Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue spokesman Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif explained on Thursday that his extremist regime forces women to cover their faces because the “value” of a woman “decreases” when men look at her.
Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban’s iron grip on Afghanistan.
Girls in Afghanistan are bypassing the fanatical Taliban’s cruel ban on education for young women by attending secret schools, some of them run by female teachers — an occupation the Taliban also banned after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal two years ago.
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog agency, revealed in a report published Tuesday that America “remains the largest donor” to Afghanistan nearly two years after the Taliban’s conquest of the country – and the Taliban is taking credit for much of that aid.
Foreign aid funding shortfalls for Ukraine are seriously damaging its prospects of survival as Russia continues to age war on its neighbor, a United Nations humanitarian coordinator asserted Monday.
The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) reports that five million Haitians do not get enough food every day, and two million of them are on the verge of starvation.
Calm down, everyone. The new head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jim Skea, warned it’s not helpful to imply a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity, declaring apocalyptic messaging merely “paralyses” the public and fails to motivate them to protect the planet.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua said Sunday that his government will lead the long-discussed multinational intervention force in Haiti and send a thousand police officers to “train and assist the Haitian Police to restore normality in the country and protect strategic facilities.”
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday night rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”
United Nations Command, the agency responsible for implementing the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War, confirmed on Monday that it had begun “conversations” with North Korea about the fate of American soldier Travis King.
One person was killed in Sunday’s bombings, and 25 registered architectural monuments had been hit, the mayor said.
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said on Thursday his agency has uncovered “some really horrific information about the problems with the U.N. operations in Afghanistan.”
Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.
Dozens of women made a rare show of defiance against the brutal Taliban regime in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Wednesday, marching against the ban on beauty salons issued early this month by the extremist government.
The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated on Wednesday that the number of people displaced by the vicious factional war in Sudan has exceeded 3 million, with some 2.4 of them displaced internally and 730,000 crossing into other countries to seek refuge.
Sultan al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who also heads one of the country’s state oil companies, told senior officials from Europe, Canada and China gathered in Brussels that record-breaking heat seen in parts of the world recently shows the need for urgent action to curb emissions.
United Nations votes to adopt resolution on Qur’an burning at ‘urgent meeting’ convened for Pakistan, a cheerleader for global blasphemy laws
The United Nations marked World Population Day on Tuesday, publishing a forecast that the Earth’s population will hit 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and surpass 10 billion before the end of the century.
The Taliban regime on Monday ordered hundreds of beauty salons across the country to close by the end of July, marking the Islamist regime’s latest offense against the rights and dignity of women in Afghanistan.
A U.N. meeting titled “AI for Good Global Summit” begins in Geneva on Thursday seeking ways to advise the globalist organization on “governance issues” alongside efforts to control the spread of artificial intelligence (AI) and human augmentation.
Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared Monday the planet is “[…] burning. It’s melting. It’s flooding. It’s depleting. It’s drying. It’s dying,” as he evoked a “dystopian future” for all unless “climate change” is addressed.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in its annual World Drug Report released this week that as much as 86 percent of the world’s population has “too little access” to pharmaceutical opioids – despite identifying opioids as “the leading cause of deaths in fatal overdoses.”
According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) documented record-high coca cultivation and cocaine production throughout 2021 in its 2023 World Drug Report, released on Monday.
Three United Nations staff members were arrested in Israel on suspicion of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country from Jordan.
A U.N.-certified “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity declared Wednesday that religious communities must yield to the demands of LGBT persons to avoid charges of violence and discrimination.
A contingent of Indian Army soldiers from Kerala published a video on Wednesday performing yoga underwater, an effort to honor the International Day of Yoga.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a yoga session featuring New York City Mayor Eric Adams, actor Richard Gere, and representatives from at least 180 countries at the United Nations on Wednesday morning, his first major public appearance during this week’s trip to America.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published prior to his departure to the United States on Monday that his visit will focus on elevating his country to a “much higher, deeper, and wider profile,” both as a partner to America and in international venues such as the United Nations.
The Taliban’s “acting” central bank governor, Mullah Hidayatullah Badri, met with Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu on Thursday in Kabul to discuss “the economy, banking relations, business, and some related topics.”
The U.N. unveiled an “automated” fact-checking service to counter disinformation in a project with Big-Tech and Soros-funded organisations.
A frustrated and powerless United Nations complained Monday that Moscow is allegedly denying its aid workers access to Russian-occupied areas affected by the recent Kakhova hydroelectric dam collapse in southern Ukraine.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday he will lead a yoga session at U.N. headquarters in New York City on June 21, which the United Nations has proclaimed as the “International Day of Yoga.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded the world start phasing out oil, coal and gas energy sources with immediate effect, further cautioning fossil fuel companies to “cease and desist” measures that aim to “knee-cap” climate progress.
China, guilty of forced labor and genocide, became the improbable host of a “Forum on Global Human Rights Governance.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday touted his proposal for a “Global Digital Compact,” which would include planet-wide laws against “hate and lies in the digital space.”
UNESCO announced Monday that the far-left administration of President Joe Biden has decided to return America to the organization.
The UK Guardian on Wednesday reported that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was given access to the email system employed by the Cop28 climate summit and has been reading much of the summit’s electronic correspondence.
Residents of the Kherson region in Ukraine find themselves dealing with new hardships thanks to the breach of the Kakhovka Dam on Tuesday, including flooded homes, drowning, disease, and even landmines dislodged by floodwater from the Dnipro River.
The international aid news outlet the New Humanitarian reported on Monday that the top World Food Program (WFP) officials in Ethiopia resigned last week following an investigation into the disappearance of critical food aid in that country, believed to later resurface on the black market.
