad agents, in a stunningly brazen display, openly bragged about their covert operations, including an espionage plot against Hezbollah
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The lives of hundreds of thousands in the famine-struck Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) hang in the balance as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified attacks on North
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Comment by UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on public execution in Afghanistan We are disturbed by the public execution of a man at a sports stadium in the Afghan city
More When Dr Gamani Corea, a former Secretary-General of the Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was holding court in the delegate’s lounge, I asked him what he thought of the
More If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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Editor’s Note: In this exclusive article, Dr. Alireza Delkhosh, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sri Lanka, shares insights into Iran’s perspective on recent geopolitical developments and its stance
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian asserted on Monday that his country has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, pushing back against international concerns over its uranium enrichment program. “We have repeatedly emphasized that
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“To my regret, sanctioning states deny the existence of the humanitarian and often disastrous impact of unilateral sanctions,” said Alena Douhan, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of
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