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A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday.
The U.N. is investigating two new allegations of U.N. police abuse and "sexual exploitation" of children in Haiti, spokesman Martin Nesirky said Monday.
The number of journalists jailed around the world has jumped more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.
Bashing the United Nations seldom fails as an applause line for Republican presidential candidates.
It seldom fails as an applause line for Republican presidential candidates: beating up on the United Nations.
The lawyer for an American asking for $1 million in damages from the United Nations on Wednesday described how her client was arrested, humiliated by "wanted posters" at his office and fired after he said his colleagues in Kosovo might be taking kickbacks.
An American demanded $1 million in damages from the United Nations on Wednesday, telling an internal tribunal that he was arrested, humiliated by "wanted posters" at his office and fired after he said his colleagues in Kosovo might be taking kickbacks.
An American demanded $1 million in damages from the United Nations on Wednesday, telling a U.N. tribunal that he was arrested by U.N. police, was humiliated by "wanted posters" posted at his office and was fired after he said his U.N. colleagues in Kosovo might be taking kickbacks.
James Wasserstrom says he was fired from his U.N. job in Kosovo, detained briefly at the border, had his apartment in Pristina searched and was humiliated by "wanted posters" posted at the U.N. mission after he reported suspicions of corruption.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday it has chosen four journalists for its 2011 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged member states Saturday to donate more money to save lives in famine-ravaged East Africa, saying another $700 million is needed for U.N. programs in the region through year's end. The World Bank announced from Washington it would boost its aid to area countries to nearly $1.9 billion.
Haitian President Michel Martelly announced Thursday he'll return to the stage briefly in December for a concert he hopes will raise $10 million for his nation's schools.
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal and some of the world's other poorest countries delivered not only money but new services in the year since U.N. member states pledged more than $40 billion to save the lives of mothers and children, a new study of the spending said Tuesday.
The U.N.'s first conference on racism ended up in fierce acrimony, with accusations that it was hijacked to bash Israel, Zionism and Jews.
The Syrian ambassador to the U.N. rejected European criticism of his government's crackdown on Wednesday and compared the protests in his country to this week's riots in Britain. A British envoy immediately branded the comparison as "absurd."
One was Napoleon's last place of exile. Another became home to survivors of the mutiny-stricken Bounty. They are St. Helena and the Pitcairn Islands, flecks of real estate set in vast oceans, each occupying a special place in history.
All Ivorians will be held responsible for post-electoral violence that killed thousands of people, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said Wednesday.
Mary Grace Morales is still waiting for justice 18 months after her reporter husband and sister were gunned down in a massacre of 57 political opponents and journalists in the Philippines — the world's single worst mass killing of media workers.
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will boycott a world conference against racism being held at U.N. headquarters in September.
The United Nations will undertake a systemwide study on the implications of the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is pressing the United Nations to lead a probe into his country's claims that Kosovar rebels trafficked in human organs during that region's 1998-1999 war for secession.
The cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in Haiti was caused by a South Asian strain that contaminated a river where tens of thousands of people wash, bath, drink and play, a U.N. independent panel of experts said Wednesday.
Violent attacks against humanitarian workers have tripled over the past decade, resulting in more than 100 deaths annually, former U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said Tuesday.
Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objections to the country's efforts to drop the ban on the age-old practice in an international treaty, Bolivia's U.N. ambassador said Friday.
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is counting on the lavish dinners, cocktail parties and meetings of world leaders and wealthy executives as she travels to Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to raise funds for the new United Nations agency promoting gender equality.
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