Heads the Chinese Mission to the UN in Geneva Chen Xu looks delivers a speech at the opening of the review of China's rights record by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on January 23, 2024. A civil liberties crackdown, repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong's draconian national...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN GENEVA, Switzerland– Russia insisted at the United Nations on Tuesday that it had not forcibly moved any Ukrainian children to Russia since its invasion in February 2022, contradicting claims by Kyiv and NGOs. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child asked Moscow...
TILTON, United States - Peace activists are urging US voters considering candidates for November's presidential election to instead write "ceasefire" on their ballots in protest over Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. "Vote Ceasefire" -- a coalition of local anti-war groups -- says...
BIG BEND, United States - US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris put abortion rights at the center of their reelection campaign Monday, attacking Republicans over an issue that Democrats see as a powerful vote winner against Donald Trump. US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks...
NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump's sexual assault defamation trial was delayed until Wednesday after a juror reported Covid symptoms on the eve of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary vote. The juror in the civil case, at which Trump says he will testify, reported symptoms...
BEIJING, China - A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck along the mountainous China-Kyrgyzstan border on Tuesday, triggering warnings of potentially widespread damage though no casualties were immediately reported. Local authorities dispatched a team to reach the quake's epicentre, the Xinhua...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US Supreme Court voted Monday to let the Biden administration remove concertina wire border barriers that Texas erected to fight illegal immigration from Mexico -- a hot button issue in this election year. The barriers are the brainchild of Texas governor Greg...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning on Monday that future generations "may not forgive us." Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO's 194 member...
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police on Monday said they had arrested a Pakistani man in connection with the killing of three siblings in their 70s, over debts reportedly linked to an online romance scam. The 43-year-old suspect had "turned himself in" on Sunday night, "admitting his...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday announced draft legislation that could pave the way for foreigners fighting against Russia in his country to receive Ukrainian citizenship. Thousands of foreigners rushed at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to help fend off...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Moscow will be asked to explain at the UN on Monday what has happened to thousands of Ukrainian children believed to have been forcibly sent to Russia since its 2022 invasion. Head of Russian NOG Crew Against Torture, human rigths defender and lawyer Olga Sadovskaya...
KYIV, Ukraine - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday said that the war between Ukraine and Russia was a fight "between good and evil" in a visit to Kyiv to show support, almost two years into Moscow's invasion. In this handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian...
