UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a message on Sunday, calling for increased efforts to advance the rights of individuals with autism, in honor of World Autism Awareness Day, which falls on April 2 annually.
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Flash floods caused by heavy rains killed at least 21 people, displaced over 100,000 more and destroyed property in the past two weeks in southern Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Monday.
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The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) marked a year of service in Somalia on Saturday with a renewed commitment to strengthening cooperation and building partnerships to enhance peace and stability in the country.
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The Kremlin on Tuesday regretted the decision made by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reject Russia's request for an independent investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline explosions.
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Russia has no plan to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO), despite attempts by some countries to "squeeze" it out, a Russian diplomat said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Monday.
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Somalia said more than 3,000 al-Shabab militants have been killed and 3,700 more sustained injuries since the government started a military operation against the terror group six months ago.
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The Afghan caretaker government has dismissed Washington's claim over the alleged stronger presence of Daesh, or Islamic State group (IS), in Afghanistan as utterly fabricated.
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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday night called on the government to immediately halt its plan to overhaul the country's judiciary, citing a threat to national security.
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A top Iranian official said Iran and Iraq have agreed on new mechanisms, enabling the former to use its frozen oil and electricity exports money in the latter's banks, official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres late on Wednesday called for action to stop anti-Muslim hatred on the occasion of International Day to Combat Islamophobia.
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A total of 22 Islamic State militants, including some of the group's leaders, were killed in an operation in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said on Sunday.
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Introducing bacteria to a tumor microenvironment (TME) creates a state of acute inflammation that triggers the immune system's primary responder cells to attack the tumor, according to a study led by Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
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The Lebanese foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the recent deadly Israeli raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
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After five consecutive below-average rains, the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is expanding and deepening, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has deployed its permanent monitoring mission at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant in western Ukraine, thus completing the establishment of its representation in the country, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday.
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Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily on Monday stressed the need for holding credible and inclusive elections to restore the legitimacy of the Libyan institutions.
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Two-thirds of chief economists from private and public sectors expect a global recession in 2023, according to a survey released on Monday at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland.
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US President Joe Biden said late on Tuesday that he was "surprised" that government records were taken to one of his former private offices.
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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday warned Syrian opposition groups against "provocations" amid ongoing protests over normalization talks between Ankara and Damascus.
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Ukraine's foodstuff exports reached 17 million metric tons since August under a deal on the export of grain and fertilizers from Black Sea ports, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday.
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