united nations

The Palestinian flag was raised for the first time on Tuesday above a UN agency, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris,…

TYRE, Lebanon — A bomb exploded near a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeping patrol on Friday, wounding five…

  MEXICO CITY — Mexico uncovered and stopped an international plot to smuggle late Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi's son Saadi into the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has appeared at the International Criminal Court, the first former…

Zara, an Afghan mother of seven, doesn't know what to tell her children when they ask about dinner. "I simply…

GENEVA — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Friday for the international community to take…

JERUSALEM — Israel says it is releasing tens of millions of dollars owed to the Palestinians. Israel froze the transfer…

JERUSALEM — Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years,…

An official source at Cairo International Airport has denied reports that the airport raised its security alert after receiving a…

French proposals for "humanitarian corridors" in Syria to help civilians affected by eight months of unrest are not justified by…