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6-month extension for UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus

Friday, 30 January 2015, 1:00 pm | UN News

29 January 2015 – The Security Council today extended the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) – one of the longest running UN missions still in operation – until 31 July 2015, noting that despite some progress made in negotiations between ... More >>

Destruction of villages, displacement of thousands in Darfur

Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:59 pm | UN News

29 January 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the reported aerial bombardment and destruction of villages in the Golo locality of Central Darfur, and expressed concern over the worsening security situation, which ... More >>

Ebola cases reaching record low

Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:35 pm | UN News

Highly contaminated waste is removed from an Ebola Treatment Unit and carried with caution to a disposal area, where it will be fed into an incinerator that burns it into ashes. Photo: WHO/R. Sørensen More >>

UN political talks possibly moved to Libya

Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:22 pm | UN News

29 January 2015 – Participants in the United Nations-facilitated Libyan political dialogue in discussions in Geneva this week have agreed “on the principle” of convening future dialogue sessions in Libya, provided that logistical and security ... More >>

UNESCO chief denounces killing of journalists in South Sudan

Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:20 pm | UN News

29 January 2015 – The head of the United Nations agency mandated to defend freedom of expression and press freedom today denounced the killing of five journalists in South Sudan and an Iraqi broadcaster, who was killed while covering fighting in the ... More >>

Terrorist attack on hotel in Libyan capital

Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:08 pm | UN News

27 January 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attack against the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators, financiers and sponsors of such ... More >>

Mali: UN to investigate deadly protests against compound

Friday, 30 January 2015, 11:44 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – The United Nations Mission in Mali ( MINUSMA ) has launched an investigation into the events surrounding a violent protest in the northern city of Gao yesterday during which several people were reportedly killed and a number ... More >>

El Salvador’s pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage

Friday, 30 January 2015, 11:37 am | UN News

El Salvador’s pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage should pave way for review of similar sentences – UN experts More >>

UN ‘blue helmet’ killed near Lebanon-Israel cross-fire

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:29 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – A United Nations peacekeeper with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) was killed today near the border with Israel but the precise cause of death is as yet undetermined and remains the subject of investigation, according ... More >>

Middle East envoy Serry ‘outraged’ by attack on UN Gaza

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:27 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process, Robert Serry, has expressed outrage by the assault on the UN premises in Gaza this morning. More >>

Lack of funding hampering aid to Syria

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:14 am | UN News

Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang briefs the Security Council on the situation in Syria. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe More >>

Latin American Summit take up UN agency anti-hunger plan

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:11 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – A new plan to combat hunger in the Caribbean and Latin America presented by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) is being considered for adoption at a summit of the region’s leaders taking place today ... More >>

Netherlands Government decision to help homeless migrants

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:10 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – A group of United Nations human rights experts has welcomed the decision by the Government of the Netherlands to grant funding for municipalities that provide emergency shelters to homeless migrants in a reversal from the Dutch ... More >>

Malawi in urgent need after intense flooding

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:07 am | UN News

Torrential rains in Malawi have caused dozens of deaths, with hundreds of people still missing. Photo: UNDP/Arjan van de Merwe More >>

UN urges Kazakhstan to boost rights of peaceful assembly

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:00 am | UN News

28 January 2015 – An independent United Nations rights expert today urged the Government of Kazakhstan to match the country's economic successes of the past quarter century with a ramped-up focus on human rights by opening up the Central Asian state's democratic ... More >>

World tourism tops 1.1 billion in 2014

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 10:37 am | UN News

27 January 2015 – The number of international tourists reached 1.13 billion in 2014, 51 million more than in 2013, on trend for the fifth consecutive year of above average growth since the 2009 economic crisis, the United Nations World Tourism Organization ... More >>

strong>Yemen: Release of abducted presidential aide

Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 12:12 pm | UN News

27 January 2015 – The United Nations envoy on Yemen has welcomed the release today of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's chief of staff, and urged the opposition group Ansarallah – which had abducted the official last week – “to undertake steps ... More >>