#United Nations (UN)

Several candidates running to be the next head of the United Nations called for a strengthening of human rights and respect for international law and bolstering the organisation through reforms ...

Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the ...

Cyprus’ candidate for the presidency of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, received 91 votes in the election held at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, losing ...

President Nikos Christodoulides expressed optimism on Thursday that there is a “window of opportunity” for the resumption of Cyprus problem talks before the end of the year. Speaking after a ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, after the last Christodoulides-Erhurman meeting on May 8, appears to be placing the new initiative on the Cyprus problem after the parliamentary elections and ...

A U.N. war crimes court said on Thursday it had denied a bid for early release by Ratko Mladic, the 84-year-old Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and crimes ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that developments in the Cyprus problem could lead to a concrete settlement plan before the end of 2026, revealing that a new United Nations initiative ...

The United Nations has warned that Cyprus risks breaching international law over obstacles surrounding the Imagine bicommunal peace education programme, with three UN Special Rapporteurs raising concerns over delays, political ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said that he expects for the date of an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, to be announced “soon”, with the meeting set to involve ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will hold his next meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman next Friday, May 8, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. He wrote in a post on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that Cyprus will continue to sign international agreements regardless of external criticism, stressing that the Republic acts as both an EU and UN member ...

Former Greek Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem Andreas Mavroyiannis was on Monday elected as chairman of the United Nations’ International Law Commission. He will serve in the post ...

Chile’s former president, Michelle Bachelet, underlined her support for women’s rights in her bid to head the United Nations, despite calls for Washington to veto her candidacy due ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Saturday met United Nations undersecretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on the sidelines of the Antalya diplomacy forum. According to Erhurman’s office, the meeting ...

The United Nations security council has been briefed on the latest developments in the buffer zone village of Pyla, according to reports on Thursday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that ...

China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday and the U.S. ambassador to ...

Cyprus has reported a new series of violations of its national airspace, international air traffic regulations within the Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR) and its territorial waters by Turkish air ...

President Nikos Christodoulides expressed optimism on Sunday regarding the restarting of negotiations on the Cyprus problem. Speaking after participating in a charity run in Ayia Napa, he said he expects ...

More than 1,700 people were killed, nearly 200,000 displaced and multiple actors including Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups committed acts that may amount to war crimes during a ...

History repeated itself as farce at the White House last Thursday during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for talks with President Trump at the Oval Office. As ...

Gender equality commissioner Josie Christodolou called on the community of nations to commit to providing women unhindered access to a legal system safeguarding their rights in view of what she ...

By Khassim Diagne For many people in Cyprus today, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus – Unficyp – feels like a familiar part of the landscape. The buffer zone, the blue ...

Israel and the United States will not stop their operations against Iran until their objectives are met and will do everything necessary to ensure Tehran does not have nuclear capabilities, ...

The U.N. expert on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, denounced on Thursday what she described as “toxic” attacks impacting her personal life and work, after a number of European ...