Iran has rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a "cancerous tumour" forever.
The UN Security Council is beginning negotiations on the Palestinian bid for UN membership as pressure mounts for new Palestinian-Israeli talks.
President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestine will not hold peace talks without a "complete halt" to Israeli settlement building.
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/ 23 September 2011
As the Palestinian bid for statehood comes to a head at the United Nations, Hamas remains split on whether to support the controversial move.
US and European powers stepped up a diplomatic scramble on Sunday to avoid a UN showdown on the Palestinian plan to seek full UN membership.
The United States has decided to fight to the bitter end to convince the Palestinians to abandon their bid for United Nations membership.
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/ 5 September 2011
Famine has spread to another Somali region and the UN has warned more areas will become affected in the next four months.
Libya’s new leadership says it is committed to democracy, while it prioritises areas for spending the billions released from Gaddafi’s frozen assets.
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/ 3 September 2011
Iraqi officals will investigate allegations that US soldiers handcuffed and executed women and children during a raid in 2006.
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/ 3 September 2011
UN leader Ban Ki-moon says he has concerns about Australian’s treatment of asylum seekers after its plans to transfer them to Malaysia, were blocked.
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/ 2 September 2011
There’s something insane about people who claim the Libyan revolution was foisted on Africa by the West, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
Families are searching the rubble from a bomb blast at UN headquarters in Nigeria for loved ones.
At least 18 people have been found dead after a large explosion struck a United Nations building in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja.
Hotels and guesthouses in Durban are out to make a killing from the United Nation’s climate change conference, COP17.
The UN says famine is set to spread to two new southern Somali regions with millions of people reeling from extreme drought.
Planned steps to boost global nuclear safety after Japan’s Fukushima disaster will not lead to any major increase in costs for reactor operators.
Tanks rumbled into Homs a day after security forces killed at least 33 protesters across Syria, adding urgency to a UN mission expected this weekend.
Syrian forces have killed dozens of protesters despite assurances by President Bashar al-Assad to Ban Ki-moon that a crackdown was over.
Extrajudicial killings that took place over the past four weeks in Côte d’Ivoire, have been blamed by locals on pro-Ouattara fighters, the UN says.
Amid UN reports that famine has spread further through Somalia, South Africa has been criticised for not doing enough to help the region.
The governments of the US and other countries, major defence firms and the UN have all been targeted in a massive cyber spying campaign, McAfee says.
Somali refugees are falling victim to rape and assault as the region endures its worst drought in over 60 years.
The UN has formally declared parts of Somalia to be in the grip of famine, a move hailed by rebels who now say they will allow aid to be distributed.
Africa accounts for just 1% of the world’s manufacturing and needs to boost the sector if it wants to reduce poverty, a United Nations report says.
South Sudan’s declaration of independence on July 9 could end in one of three possible scenarios: A deal with North Sudan, a messy divorce or war.
After being raped by government troops, women in the eastern DRC face the further pain and humiliation of being repudiated by their husbands.
The UN rights chief has expressed disappointment that China failed to arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges.
Ten million people in the Horn of Africa have been hit by the worst drought in 60 years, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The IEC is one of 36 public organisations worldwide to receive the UN Public Service Award for its innovative use of a results slip scanning.
Greenpeace’s <i>Kumi Naidoo</i> writes from a prison in Greenland about the effect deep water drilling in the Arctic could have on climate change.
The UN General Assembly is poised to elect South Korean Ban Ki-moon to a second term as the UN’s secretary general.
Eastern Cape and the United Nations have signed a deal that focuses on building green economy and earning carbon credits.