Special envoy Kofi Annan is to return to Syria 'very soon,' UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday, as the UN Security Council aimed to close ranks on a statement to bolster his mission.

Ban's announ

The United States has said it gained United Nations’ support to push Sri Lanka to allow an independent probe into government atrocities carried out in country's 26-year civil war against the Tamil Tig

Two UN peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti, a media report on Tuesday said.

The soldiers were found guil

Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, is set to meet President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to press for an immediate end to violence that has killed thousands of people in the countr

A corrections officer is facing bigamy charges after authorities said a Washington woman using Facebook discovered that she and a potential 'friend' were married to him at the same time.

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Illegal Internet pharmacies are selling illicit drugs and prescription medicines online and are increasingly targeting young people, a U.N. drug agency warned on Tuesday.

The International Narcotics

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has been appointed as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria tasked with engaging with all relevant interlocutors within and outside the troubled co

The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the February 13 terrorist attack on Israeli embassy staff in India, saying any acts of terrorism are 'criminal and unjustifiable'.

A statement issued b

The United Nations on Wednesday said the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will soon conclude probe into the 'inappropriate' handling of the Muslim religious material in Kabul

A team of the United Nations Development Programme is arriving here next month to study Kerala CM Oommen Chandy’s innovative practices in governance and transparency initiatives.

Geraldine J. Fras