#United Nations (UN)

France recognised a Palestinian state at a world summit in New York on Monday, nearly two years into the war in Gaza, joining Western allies such as Britain and Canada ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa renewed his call on Monday for Washington to formally lift US sanctions imposed under the 2019 Caesar Act while visiting New York to attend the first UN ...

Nato allies accused Russia at the United Nations on Monday of violating the alliance’s air space in Estonia and Poland – actions that Britain said risked triggering an armed conflict. ...

By Malak Benslama-Dabdoub The UN’s independent international commission of inquiry has just released a report that may go down as one of the most significant documents in modern international ...

A new poll of over 36,300 people worldwide showed huge support for more international cooperation on issues including trade, global health, climate and poverty, but gave largely failing grades to institutions ...

The United States joined Western allies in a joint statement on Friday to express concern about Russia’s drone incursion into Poland and accuse Moscow of violating international law and ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly voted to endorse a declaration outlining “tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps” towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of ...

The leaders of Cyprus’ two communities “have to make decisions” for there to be progress towards the implementation of new confidence-building measures between Cyprus’ two sides, United Nations envoy Maria ...

The US said on Friday it would bar entry to some Palestinian officials seeking to attend next month’s UN General Assembly in New York, after several US allies pledged ...

“There has been no change” when it comes to crossing points, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. He was asked to comment on reports before attending the World Conference ...

Cyprus’ permanent representative at the United Nations Maria Michael on Tuesday night told a security council debate that sexual violence during Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974 “remains an ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set to seek the consent of the UN Security Council for the replacement of UN special representative and head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia on Tuesday that he has significant concerns about patterns of certain forms of sexual violence by their armed and security forces, ...

Around 900 to 1,000 Turkish Cypriots travelled by bus through the Limnitis crossing point on Friday to attend August 8 ceremony marking 61 years since the deadly bombing of Tillyria in 1964. The passage of ...

Despite not seeing any real negotiating framework develop in the four years he has been on the island, departing UN envoy Colin Stewart on Sunday said he thought the Cyrus ...

Even though it is recognised as a state by 143 of the 197 states of the UN TV pictures of starving babies dying of hunger in Gaza was too much for France, ...

A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: UN reports are not widely read. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefed countries on Friday on the ...

The United States on Monday rejected as a “publicity stunt” a United Nations conference that brought dozens of ministers together to work toward a two-state solution between Israel and the ...

Peaceful settlement “is not merely the absence of armed conflict”, Cyprus’ foreign ministry permanent secretary Andreas Kakouris told a United Nations debate on peace and security in the early hours ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the government achieved three key goals at the recent expanded meeting on Cyprus held in New York, with the most significant being the ...

Israel has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council scrap a commission investigating rights violations in the Palestinian territories and Israel, accusing the body of bias, in a letter seen ...

The informal meeting on the Cyprus problem in a broader format begins on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York. The two-day meeting starts at 7pm local time (2am Cyprus ...

The foreign ministry on Saturday said it “welcomes” the latest six-monthly reports penned by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus and the UN’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will be travelling to New York later this month for the expanded meeting on the Cyprus problem without the political parties, it was announced on Thursday after ...