Today is Sunday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2016. There are 104 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 18, 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Cap
At last month’s UN General Assembly, U Kyaw Tint Swe, Myanmar’s minister for the office of State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, hit out at Bangladesh, blaming the stalled repatriation of Rohingya Mus
Today is the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The day was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1987 to encourage the whole world to place more importance on c
AFP Deep sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program look set to go into force once again, even as a UN watchdog confirmed Friday inspections of its atomic sites had resumed. Russia failed in an effort
YANGON — The government on Thursday dismissed as unfair and unbalanced a declaration by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) alleging human rights violations against Rohingya by Myanmar secur
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian boards a plane at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on September 23, 2025, ahead of his departure to New York to a
Children gathered around the vehicle used by aid group, World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli bomb/Photo: AFP AFP UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called the deaths of seve
“The Secretary-General notes with some concern the decision by the Union Election Commission to dissolve 10 political parties prior to the general election, including the National League for Democracy
AFP Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts selected to serve on a United Nations AI p
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UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia, have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said Tuesday.
 The report was dated Sept. 15 but was made available only today on the UN website. Regarding the issue of just
ASEAN hasn’t been gaining fans from its handling of the Myanmar military’s coup. But if it is able to craft a new template, the grouping may still count as the best pragmatic bet for getting a convers
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