AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST

The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›

SCORCHING 'HEAT DOME' OVER MIDDLE EAST SEES TEMPERATURES SOAR TO 165F IN IRAN

But some of the most affluent figures in the Middle East are blissfully unaware of the scorching heat, such as Saudia Arabia's King Salman... READ MORE›

AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY

MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›

AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'

An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›

EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES

In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›

GUY THAT STOOD UP FOR FARAGE AGAINST BRAND WAS UKIP MEP S BROTHER

Several Egyptian human rights advocates have left the country, saying privately that they feared arrest amid the crackdown on dissent... READ MORE›

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH

Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›

GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS

In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›

POPE CALLS UNFETTERED CAPITALISM 'THE DUNG OF THE DEVIL'

He also called for an end to what he said was the genocide of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond... READ MORE›

UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS

We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX

As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA

To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›

A CROSS TO BEAR: THE VANISHING CHRISTIANS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Rifugio Christians of the Middle East by Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi Schilt Publishing, 29.95, Amsterdam ... READ MORE›

UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS

The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›

70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE

70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›

ISIL OIL TRUCKS, WORTH $11 MILLION, DESTROYED IN MASSIVE AIRSTRIKE

U.S.-led coalition aircraft destroyed an estimated 11 million worth of oil and trucks this weekend... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS

In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›

ISIS SNIPER IS DESTROYED BY BRITISH MISSILE DURING ONE OF 17 DEADLY RAF BOMBING RAIDS IN IRAQ

On Sunday November 15, 36 hours after ISIS struck in Paris, an RAF Reaper drone destroyed a terrorist car in Northern Iraq with a Hellfire missile... READ MORE›

UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS

For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015

The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT

We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›

GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGES TO DELIVER 'SEVERE HIT' TO ECONOMIES, WORLD BANK WARNS

The Middle East, north Africa, central Asia and south Asia due to suffer biggest economic hit from water scarcity as climate change takes hold, report finds... READ MORE›

UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN ENEMIES FIND UNEASY REFUGE TOGETHER AT A UN BASE

Any trip to and from the base requires an armed escort of more than a dozen United Nations peacekeepers... READ MORE›

UN PEACEKEEPERS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING STREET CHILDREN IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

The United Nations did not identify which country the troops were from but a UN official said it was an African contingent... READ MORE›

United Nations personnel in Camp Faouar went into shelter, the report says... READ MORE›

SYRIA SAID TO AGREE TO FOOD AID FOR STARVING TOWN

The medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that 23 patients had died of starvation at one health center in Madaya since Dec. 1... READ MORE›

THE MIDDLE EAST IS NOW EUROPE'S BACKYARD

Whether it be terrorism, migration or geopolitics, the wider Middle East is now intruding into the European consciousness on a day-to-day basis, says Jonathan Marcus... READ MORE›