One meal a day, no shelter, and no drinking water are only some of the difficult living conditions that indigenous Warao families from Venezuela are facing in remote locations across Guyana, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned.
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Global casualties from anti-personnel landmines were "exceptionally high" last year, with Syrians and Afghans worst-hit, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday.
According to Landmine Monitor 2021, the number of victims rose by 20 per (...)
The United Nations General Assembly and Security Council on Friday elected a new judge to sit on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN.
Hillary Charlesworth, from Australia, will replace James Crawford, (...)
United Kingdom plans to remove restrictions such as a travel "red list" of seven countries and hotel quarantine due to a declining COVID-19 threat from abroad, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday.
UK ministers will meet on Thursday to consider (...)
The remaining seven countries on England's COVID-19 travel red list will be removed from next Monday, BBC reported.
Fully-vaccinated arrivals from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Haiti and Venezuela will no longer have to (...)
An eerie silence lingers over Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, according to CNN.
Footsteps echo through empty hallways. The normal beeps and whirs of hospital equipment are absent. The organized chaos (...)
The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be "the catalyst for a profound transformation" of WHO's (...)
In his speech to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Monday, Fayssal Mekdad, minister for foreign affairs and expatriates of Syria, reaffirmed his country's commitment to combat terrorism and aim to 'restore security and (...)
Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the president of Cuba, underlined the importance of multilateralism and the UN in his speech to the high-level General Debate at the General Assembly on Thursday, during which he condemned the foreign policy of the (...)
Norway Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, said on Wednesday the world is contending with three crises at the same time: a climate crisis, a health crisis, and an economic crisis.
"All of them call for a coordinated response. All of them underline why we (...)
President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday said his country was the victim of a "fierce campaign" of permanent and systematic aggression through economic and financial sanctions coming from the United States and its allies.
"Financial accounts are being (...)
Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it's expected (...)
The independence of Venezuela's justice system has been "deeply eroded", to such an extent that it plays a significant role in the state's repression of government opponents, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Thursday.
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At least 13 people have been killed in flooding after heavy rain in Merida state in western Venezuela.
"We can speak of eleven dead as a result of torrential rain in the city of Tovar and of two children who died in the municipality of Pinto Salina (...)
At least 304 people were killed and hundreds were injured and missing after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday.
The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological (...)
Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said that Saudi Arabia aspires to lead many developed countries, including the United States and Russia, in carbon solutions. Saudi Arabia will neither be part of the carbon emission problem nor be (...)
Unilateral coercive measures by some governments are denying many people around the world the right to personal development, as well as holding back sustainable national development, four independent UN human rights experts said on Wednesday.
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Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to eat, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.
WFP estimates that a record 270 million people worldwide (...)
Vulnerable Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 health and socio-economic crisis, urgently need greater support from the international community, UN humanitarians said on Friday, ahead of a donor (...)
Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said recent market developments confirmed that the decision to gradually increase production, made in April, was "the right decision", as the OPEC+ meeting on Tuesday concluded with a solution upon which (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will allow the entry of travelers from 11 countries starting from May 30, following a suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday, citing an official source at the Ministry of (...)
The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes stood at $67.32 a barrel on Thursday, 27th May, compared to $67.47 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations, WAM reported.
The OPEC Reference Basket (ORB) is made up of the following (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has warned citizens against traveling to 13 countries without permission due to security circumstances and the instability in a number of countries, while the continuation of the coronavirus pandemic and the spread of new (...)
An official source, at the Ministry of Interior said that in furtherance to the ministry's statement on warning to travel to a number of countries, and in keenness of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on safety and security of the citizens willing to (...)
The latest shipwreck in the Caribbean has highlighted the need for safe migration pathways, particularly in the COVID-19 era when many borders remain closed, two UN agencies said on Monday.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the (...)
