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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement win Asturias Award

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement have won the International Cooperation division of the 2016 Princess of Asturias Awards.

India

Watch: International Yoga Day celebrated around the world

Yoga fans across the world have gathered to mark the second International Yoga Day.

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One in every 113 people in world is displaced or a refugee - UN

World

Interview with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

This week on the Global Conversation, Isabelle Kumar speaks with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the state of world affairs and his last six months in office.

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Syria

ISIL committing genocide against Yazidis - UN

The so-called Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) is committing ‘genocide’ against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, according to UN investigators.

Europe News

Ban Ki-moon urges global unity at 10th annual EU Development Days

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Brussels to debate international development policy as part of the 10th annual EU Development Days.

France

Syria: Damascus suburb Daraya bombed after aid delivery

Barrel bombs have reportedly hit Daraya in Syria after desperately needed food aid reached the besieged town for the first time in four…

Syria

Russia concerned about safety of workers delivering UN aid to Syria

The United Nations is finalising plans to airlift humanitarian aid to 19 besieged towns in Syria but Russia has expressed concern about the safety of aid workers, according to a senior UN…

Turkey

Controversial World Humanitarian Summit opens

Despite criticism from some NGO’s that it is simply ‘a fig-leaf of good intentions’ the first World Humanitarian Summit has opened in…

Turkey

Humanitarian Summit seeks solutions in Istanbul

The World Humanitarian Summit, the first of its kind,is taking place in Istanbul.

Iraq

A Yazidi girl's harrowing tale of escape from ISIL captivity

Lamiya Aji Bashar, an Iraqi Yazidi, tells a tortuous tale of her escape from ISIL captivity.

Economy

Where's the money? UN tax haven report details billions moving around the world

Companies put the equivalent of 191 billion euros into low tax countries - mostly Luxembourg and the Netherlands - last year according to a new United Nations report.

Syria

The United Nations appeals to save the truce and negotiations in Syria

The United Nations has appealed to the United States and Russia to act to save the “cessation of hostilities” and the negotiations between the Syrian

Malawi

Extinction threat for people with albinism in Malawi as ritual murders rise

People with albinism in Malawi are being attacked, abducted and killed to such an extent that they face extinction in the African country. The dire

World News

UN envoy urges US, Russia to salvage "barely alive" Syrian truce

Staffan de Mistura says the two-month old Syrian ceasefire "hangs by a thread."

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: Greece faces another cash crunch

This is the Brief from Brussels: Euronews’ daily round-up of the biggest news stories that are making headlines in Europe’s capital and beyond. In

Republic of Ecuador

UN World Food Programme steps up aid to Ecuador

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is stepping up assistance to Ecuador’s most vulnerable areas following last week’s (April 16)

USA

Unprecedented 175 nations sign UN climate change deal

USA

Paris climate accord is signed by record 175 countries

As Earth Day was being observed around the planet on Friday, a record number of 175 countries signed the historic Paris accord to slow global

USA

UN: delegates set to sign historic climate change deal

Delegates from more than 165 states are at the United Nations in New York to sign an historic deal to slow down climate change. #EarthDay - the