North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear arsenal and missile capabilities over the past year, despite international sanctions imposed on Pyongyang, according to a United Nations confidential report released to the French news agency on Saturday. “Cyber-attacks, especially on cryptocurrencies, remain a significant source of revenue for the North Korean government,” the statement said, […]
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UN: Taliban and Islamic State suspected of more than 100 killings in Afghanistan
More than 100 extrajudicial killings of former government employees have taken place since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, according to allegations considered credible by the United Nations. More than two-thirds of the killings were reportedly committed by de facto authorities or their collaborators, according to an internal report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]
Colombia: UN motorcade targeted
A United Nations convoy was attacked by gunmen and vehicles set on fire in southeastern Colombia on Thursday, its mission said. In a statement, the UN mission in the Latin American country, tasked with monitoring the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement between the then government and the former FARC organization, “strongly condemned” the attack, […]
Oil spill in Peru: UN team travels to country to help deal with disaster
A team of nine UN experts arrived in Lima on Monday to help authorities deal with an oil spill in Peru linked to a volcanic eruption in the Tonga Islands, UN spokesman Stefan Duzarric said. “They will make a rapid assessment of the social and environmental impact of the disaster, helping the authorities to manage […]
UN: Minsk hides information on forced diversion of Ryanair aircraft
The United Nations report on the forced diversion of a Ryanair passenger plane last year found that the bomb threat made by the plane in Minsk was “deliberately false” and that Belarus had withheld critical information from the team investigating the incident. sparked international outcry over what Western capitals denounced as an act of state […]
Proposal to Merkel for a consultative role at the UN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel that she take on an advisory role in the organization, according to sources quoted by the German news agency. Mr Guterres has called on Mr Merkel to take over the presidency of an advisory body headed by former heads of state or government, […]
UN: The Taliban exclude women and girls from social and public life
The leadership of the fundamentalist Sunni Taliban movement is instituting large-scale, systematic gender discrimination and violence against women and girls in Afghanistan, a UN team of 36 UN human rights experts warned on Monday. “We are concerned about the ongoing and systematic efforts to exclude women from the social, economic and political spheres of the […]
World Economic Forum: The secretary general urges business to help poor countries in this ‘time of need’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today called on business leaders to support developing countries in this “time of need” by providing access to Covid-19 vaccines, helping to combat the climate crisis and reforming the global economic system. . Speaking at the Digital World Economic Forum in Davos, Guterres said: “In all three of these areas, we […]
Ethiopia: At least 108 dead in Tigray airstrikes since January
At least 108 civilians have been killed in airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force in the Tigray region since early January, the United Nations said today, citing possible war crimes. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expresses its concern over “the deeply disturbing information we continue to receive about civilian casualties […]
Eight countries are losing their right to vote in the UN General Assembly until recently
Iran and Venezuela are among eight countries that lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Wednesday until recently. In a letter to the UN General Assembly released yesterday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres clarified that the minimum amount to be paid by the Islamic Republic to regain this right is $ […]
