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Philippine boxing star Manny Pacquiao says he is to run for president in next year’s election. He was nominated as a candidate by a faction of the ruling party, PDP-Laban. On top of a glittering […]

Haitians fleeing a country hammered by political turmoil and two natural disasters made up most of over 10,000 migrants sleeping on the ground and desperate for food in a squalid camp under a bridge in […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be the most challenging period the world has seen since the World War Two, said the UN Secretary-General on Tuesday – as the 75th session of the General Assembly […]

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman convicted of murdering George Floyd, and three other police officers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal civil rights charges stemming from the death of the 46-year-old. Chauvin was sentenced […]

NEW YORK — Secretary-General António Guterres described Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, as “a champion for women and girls”, announcing on Monday her appointment to lead the UN’s gender equality and empowerment entity, UN Women. The […]

NEW YORK — The incoming president of the General Assembly says that hope is desperately needed for those billions around the world struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, devastation, and strife. In his first major interview, he […]

The meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled a significant thaw in a relationship that had been frosty under Bennett’s predecessor, Israeli hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. They met in […]

GENEVA — The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed visited Somalia on Sunday to express her solidarity with Somali women’s calls for full and equal participation in political life, and the support of the international […]