United Nations

Saudi-led attacks on Yemen’s Hudaydah will destroy UN peace efforts: Ansarullah

Nov 26, 2018 04:05

The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement says the uptick in Saudi-led airstrikes on the strategic port city of Hudaydah will eventually frustrate efforts by United Nations Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to rekindle peace talks in Sweden next month.
Iran once again asks to participate in humanitarian activities in Yemen

Nov 24, 2018 01:57

The secretary general of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) expressed deep concern over the ongoing human tragedy caused by the Saudi-led war on Yemen and once again voiced the country’s readiness to send humanitarian assistance to the impoverished country.
Ansarullah to discuss giving UN ‘leading role’ in Hudaydah port: UN envoy

Nov 23, 2018 17:05

Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement has agreed to negotiate handing the United Nations a “leading UN role” in managing the vital Hudaydah port-city, according to UN envoy Martin Griffiths.
UN: Zionist entity has escalated violations of Lebanon airspace

Nov 23, 2018 08:11

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says the illegal Zionist entity has sharply increased its almost daily aerial violations in Lebanese airspace, urging the regime to halt them.
UN says level of greenhouse gases hit new high

Nov 22, 2018 14:24

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN says, warning that the time to act was running out.
UN draft resolution calls for Yemen truce, two weeks to unblock aid shipments

Nov 19, 2018 16:42

A United Nations draft resolution has called for an immediate truce in Hudaydah, Yemen’s strategic port and its only conduit to the outside world, setting a two-week deadline for removing all barriers to humanitarian aid for the impoverished state.
UN calls for calm after Myanmar police shoot, wound Rohingya Muslims

Nov 19, 2018 12:55

The United Nations has called for calm after several members of persecuted Rohingya Muslims were shot and wounded at a camp in the western state of Rakhine.
UN official, Iranian diplomat hold talks in Tehran

Nov 19, 2018 04:59

A senior UN official for humanitarian affairs met with an Iranian foreign minister special assistant about the conflicts in the Middle East and ways to help the war-hit people of Yemen in particular.
UK austerity program inflicted ‘great misery’ on Britons: UN

Nov 17, 2018 14:14

The United Nations has condemned the British government's austerity measures in a damning report, saying the “mean-spirited, and often callous” program has inflicted ‘great misery’ on millions of Britons.
Iran urges UN to take stance against US violations

Nov 17, 2018 03:37

Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, has called on the world body to take an official stance against America's evasion of the international law.