SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited missile bases to examine their readiness to undertake actions of "strategic deterrence", while calling U.S. nuclear ...

Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, has called South Korea a foreign and hostile country, according to state media KCNA. It comes after the reclusive state amended its constitution to ...

“Israel’s internationally wrongful acts give rise to state responsibility, not only for Israel, but for all states,” Navi Pillay, the head of the UN Independent International Commission of ...

The UN Security Council on Friday renewed for one year the sanctions regime on Haiti – including a targeted assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo measures – aimed at curbing the illicit flow of ...

Despite ongoing heavy shelling every day across the UN-patrolled Blue Line separating southern Lebanon and Israel, the UN peacekeeping force that's stationed there reiterated its determination on ...

The UN Secretary-General has said the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should lead to a swift end to the year-long war in Gaza, the release of all hostages and unimpeded delivery of aid, his Deputy ...

The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) features a packed 12-day agenda designed to help humanity make “peace with nature”, in the words of host country Colombia. That process is crucial for fostering ...

UN peacekeepers say they are being targeted by Israeli troops in Lebanon, following an alleged attack on a watchtower at one of their bases on Wednesday. The Israeli military (IDF) says it is ...

More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed and livelihoods decimated during the ongoing Israeli ...

More than a billion people worldwide live in acute poverty and 40 per cent are in countries exposed to violent conflict, according to a UN-backed study published on Thursday. The finding comes in the ...

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