The US and Iranian presidents, Barack Obama and Hassan Rowhani, came agonisingly close to a historic handshake on Tuesday, officials said. Leaders from Iran and the US have not met since the 1979...
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- Oct 4, 2013
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25 Sep 2013
French President Francois Hollande urged Iran to make "concrete gestures" on its disputed nuclear programme before meeting Tehran's new leader. Hollande later became the first Western leader to...
4:11AM
25 Sep 2013
The United States and Iran have set the stage for what could become their most serious contacts in a generation, but direct talks on the Iranian nuclear programme are likely to be slow, difficult...
4:01AM
24 Sep 2013
Nearly a year before the world woke up to images of Syrians dying in a chemical weapons attack, Samantha Power was quietly pushing US President Barack Obama for a military strike to stop the "...
5:41PM
10 Sep 2013
Investigators yesterday called on the United Nations to reopen a probe into the 1961 death of UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold, citing "persuasive evidence" his plane was shot down.
2:26AM
28 Aug 2013
The United Nations will approach Washington over a report by a German magazine that US intelligence spied on video conferences by top UN officials.
2:48AM
Syria has agreed to allow UN inspectors to visit three sites to investigate accusations of chemical weapons use during the country’s 2-year-old civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
3:49AM
Pakistan teenager Malala Yousafzai told the United Nations yesterday that she would not be silenced by terrorists, in her first public speech since being shot by the Taliban. "They thought that...
2:00AM
UN health officials have urged Asian governments to get rid of what they say are punitive laws that hinder the battle against HIV and Aids by discriminating against high-risk groups and deterring...
2:05AM
The 62-year-old ran against five other candidates and secured the required two-thirds of the vote from Unido's 53-member board in Vienna on Monday, China Central Television reported.
7:33AM
China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali.
7:58PM
Russia’s foreign minister said on Friday he did not understand the international uproar created by Moscow’s continuing weapons co-operation with regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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