#United Nations (UN)

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 ...

The United Nations is hopeful of progress and committed to efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem, its undersecretary-general for peace operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Sunday. “We certainly hope for ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman of his readiness to support efforts towards a solution to the Cyprus problem. “I would like to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping force (Unficyp) in Cyprus and special representative of the UN secretary-general Khassim Diagne for the first time ...

The United States is considering a proposal for humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza that would replace the controversial U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to a copy of the ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne, who will serve as the UN’s new special representative and head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) has arrived in Cyprus to formally assume ...

Cyprus is “proof of the vital importance of respect for international law”, the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael said. Addressing the UN general assembly’s ...

The United Nations plans to ramp up its delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza in the first 60 days of a ceasefire in the enclave, a top UN official said on ...

North Korea will never give up its nuclear program, the country’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, describing it as “tantamount ...