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New York: The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.

New York: The 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

New York: Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.

New York: Climate change strikes it fiercest blow against the poorest, most vulnerable people around the world, according to a United Nations report released, urging policymakers to heed the role of women - who make up the majority of the poor - in combating climate change.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - India's Assam state is to expand its electricity transmission and distribution capacity, and increase access in remote communities in a bid to meet growing demand and cut poverty.

Floods and drought left behind, Andhra Pradesh goes through a prestigious battle on November 23 for the 150-member Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, with all parties in the fray as a trial of strength for the future, in a state where intra-Congress tensions make instability hover over the Rosaiah Government.

“War is the continuation of politics, just as politics is bloodless war”
— Clausewitz
Diplomacy, one might add, is the international face of politics, of which camouflage is an essential ingredient. Surely, the main thrust of diplomacy is to provide global sustenance to a nation's socio-political-economic advancement, and therefore foreign policy and its diplomacy have to be in sync with economic advance of the nation.

New York: A top United Nations official has called for a new culture of “intellectual social responsibility” to take education beyond the classroom to the search for real solutions to real problems, with the academic and educational sector pooling its knowledge for the global public good.

New York: With over 5,000 casualties last year from landmines that continue to indiscriminately kill and maim decades after they are laid, two senior United Nations officials today warned that, despite significant progress in ridding the world of these explosive devices, much more needs to be done.

New York: Despite the encouraging commitments by the Kyrgyz Government, women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to violence, exploitation and destitution, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today following her first mission to the country.