As he described to an Al Jazeera Arabic anchor about the incident at the school in the Jabaliya camp that had left at least 13 casualties, United Nations Relief And Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesperson Chris Gunness broke down on camera, and was obviously distraught that the camera had to pan to the left to cut the interview short.
The Associated Press said that as of Friday, over 900 targets have been attacked so far and had resulted to over 85 casualties and 300 civilians injured. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has since cautioned both factions about the consequences of their conflict. Christian Science Monitor reported that the Security Council is expected to have an emergency meeting to discuss the Middle Eastern fighting.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said today in Beijing that China will not be taking any action on the Philippine's dispute over territory claims in the South China Sea, Bloomberg reported.
According to a report by the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime, there are no steps yet to ban or at least curb the sale, distribution and use of 348 legal high drugs, which appeared in the last five years.
Russia is uncharacteristically diplomatic following the secession votes held on Sunday by the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in Ukraine, The Sydney Morning Herald noted.
In a phone interview with The Associated Press, United Nations humanitarian official Toby Lanzer expressed concerns about the public health and safety implications of the Nuer rebel group killings in South Sudan.
Mothers of Srebrenica, an interest group that represented the survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, filed a civil claim against the government of the Netherlands for the failure of its Dutch battalion to protect the victims who sought their aid in the area's safe zone during the time of the attack led by General Ratko Mladic.
39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general, was arrested after dropping off her daughter at school last Thursday and detained in New York on visa fraud charges, CNN reported. Khobragade was held in a cell with other females and strip-searched following her arrest, the U.S. Marshals Service said. She was soon freed on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty to the charges
The United Nations said on Monday that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government and the opposition will hold their first negotiations, which aims to end the county's civil war, in planned peace talks to take place in Geneva on January 22
The Lebanese-based al-Qaida linked group known as the Abdullah Azzam Brigade claimed responsibility for two explosions, at least one caused by a suicide bomber at Iran's embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post reported. 23 people, including an Iranian cultural attache, were killed in the double suicide attack
U.S. and British warships have been deployed to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines where thousands are feared dead, Agence France Presse reported. The United Nations warned that 10,000 people were feared dead in the city of Tacloban alone, the capital of Leyte province where "16 foot waves flattened nearly everything in their path as they swept hundreds of meters inland,"
The M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced that it would disarm, potentially paving the way for peaceful negotations after a latest round of bloodshed which have killed millons
The Nobel Prize committee honored the United Nations-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a small organization which dispatched experts to Syria after a gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August.
While in New York for the General Assembly, Secretary of State John Kerry signed a U.N. treaty on arms regulation, in a move that some lawmakers vowed to not ratify in the Senate
The 68th U.N. General Assembly sessions began in New York this week as members of almost 200 countries converged for a week of diplomacy and dialogue in hopes of reaching important breakthroughs for some of the most important worldly issues.
The 68th session of the U.N. General Assembly began in New York this week as members of almost 200 countries converged for a week of diplomacy and dialogue in hopes of reaching important breakthroughs for some of the most important world issues.
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
U.N. Secretary-General B Ki-Moon raised the death toll in Syria's civil war surpassing 100,000 up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago. Ban called on the Syrian government and opposition to halt the violence in the 2 ½ civil war, saying it is "imperative to have a peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible."
North Korea said on Tuesday it has moved strategic rocket and artillery units into top combat position in preparation for a strike against the United States.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously for new and tougher sanctions against North Korea, demonstrating unified anger at the Asian country for its recent harsh rhetoric against its enemies, possibly threatening "preemptive nuclear attack."
