Author: Christiane Roberts

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents on Friday at the daily briefing this includes mortar shells and damaged rockets. Since the latest cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel in…

The IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) decided to adjourn its extraordinary session convened this week in London and reconvene in a year’s time. Nations meanwhile are expected to continue…

Some carried weapons of war; others ammunition – the very items on which their eligibility for the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) process they were about to embark on depended.…

The crisis, which UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix described as “more daunting than ever,” follows the partial non-payment of assessed contributions – the mandatory dues Member States pay to finance…

On Thursday, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher made his way to Rafah on the southern Gaza border, from the Egyptian capital Cairo, describing the main Rafah crossing as a…

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) issued a statement welcoming the ceasefire between the two sides announced on Wednesday following a week of cross-border clashes and airstrikes in the…

The surge was driven by continued human emissions, more wildfire activity and weakened absorption by land and ocean “sinks” – a development that threatens to create a vicious climate cycle.…

Addressing the General Assembly, António Guterres briefed Member States on the structural reforms and programme realignments that are needed across the UN System to make it fully fit for today’s…

Last week, the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) submitted formal charges in two cases connected to alleged abuses at the Task Force for Interrogation Cell and the Joint Interrogation Cell,…

So we’re here outside the U.S. embassy compound in Tehran. Here we have an apple with the CNN logo. The Twin Towers interspersed with the dollar sign. The Statue of…