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YANGON, Myanmar and BANGKOK , January 6 (IPS) - With thousands of civilians killed in years of civil war and over 22,000 political prisoners still behind bars, no one was surprised that early results from Myanmar's first but tightly controlled ...

UNITED NATIONS & JOHANNESBURG, January 5 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern about the immediate future of Venezuela.

VIENNA, Austria, January 5 (IPS) - Consider our political systems not merely as battlegrounds of passions, ideologies and economic interests, but as systematically functioning arrangements of interactions, akin to game theory. In recent decades, we . ...

The Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York to address the US rendition of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, a move that has sent shockwaves through the region and beyond. The UN chief António Guterres told ...

In Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of escalating violence, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions.

As protests in the Iranian capital, Tehran - sparked by increasing economic hardship and a cost-of-living crisis - continued for a ninth day, the UN Secretary-General said he was "deeply saddened by the reported loss of life and injuries," resulting ...

The UN Security Council met on Monday against a sharply altered diplomatic backdrop, following US strikes on the Venezuelan capital and seizure of President Nicolás Maduro.

Invoking the bedrock principle prohibiting the use of force against the territory and independence of any State, the UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Monday there must be "full respect" for the UN Charter, in the face of the United . ...

For the first time since 2023, humanitarian assistance will provide Gazans with enough food to fulfil minimum nutritional needs.

UNITED NATIONS, January 5 (IPS) - The statistics are staggering: while military spending keeps skyrocketing, Official Development Assistance (ODA)- from the rich to some of the world's poorer nations- has been declining drastically.