Browsing: Asia Pacific
The 28 March quakes killed over 3,800 people and damaged or destroyed more than 55,000 homes across multiple regions, including…
Addressing journalists outside the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres expressed deep concern over deteriorating relations…
In a note to correspondents issued by his spokesperson on Tuesday, Secretary-General António Guterres called for military restraint from both…
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari described a troubling pattern of weapons testing and…
“I hate earthquakes. Earthquakes took my mother and my aunt away,” five-year-old Khin Yadanar told the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), after…
The UN chief’s statement, released on Saturday, came shortly after news broke of a decision by the two countries to…
Many women came to the clinic who had walked multiple hours to receive maternal care – some of them with…
António Guterres issued the warning in a video message to the inaugural Sagarmatha Sambaad, or “Everest Dialogue,” convened by the…
When they eventually did, her mother said to her, “If you are going to die anyway, better to be shot…
Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.…
It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals of various nationalities are forced to carry out fraud in the…
According to reports, one boat carrying 267 people from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar, sank on…
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic…
Since then, “there has been no end to the violence, even though thousands have been killed and thousands more injured,”…
The plane – a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – crashed into a medical college about a mile from the city’s main…