Secretary-General António Guterres,meets with the board members of the UN Foundation.Hans Vestberg, Laura Turner Seydel, Mark Malloch-Brown, Elizabeth Cousens, António Guterres, Valerie Amos, Eddie Ndopu, and Marti G. Subrahmanyam are shown in the photo from left to right
The Kyiv Independent was founded three months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since its founding, the publication has fought for editorial freedom as well as staff safety
Bangladesh’s main opposition party is holding weekly protest rallies drawing tens of thousands of people who are demanding that a “neutral” caretaker administration be set up to oversee the next general election in order to guarantee a free and fair vote.
Myanmar’s ruling junta is shoring up ties with pro-military political groups in the run-up to next year’s elections in a bid to change the constitution to ensure its long-term rule in the Southeast Asia nation following its February 2021 coup
At the UN’s headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres (left at podium) briefs reporters on the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Ethiopia, and the next UN Climate Conference (COP27)
Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, which serves as a base for Ukrainian forces fighting to retake Kherson and defend the seaport of Odesa from the Russians, has been particularly difficult for those living there as a result of Russia’s invasion of their country.
Mary Anne Domingo, whose husband and son were killed in the Philippine drug war, said she intended to make a statement as she sold skewers of grilled food to people honoring saints or dead loved ones at a cemetery here.phi
As was typical in other countries during pandemic, families are denied ritual burials for loved ones. By Shohret Hoshur for RFA Uyghur Authorities in Xinjiang collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a stqrict coronavirus lockdown but did not inform the families of the deceased about whether …
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Two women who had fled Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion took refuge in the Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria
Fifty nations at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced China for its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region