The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) agreed today to join forces and scale up efforts to tackle cervical cancer, a disease that kills over 310,000 women every year, particularly affec…
Despite the loss of its last stronghold in Syria and the death of its leader, ISIL remains at the centre of the transnational terrorism threat, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Friday. In presenting the latest UN report on ISIL, Vladim…
As the night draws in this evening, the sun will set on more than 45 years of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. For us, as Presidents of the three main EU institutions, today will inevitably be a day of reflection and mixed emotion…
The General Assembly paid tribute today to Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who led Oman for nearly half a century and passed away on 10 January at age 79, with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praising him as a leader who prioritized cooperation and multilat…
NAIROBI In the year 2000, a football team was founded in a slum of Nairobi plagued by crime. The football team would later be named Kariobangi Sharks, Kariobangi being the name of the informal settlement the team members hailed from.The team became a s…