UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) yesterday opened a new refugee camp in the Anbar governorate, west of Iraq, to receive those displaced from areas witnessing clashes between Daesh...

US Secretary of State John Kerry rejected a French proposal on Monday which calls for the deployment of international observers in Jerusalem to oversee the status quo in Al-Aqsa...

France is pushing for the publication of a presidential statement on behalf of the UN Security Council that calls for the deployment of international observers to Jerusalem’s holy sites,...

Israeli Representative to the UN Danny Danon expressed on Friday the Israeli refusal to any international presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, claiming this would “violate decades-old status quo,” Alkhaleejonline.com reported....

On Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) Permanent Representative Riyad Mansour called upon the UN Security Council to guarantee the disarming of Israeli Jewish settlers in occupied Palestinian territories, Quds Press...

Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Ambassador Vitaly Churkin called on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to submit the proposal related to granting international protection for...

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat called for allowing the entry of a private investigation committee to probe the field executions carried out by the Israeli authorities against the Palestinian...

The US government said on Tuesday that Iran might have breached a UN Security Council resolution when it tested long-range ballistic missiles at the weekend, Anadolu has reported. According...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Monday condemned the recent murder and injury of a number of Palestinians by Israeli security forces. Several cities...

UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said 22 UN member states pledged $100 million to its budget while others are awaiting parliamentary approvals before donating, the...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to urgently send international protection staff to the Palestinian territories before his government loses...

On Wednesday, 30 September, the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York after the General Assembly voted overwhelming in favour of...

The United Nations on Friday suspended its planned humanitarian operations in Syria because of an increase of military activities in concerned areas of the war-torn country. UN Special Envoy...

The Moroccan government decided to boycott Swedish companies yesterday following the government in Stockholm’s “determination” to support what is known as the “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”, established unilaterally by...

Britain has been accused of playing a key role in Saudi Arabia’s election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) through a secret vote-trading deal carried out between London...

Fabricated claims of UN bias against Israel continue to fuel Israeli media reports covering this year’s UN General Assembly. As Mahmoud Abbas played the usual game of fluctuating threats...

The Malaysian prime minister today condemned Israel for what he called its “systematic dehumanisation” of Palestinians, saying the situation risked becoming a “catastrophe”. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly,...

The Israeli government should expand settlement construction and accelerate its pace in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Hebrew TV reported the Yesha...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that Palestine is under occupation and that the PA is no longer bound by the Oslo accords signed with Israel,...

The Palestinian flag is to be raised for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York later today in what is being described as a the “most...

Saudi Arabia has called for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem to be blacklisted by the United Nations, and condemned the Israeli government for aiding and...

A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Monday that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year’s war in the Gaza Strip and the freeze...

It is election season in Canada. On 19 October Canadians will cast their votes to select representatives for the federal Parliament in Ottawa. According to recent polling it’s going...

Jordan has rejected a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen which said that the coalition forces committed human rights violations and...

A lot of speculation has gripped the media with regard to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s forthcoming speech at the UN General Assembly on 29 September. Reports in the...

McDonald’s is leading a group of companies to provide assistance to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) which seeks to secure food aid for millions of Syrian refugees. Instead...

The appointment of a key human rights role to Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN has been described as “scandalous” given the country’s “worst record in the world” on...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas pledged not to announce the dismantling of the PA or the cancellation of the Oslo Accords during his upcoming speech at the UN...

Egypt was the largest receiver of development aid in 2013, the UN reported yesterday, adding that the African state was paid $5.5 billion in that year. UN Secretary-General Ban...

“The continuation of the war in Syria will inflame new wars fuelled by the desire of some countries to maintain their influence,” a senior UN official has warned yesterday....

Mahmoud Abbas has promised to drop a “bombshell” during his speech scheduled for later this month at the UN; his bomb, however, detonated too soon in Tulkarem, only 30...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has finally realised “the necessity for sending troops on the ground in Syria” in order to counter and eliminate Daesh. Perhaps Kerry made...