A prolonged communications blackout that severed telephone and internet connections compounded the misery on Saturday in the besieged Gaza Strip, where a United Nations...
Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
Maal has long been an activist on...
The United Nations’ human rights chief has decried increasing restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan, urging the country’s Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately.
Taliban...
Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades.
In a joint statement issued on Friday, the actress...
A United Nations-backed mission is recommending that the Great Barrier Reef be added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites.
The body says that...
An Iranian general has acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding nationwide protests, giving the first official word...
The United Nations humanitarian agency is warning that about 5.7 million Pakistani flood survivors will face a serious food crisis in the next three...
