With President Bashar al-Assad at the helm, there can be no peace agreement are holding out in Syria. EU foreign ministers made it clear Monday in Luxembourg, where they agreed their strategy for the war-torn country.
The Geneva talks on ending the Syrian civil war have all participants conducted extensive and detailed consultations on all items on the agenda. They are also willing to return to the next round of talks. This said Friday the UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura, after a round of interviews was completed.
The Dutch Red Cross depends Friday in the country's flag at half-mast to call attention to the death of a worker in Syria. Volunteer Firas Al-Hussein of the Syrian Red Crescent was shot earlier this week while he was working in Tabqa, near the IS stronghold Raqqa.
The number of Syrians that fled after six years of civil war in their country to neighboring countries, has passed the 5 million. So says the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
In South Sudan slain six helpers. They were sat in the capital Juba to the town of Pibor on the road when they were attacked in an ambush. That the United Nations Sunday reported, without saying whether they were working for the UN and what nationality they were.
The Russian singer Yulia Samojlova would possibly anywhere outside Ukraine directly participate via a satellite link to the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. This is considering the European association of public broadcasters, the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) which organizes the festival. It would be the first time that a candidate participate remotely.
In Yemen and Somalia in the short term could lead to a major famine. The International Red Cross warned Wednesday that the situation could be dire if no help is provided.
While the US government is working on even more stringent sanctions, put the North Korean government's heels in the sand. Diplomat Choe Myong Nam made clear Tuesday that his country ' with full force '' continues to develop nuclear weapons and missiles. ' Of course we are not afraid, '' he said of the threat of new sanctions.
The warring parties in Syria must prepare for a firm agenda for the next round of peace talks. That UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday. He wants each party contributes substantially and proactively participating in the consultation that goes on Thursday.
The climate in 2016 made history with a record rise in temperature, an extremely small amount of sea ice and an unrelenting rise in the sea level. This reports the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a report published Tuesday. Extreme weather and climate are continued this year.
Consultations about the war in Syria, which is held in the Kazakh capital Astana, goes further in early May. This informed the promoters, Russia, Turkey and Iran, Wednesday. A Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan announced that the next round of talks will be on 3 and 4 May.
Aid workers in Syria after waiting four months to bring the first time aid to four besieged places. In Fua and Kafraya, which are besieged by rebels, have brought 58 trucks with relief supplies for 40,000 people, said a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva Wednesday.
The Syrian air force has bombed a water intentionally causing 5.5 million people in December and came to sit around capital Damascus without drinking water. That concludes a committee of the UN that the action calls a war crime.
Vienna is again the best city to live in. For the eighth consecutive year, the Austrian capital at the top of a list that is annually compiled by consulting firm Mercer on quality of life. Amsterdam is in twelfth place in the list published Tuesday.
Between July 2015 and December 2016 were caused during operations by Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey widespread destruction and violated human rights. That the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations in a report published Friday.
The encryption code and other techniques that use Proto Mail and other encrypted services are still safe. That suggests at least Proto-mail, known as highly secure e-mail service in response to the large number of documents disclosure site WikiLeaks made public Tuesday about digital espionage practices of the CIA.
Agreement on the agenda, according to the Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari 'the one' which has delivered ten days consultation with the opposition in Geneva. Damascus still studying whether it returns later this month for a sequel, but the government or opposition demands that speaks with one voice.
The mainland of Antarctica is 17.5 degrees Celsius officially reached a new height record. This was announced by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) of the United Nations.
The Syrian government has deliberately in Aleppo in September let bombard an aid convoy which certainly killed fourteen workers. That's one of the conclusions of a group of researchers from the United Nations in a report on war crimes during the siege and recapture of the city of Aleppo. All warring parties were guilty of war crimes, according to the UN.
Russia and China have blocked a resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria. Western countries wanted to impose sanctions against the regime of President Assad for using chemical weapons in the now six-year war.
North Korea has angrily responded to the allegation that chemical weapons are stored barrels in the country. The South Korean foreign minister said Tuesday in Geneva at a UN conference on disarmament.
In the civil war in Yemen are increasingly used children as soldiers. Especially the Houthi rebels recruit minors for battle, says the Human Rights Office of the United Nations.
The use of nerve gas for the murder of Kim Jong-nam by South Korea as an opportunity to call for international 'collective measures against North Korea.' The northern neighbor for example, should be suspended as a member of the United Nations.
The deadly bombings aimed at the Syrian Homs hindering the peace talks in Syria. That says UN representative Staffan de Mistura. 'It is in the interest of all parties that are against terrorism and seek a political solution in Syria to such attempts do not succeed,' said De Mistura.
The Malaysian police announced that Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed with it. The agent is on the list of weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations.
The United Nations on Thursday in Geneva hosted peace talks on the civil war in Syria. The meeting with stakeholders was demolished without concrete results in April 2016.
International negotiations on the crisis in Syria would begin Wednesday in Astana, was suspended one day. In the capital of Kazakhstan, representatives of countries including Russia, Turkey and Iran meet.
The Syrian government arms are open to exchange prisoners with the rebels. This could ensure that both parties are preparing to attend peace talks.
The army and police in Myanmar have been guilty of mass murder and rape of Rohingya. Moreover, burned his village of the Muslim Rohingya. It is therefore very likely that there had been crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. That the United Nations Human Rights Council said Friday.
UNICEF calls this year, more than 3 billion euros to provide emergency assistance to children, about 500 million more than last year. According to the children's UN more children need such assistance, 48 million instead of 43 million in 2016.
