About 20 members of a Jewish sect held at a facility in Mexico after a police raid on their jungle base have fled.
Footage showed men, women, and children streaming out of the site in Huixtla, in the west, on Wednesday night.
They had been there (...)
GENEVA — Saudi Arabia has been elected for membership of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 2022-2024, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The election took place on Thursday at the plenary session of the 66th IAEA (...)
The Palestinians have called a proposal by the UK to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a "blatant violation of international law".
UK PM Liz Truss is said to have told her Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, about the review while at the (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for amplifying the voices of Indigenous women, which is critical to achieving a just future for all people.
His appeal comes in a message to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous (...)
At least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned truck on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.
A fire official said 16 people, including four children, had also been taken to hospital.
The survivors were "hot to the touch" and suffering from (...)
War in Ukraine continues to cause mayhem and "destroy the lives of many", and it is everyone's responsibility to limit the global food, fuel and financial crisis" that it has sustained, the UN's top rights official told the Human Rights Council on (...)
Thousands of migrants are headed to the US-Mexican border in a caravan timed to coincide with a meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders in Los Angeles.
Some 6,000 people, including many from Venezuela and Central America, have begun walking from the (...)
The United Nations paid tribute to the men and women serving under its flag in some of the most dangerous places in the world during a ceremony in New York on Thursday to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
Secretary-General António (...)
Late Captain Abdelrazakh Hamit Bahar of Chad, was named on Tuesday as the recipient of United Nations Peacekeeping's highest award, for exceptional courage, serving in Mali, which will be presented on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York.
Captain (...)
A former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Hernández, who governed the Central American nation until January, was put on board a US Drug (...)
A DHL cargo jet broke in half after skidding off the runway as it made an emergency landing at Costa Rica's Juan Santamaria International Airport in Costa Rica.
The airport on the outskirts of the capital San Jose was closed after the accident (...)
For several years, the number of people transiting through Mexico, many hoping for a better life in the USA, has continued to grow. The UN team in the country, in close collaboration with the Mexican authorities, is working to ensure that they (...)
A $10 million contribution from the United States will assist the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its work on COVID-19 response and addressing threats to human, animal and environmental health, including future pandemics.
The funding, (...)
Despite repeated calls for concrete international action to reduce the tragic death toll of migrants, dozens were killed in Mexico when a crowded truck overturned in Chiapas on Thursday night, the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) (...)
At least 54 people have been killed and scores more injured after the truck they were being transported in crashed in southern Mexico, BBC reported.
More than 150 people, said to be migrants from Central America, were crammed into the truck's (...)
Lack of opportunities, gangs, organized crime, the ravages of the pandemic and climate change, have triggered the displacement of nearly one million people in Mexico and Central America in recent years.
To deal with the problem more effectively, the (...)
For the past five years, poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence have pushed, on average, some 378,000 Central Americans a year into the United States, according to a new report launched on Tuesday by the UN food relief agency.
A joint (...)
Misk Art Institute (MAI) announced the 5th edition of Misk Art Week, the institute's annual flagship event.
Taking place from December 1-5, Misk Art Week is a central feature in Saudi Arabia's cultural calendar, engaging creatives through dynamic (...)
The Registrar of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has a clear message to States: it is always better to approach the Court to settle a dispute between nations, rather than choosing armed conflict.
The International Court of Justice is the (...)
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm of UN health agency WHO said on Wednesday.
Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Assistant Director at the Pan American (...)
A whistleblower is alleging that top political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security repeatedly instructed career officials to modify intelligence assessments to suit President Donald Trump's agenda by downplaying Russia's efforts to (...)
Central America and Mexico are facing "unprecedented pressure" as the number of people seeking international protection rises and access to asylum and territory is being limited through troubling new border restrictions, the UN Refugee Agency (...)
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last (...)
The United States on Monday announced a plan to distribute the remaining 55 million of the 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that President Joe Biden has pledged to allocate by the end of this month.
For all 80 million doses the administration has (...)
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF — Russia's sovereign wealth fund) announced that the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey has registered the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the country.
The vaccine has been (...)
