New York: Negotiations among governments to reform the UN Security Council may enter a new phase this year with serious talks to meet demands to enlarge the body to include countries like India, Germa

New York: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the demolition of a dilapidated hotel in East Jerusalem by Israeli authorities has heightened tensions in the Palestinian neighbourhood i

New Delhi: India's entry into the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member has kicked off a flurry of consultations with the world powers over issues related to the powerful world body, includin

ABUJA: The Ivory Coast crisis remains deadlocked, the leader of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday, as talks were under way to press strongman Laurent Gbagbo to step down as preside

United Nations: After a gap of 19 years, India today formally took its place in the UN Security Council as a new non-permanent member for a two-year term, a position from which it is expected to pu

Abidjain: The United Nations peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast rejected isolated leader Laurent Gbagbo's demand that it pack its bags on Sunday, at the risk of provoking a showdown with his hardline s

Sydney: India should not push for urgent reform of the United Nations Security Council as the world will come forward and ask New Delhi to join the UNSC as a permanent member in next 15-20 years, acco

Islamabad: Pakistan should make all efforts to prevent India from getting a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council so that it does not get the power to block the world body's resolution

Washington, Aug. 7: The US in conjunction with the United Nations has designated al-Qaeda-linked HuJI as a foreign terrorist organisation and slapped sanctions on its commander Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri

The United Nations has rejected reopening of the independent probe into the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto as the the work is "complete", but UN chief, Mr Ban ki-Moon, will re