HAMILTON, April 25 — The United Nations (UN) urged India and Pakistan to exercise "maximum restraint" following a deadly attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

GENEVA, April 4 — Myanmar's military is limiting critically needed humanitarian aid for earthquake victims in areas where it sees opposition to its rule, the United Nations (UN) human rights office said today.

YANGON, April 2 — United Nations (UN) officials have voiced concerns about a potential health crisis in Myanmar after Friday's (March 28) powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake, which resulted in thousands of deaths, injuries, and missing persons, the Emirates News Agency reported.

BANGKOK, March 31 — Rescuers freed a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar, officials said today, a glimmer of hope three days after a massive earthquake that killed around 2,000 as searchers in Myanmar and Thailand raced against time to find more survivors.

BANGKOK, March 29 — A powerful earthquake killed more than 140 people in Myanmar yesterday, authorities said, toppling buildings and wrecking infrastructure across a wide area, including a skyscraper under construction in neighbouring Thailand.

GENEVA, March 19 — The UN human rights chief said yesterday he was horrified by Israeli strikes on Gaza which Palestinian authorities say have killed hundreds of people, threatening the complete collapse of a ceasefire with Hamas.

GENEVA, March 14 — Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a report yesterday.

GENEVA, Feb 28 — The UN human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale.

NEW YORK, Feb 19 — China supports all efforts conducive to peace talks in Ukraine, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations Security Council yesterday, and stressed that Gaza and the West Bank are "not a bargaining chip in political trade-offs".

NEW YORK, Feb 6 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday told President Donald Trump to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the US leader proposed that Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave.

NEW YORK, Jan 21 — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 915 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas after 15 months of war.

NEW YORK, Oct 18 — The world experienced the first increase in extreme poverty in 20 years, and inequality has risen sharply and remains high, as successive shocks, starting with the Covid-19 pandemic, have led to reversals in key measures of social development progress, according to a UN report launched on Thursday.

HAMILTON (Canada), Aug 1 — Iran’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) affirmed Wednesday that his country will retaliate for the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran "when it deems necessary and appropriate,” Anadolu agency reported.

SYDNEY, May 27 — Unstable terrain, remote locations and damaged roads are hampering relief efforts in Papua New Guinea after more than 670 people were feared killed in a landslide last week in the Pacific nation's north, the United Nations said today.

GENEVA, May 25 — Francesca Albanese, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, on Saturday, called on the international community to impose sanctions on Israel and suspend diplomatic relations with it until it complies with the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

HAMILTON (Canada), May 23 — Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Riyad Mansour welcomed a decision by Ireland, Norway and Spain on Wednesday to recognise a Palestinian state, reported Anadolu Agency (AA).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — The United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, raised concerns about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid an Israeli blockade, leaving civilians with “no aid” for days.

DUBAI, April 26 — A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex.

GAZA CITY, April 25 — Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported the outbreak of meningitis and hepatitis among displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT, April 23 — Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) are members of terrorist groups, according to a review of the agency's neutrality released on Monday that could prompt some donor countries to review funding freezes.