The International Day of Peace celebration is held at the UN headquarters, where Csaba Krösi, the President of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session, rings the Peace Bell (21 September)
Scores of hospitals and clinics have been bombed during Russia’s war on Ukraine, and there have been numerous power cuts that have the potential to shut off life-saving machines. Medical aid groups are using a Kenyan-made equipment for premature infants that operates without electricity to save helpless newborns in war-torn nations
A United Nations special rapporteur called on Bangladesh’s government to stop harassing environmental activists under a notorious online security law, as he wrapped up a 10-day visit to the South Asian nation on Thursday
At least six people have died and 2,457 have been infected in Myanmar since the start of the month amid an outbreak of a new omicron variant of COVID-19, the junta’s Ministry of Health announced Thursday
Barbara Woodward, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the UN, addresses at the second plenary session of the General Assembly, which is being hosted to pay tribute to the memory of Queen Elizabeth II
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. indicated in a television interview that he would shun his predecessor’s hardcore approach to fighting drugs, but said he still intended to shield former leader Rodrigo Duterte from international prosecution over alleged extrajudicial killings
Faced with falling birth rates, authorities in Anhui are gearing up to remove bans on unmarried women having children
United Nations Security Council meeting on the Middle East situation is presided over by Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of September (Syria) on September
According to experts, Ukraine’s surprise counteroffensive in the country’s northeast stunned the Russian army, dealing its adversary a significant operational loss
Hundreds of people were waiting to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar, a small group of newly arrived Rohingya told BenarNews, amid fierce fighting close to the border that has sparked diplomatic protests over reports of artillery and mortar shells landing in Bangladeshi territory