#United Nations (UN)

Global problems will not be solved by one power “calling the shots” or by splitting the world into rival spheres, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday in comments ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to discuss the resumption of negotiations on Tuesday. Holguin is scheduled to ...

Hundreds of people are feared dead or missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, with reports of multiple shipwrecks in the last ten days following bad weather, the UN ...

The UN rights body condemned Iran on Friday for rights abuses and mandated an investigation into a recent crackdown on anti-government protests that killed thousands of people. “I call on ...

The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Islamic State, after the ...

By Dawoud Abu Alkas, Catherine Cartier, Edward Carron and Rami Ayyub As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his Board of Peace, originally intended to help end the Gaza war but which he now sees having a wider role that Europe and ...

The Cypriot government is waiting for the European Union to formulate a common position before deciding whether it will join United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace, ...

Two Israeli airstrikes killed five people, including a 16-year-old, in Deir al-Balah on Thursday, said local health authorities. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for ...

Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing ...

A review of the year and predicting the shape of things to come in 2026 and beyond must begin with events at home. The Cyprus Mail is of course a Cypriot ...

Cyprus has voted in favour of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination after a resolution was put to the United Nations’ general assembly’s third committee in New ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Sunday night denied telephoning Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during last week’s tripartite meeting on the Cyprus problem, saying that he had instead ...

Cyprus on Friday welcomed a reference to United Nations security council resolutions in a recent joint statement, calling it a key step in aligning negotiations with international law. The announcement ...

The Greek Cypriot negotiator, Menelaos Menelaou, and the representative of the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Dana are meeting on Wednesday, as preparations continue for talks between the two leaders in ...

The United Nations appealed on Monday for a 2026 aid budget only half the size of what it had hoped for this year, acknowledging a plunge in donor funding at a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday said he is ready to take part in an expanded informal conference on the Cyprus issue even before the end of 2025.  He made the statement ...

The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a “summary ...

Cyprus is determined to combat human trafficking and in this direction it stands ready to continue to actively contribute to global efforts, along with implementing its own national strategy, special ...

Progress at the climate summit COP30, taking place at Belem in Brazil and being attended by more than 190 countries, has been slow and patchy. Agreements on most of the contentious ...

Talks at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil were disrupted on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering an evacuation just as negotiators were hunkering down to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said his sole objective was to resume Cyprus talks ahead of his first meeting with the new Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday. “I go with ...

Cooperation is possible even when negotiations are paused, Unficyp spokesperson Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday, highlighting the United Nations’ ongoing efforts in Cyprus. Under the auspices of UNDP Cyprus, a ...

Cyprus has reiterated its support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Maria Michail expressing concern over “external threats, coercive ...