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Facebook has threatened to terminate the personal account of the Executive Director of the Switzerland-based NGO, UN Watch, for violating community rules. According to the Times of Israel, Hillel...

The rise in global food prices will have repercussions on the Middle East where high prices and deteriorating living conditions sparked the Arab Spring revolutions, reports The New Arab's...

Arab countries, on Monday, rushed to condemn a Houthi rebel attack from Yemen on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which killed at least three people and injured six others,...

Libyan Parliament Speaker, Aguila Saleh, said Monday that the mandate of the country's unity government has expired, Anadolu News Agency reports. Saleh told parliament that the confidence obtained by...

As the UN Security Council marks the 76th anniversary of its first session, discussions on reforming the governmental body continue among many countries. A prominent Turkish expert pointed to...

The United Nations' Special Envoy to Syria has dismissed the need for regime change in Syria and said that the country is stable under President Bashar Al-Assad, seeming to...

The Arab League and the United Nations yesterday agreed on "holding the Libyan elections as soon as possible." The agreement came during a meeting between the League's Secretary-General, Ahmed...

The United Nations said, Friday, it is "alarmed" at the killing of 108 civilians in Ethiopia's Tigray region since the start of the year, as reports mount of airstrikes...

Staffan de Mistura, UN envoy to the Western Sahara, yesterday began his first visit to Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. De Mistura is going to meet Moroccan officials in Rabat, according...

Eight UN member states, including Iran and Venezuela, have lost their voting rights because of unpaid dues, according to documents revealed on Wednesday and reported by Anadolu News Agency....

The UN Special Envoy to Yemen has said military escalation does not bring any sustainable solutions, calling on the international community to give consistent support to the country, according...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday released a $1.9 billion Humanitarian Response Plan to support Sudan in 2022, Anadolu reported. "Today, we also launched the...

Developments in Tunisia over the past month have deepened our already serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation there, the spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Liz Throssell,...

The UN and its partners launched the "largest-ever" humanitarian aid appeal for a single country on Tuesday, Anadolu has reported. The appeal seeks to raise $4.4 billion to avert...

Sudan's Sovereignty Council has welcomed the UN initiative to facilitate dialogue among all of the Sudanese parties to resolve the country's political crisis, Anadolu has reported. The announcement was...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on Monday, called for dialogue to resolve world crises and achieve peace, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sisi made the call as he opened a...

The UN mission in Sudan today launched a UN-facilitated intra-Sudanese political process in an effort to salve the country's transition to democracy, Anadolu Agency reports. Volker Perthes, the head...

Norway's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), pledged to advance the UN Security Council discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a ministerial level this month, to restore its focus...

While elections in South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Hungary, Angola, Kenya, Italy and France will dominate the global political scene in 2022, the developments associated...

A group of unknown perpetrators attacked United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night, according to a UN official. The 'blue helmets' had their vehicles vandalised and official...

Representatives of the United Nations and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday called for joint efforts to fight corruption for sustainable development in the world, Anadolu News Agency...

The UAE along with four other countries – Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana – have assumed responsibilities as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Although the two-year term...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday announced the suspension of vital relief programmes in Yemen due to a lack of funding. "Lack of...

Iran's space launch on Thursday failed to put its three payloads into orbit after the rocket was unable to reach the required speed, a defence ministry spokesman said in...

The United States (US) announced yesterday that it will donate $99 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as...

Egypt and the United Nations are trying to pressure Israel to end the detention of Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash, media reported yesterday. Al-Mayadeen quoted sources...

"We have no more land left for confiscation. The settlers have turned into an entity organised to terrorise and deport Palestinians," the head of Palestine's Land Research Centre...

The Turkish government has ratified several international agreements in areas of sports, transportation, economy and trade, according to the country's Official Gazette on Thursday, and reported by Anadolu News...

The UN will be funding an open-ended investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, departing from this year's aggression against Gaza. For the first time – and this is...

The Sudanese authorities, on Wednesday, announced a partial curfew in the North Darfur province over looting of stores and bases of international organisations, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to...

Over 2,000 more internally displaced people have arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu in the last two days fleeing from the deadly drought battering the Horn of Africa country,...

French police have detained a French-Syrian man on suspicion of supplying the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with components to develop its chemical weapons capabilities. According to the news...