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UN says Syria’s neighbours now host 4 million refugees

  (REUTERS) The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said…

PH to UN: South China Sea disputes of global concern

MANILA, June 15 -- The Philippines on June 12 stressed before the United Nations that China’s expansionist policy claiming almost…

UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-Moon visits Vietnam, makes remarks on South China Sea dispute

MAY 22 (Reuters) -- United Nation General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon met with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang in Hanoi Friday…

UN agencies join in Nepal quake relief

MAY 1 (Reuters) -- The devastating earthquake in Nepal has drawn high attention from all over the world and several…

UN conference in Doha stresses urgent need to combat wildlife crime

WITH wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, high-level officials from the United Nations…

China, tuloy pa rin sa pangingisda sa Kalayaan Islands

Sa kabila ng pagsasampa ng kaso ng Pilipinas sa United Nations ay tuloy pa rin ang China sa pangingisda sa…

Libya to deport Senegalese migrants

Libyan authorities says they will deport more than 100 illegal immigrants from Senegal who have been held at a prison…

UN court says neither Serbia nor Croatia committed genocide in 1990s wars

The United Nations' highest court ruled on Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other's populations…

Firefighters battle large fire at Moscow library

Firefighters in the Russian capital Moscow on Friday (January 30) night battled a large fire in the library of the…

UN health agency says no Ebola detected in Iraq, calls reports of cases ‘rumours’

Despite reports of Ebola cases in Mosul in several Iraqi media sources last week, the Iraqi Ministry of Health and…

Good jobs, good education, better health care voted as priorities in survey for a better world

GENEVA - Over 7 million people from 194 countries have participated in MY World, the United Nations survey for a…

U.N.: Children maimed, raped, tortured, killed in 2014

The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has declared 2014 a devastating year for children, with as many as 15 million…

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