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Local police said a large number of attackers riding motorbikes ambushed the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara late Friday, in a possible kidnapping-for-ransom attempt.'The abduc

Journalist Ravi Somaiya suggests in his new book that the United Nations secretary-general in the 1960s, Dag Hammarskjöld, paid a terrible price for his efforts to broker a cease-fire in the blood

The repercussions are endless.Disrupted campaigns against female genital mutilation may result in two million more girls enduring genital cutting, the U.N.said, while reduced access to contraception m

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said more than 550 shelters -- home to about 3,500 people -- were either totally or partially destroyed in the blaze, as well as 150 shops and a facility belonging to a n

Bosnian-born director Jasmila Zbanic, who survived the 1995 war in Sarajevo, wanted to make a film that exposes the bureaucracy of war from a female lens.A lot of the brutality and atrocities in “Q

S.is moving to assert a leading role in the global effort to end the coronavirus pandemic, restoring its ties with the World Health Organization and pledging to contribute to a world-wide vaccination

“In particular: We know China is working across the UN system to drive an authoritarian agenda that stands in opposition to the founding values of the institution — American values,” she is set

toggle caption Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images An egret forages at a wetland in Wanning, south China's Hainan Province, last month.It's the question at the heart of a landmark new r

According to the UN, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Khalid Batarfi, was arrested and his number two, Saad Atef al Awlaqi, died during an 'operation in Ghayda City, Al-Mahrah G

President Joe Biden is having the United States rejoin the U.Human Rights Council, a reversal of the Trump administration's decision to leave the world body.Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced