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New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for strengthening the international treaty banning chemical weapons as a way to honour all those who have lost their lives to this scourge.

New York: Brazilian soccer sensation and the youngest Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Kaká is appealing to the millions set to tune into this summer's World Cup to take a stand against hunger.

New York: The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom has called for a full investigation into the “tragic” death in jail of a newspaper editor in Cameroon.

WASHINGTON ─ The World Bank has approved a $12 million IDA credit to Bhutan, designed to improve infrastructure services in parts of the capital city of Thimphu where no formal services are currently available.

WASHINGTON ─ The World Bank has approved a US$$117.70 million IDA credit to India, designed to improve quality of and access to health services in the state of Tamil Nadu. This comes as additional financing to the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project which was approved on December 16, 2004 with an IDA credit amount of US$110.83 million.

The present coalition politics has brought into existence strange bedfellows. A classic example is the NCP and its parent party the Congress. They have always had a peculiar love-hate relationship this past decade. During the current IPL controversy it has come to the surface once again how even cricket could become an irritant.

New York: The coming year will be a very challenging one for Haiti as it seeks to recover and rebuild from January's tragic earthquake, but with the right international support the country can embark on a new era of stability and growth, the top United Nations official there said.

New York: Increasing access to clean energy and improving its efficiency will be vital to both enhancing global prosperity and combating climate change, according to a new report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's advisory group on the nexus between energy and climate.

New York: The United Nations political mission in Nepal has called for an investigation and appropriate disciplinary action after a Maoist army platoon commander was discovered to be travelling on public transport with a hand grenade.

The Committee on Safeguards, on 26 April 2010, reviewed five notifications of new or amended legislation and 43 safeguard actions by WTO members, including reports of termination of investigations without imposition of measures.