Migrants suffer deadliest quarter in central Mediterranean since 2017
The figures show an 'intolerable' loss of life amid more reports of government-led rescue delays and obstacles to NGOs' search and rescue efforts.
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The figures show an 'intolerable' loss of life amid more reports of government-led rescue delays and obstacles to NGOs' search and rescue efforts.
The addition more than doubles the length of 1,215 kilometers of borders that NATO member nations share with Russia.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a U.N.-brokered agreement with Russia, Ukraine and Turkey on July 22, 2022, was reauthorized once again.
From the killing fields of Ukraine to the earthquakes of Turkey and Syria, children struggle in an often indifferent world.
The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria says an effective response to the earthquake "was hampered in part" by the war.
Fresh snowfall, freezing temperatures and a disrupted cross-border operation added to the despair, frustration and anger.
The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
Several grain ships left Ukrainian ports under a U.N.-brokered deal that could help ease the global food crisis.
Russia struck Ukraine's port of Odesa, violating the deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations that Moscow and Kyiv signed less than a day earlier.
Obstructed by Russia's demands, the U.N. Security Council agreed to a six-month entension for cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria.
The street renaming honors the journalist assassinated by the Saudis because of his writings about the repressive regime.
Assassination and unlawful deportations are some of the methods that regimes use against activists and dissidents.
Michelle Bachelet said reports about the use of Pegasus software for spying 'seem to confirm some of the worst fears.'
The U.N. approved a compromise to keep open Syria's last non-government controlled border crossing for aid.
Despite the pandemic, the number of people fleeing for safety around the world rose to almost 82.4 million last year.
Syrian representatives, dogged by mistrust from an almost decade-long civil war, began a fourth round of peace talks on a new system of governance.