The deterioration of human rights in Belarus continues to engulf the country in a climate of fear and arbitrary rule, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Wednesday.
Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council in (...)
Under the beating Tanzanian sun, Lossim Lazzaro nervously looks over his farm.
He slowly pours livestock manure on his crops, in a last-ditch attempt to help them grow.
Lazzaro owns five acres of land and was once a successful tomato farmer in the (...)
RIYADH — The travel ban for Saudi citizens to 11 countries, including five Arab countries, is still in force, according to the General Directorate of Passports.
The ban was imposed following the spread of COVID-19 pandemic cases in those (...)
Lithuania has banned the transit of some goods through its territory from Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad.
It includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology, accounting for around 50% of all goods that Kaliningrad (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted a temporary ban on direct and indirect travel to Ethiopia, Turkey, Vietnam and India, an official source at the Ministry of Interior said.
The source stated that the lifting of the ban was based on the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has lifted the direct and indirect ban on Saudi citizens from traveling to Indonesia, the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday.
The Ministry said the decision to lift the travel ban follows the continuous assessment of the (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he is ready to support the smooth export of Ukrainian grain via the country's Black Sea ports.
"You are quite welcome to export [wheat] via sea ports under Ukrainian control, first of all via the Black (...)
As the war in Ukraine rages, Serbia's president announced that he has secured an "extremely favorable" natural gas deal with Russia during a telephone conversation on Sunday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Serbian President Aleksandar (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi citizens have been banned from traveling to 16 countries due to COVID-19 cases in those countries, The General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) said on Saturday.
The list of countries includes Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, (...)
"When war is waged, people go hungry," Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Some 60 percent of the world's (...)
"When war is waged, people go hungry," Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Some 60 percent of the world's (...)
Russia's invasion of Ukraine could cause global food shortages in the coming months, the UN has warned.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices.
The world could face famines (...)
Hunger levels around the world are at "a new high", the UN chief said on Wednesday, in a call to action to fight the current surge in global food insecurity.
During a ministerial meeting on global hunger taking pace at UN Headquarters in New York, (...)
Almost 76 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, countless civilians remain caught up in the horror and destruction of war, UN rights investigators said on Tuesday.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirmed that more than 3,380 (...)
Finland and Sweden are expected to reveal in the coming days whether they will ask to join the NATO military alliance. Russia's war in Ukraine has sparked an urgent rethink in both countries.
Coming out in favor of joining would be a historic (...)
Every May 9, Europeans celebrate Europe Day, a commemorative occasion that honors the starting point of the continent's political and economic integration, and the peace achieved as a result of the decades-long collective effort.
The celebration (...)
Briefing the Security Council on his shuttle diplomacy last week in Russia and Ukraine, Secretary-General António Guterres declared that he "did not mince words" during meetings with Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy, on the need to end the brutal (...)
A key ally of Russia, authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, has defended the war in Ukraine while indicating it has not gone to plan. He told the AP news agency that the operation had "dragged on".
Belarus shares a border with (...)
Sofia Sapega, a Russian law student arrested with her Belarusian dissident boyfriend last year when Belarus forced a Ryanair airliner to land, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, Russian state news agency TASS (...)
The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) was named on Tuesday as the winner of this year's UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, following the international jury's recommendation.
The BAJ was formed in 1995 as a non-governmental (...)
Three weeks since his release, Volodymyr Khropun still looks visibly shaken by the trauma he's endured. A Red Cross volunteer, he was captured by Russian forces, and deported to Russia.
On 18 March, Volodymyr was driving a school bus to the village (...)
Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending their countries' natural gas deliveries starting on Wednesday.
The two countries said Tuesday that Russian energy giant Gazprom had informed them it was halting gas supplies.
The suspensions (...)
Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year because of the invasion of Ukraine.
Men's world number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia and women's world number four Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus are the highest-ranked (...)
Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told US President Joe Biden that India was ready to ship food to the rest of the world following supply shocks and rising prices due to the war in Ukraine.
Modi said India had "enough food" for its 1.4 (...)
Ukrainian officials have rejected demands by Russian forces that defenders of the city of Mariupol should lay down their arms.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in an interview with ABC that Ukrainian forces still in the city would "fight to the (...)
