United Nations (UN)

Rescuers search for survivors trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium building in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar. Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Mandalay on March 29, AFP journalists saw, 30 hours after a devastating quake hit Myanmar. File Photo: AFP/Sai Aung Main via BSS
World+Biz

UN seeks $275 million in aid for Myanmar quake survivors

The new appeal report warns that only around five percent has been funded of an estimated $1.1 billion needed for the previous humanitarian aid plan for 5.5 million people

File photo of Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa/BSS
Middle East

Syria welcomes UN resolution to investigate human-rights violations

The Chiatibo glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range is seen in Pakistan, October 16, 2019. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Climate Change

Rapid Himalayan ice melt puts Bangladesh at risk: UN

Noted individuals taking part in the roundtable discussion on women's rights in the capital on 19 March 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Roundtable discussion on women’s rights held in Dhaka

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on 16 March before leaving Dhaka. Photo: Chief Adviser’s Press Wing.
Bangladesh

UN secretary general leaves Dhaka

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus meets United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Chief Adviser’s Office in Dhaka on Friday, 14 March 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing
Bangladesh

UN chief backs Bangladesh reforms, voices concern over Rohingya aid cuts

Palestinian women stand in a window of a damaged building, amid ceasefire negotiations with Israel, in Gaza City, January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
World+Biz

UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza

A Rohingya girl feeds a child from a jar with the USAID logo on it, at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, February 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ro Yassin Abdumonab/File Photo
Bangladesh

Rohingya hopes reignite as Guterres returns after 6 years to brand new challenges

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, US on 14 September 2020. File Photo REUTERS
Bangladesh

UN chief Guterres arrives today with packed schedule

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar addresses a news conference, as the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country, in Juba, South Sudan April 5, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Samir Bol/File Photo
Africa

South Sudan situation deteriorating at alarming pace: UN rights body

A woman looks on as people from Non Una di Meno (Not One Less) movement and feminist collectives take part in a protest, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Rome, Italy, November 23, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
World+Biz

Women's rights under attack and 'we must fight back', says UN chief

Britain's ambassador to the UN Simon Manley walks out with other delegates during the speech of Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia at the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
World+Biz

Dozens of delegates walk out of Russia's speech to UN rights council

UN Secretary-General Guterres and Chief Adviser (CA) Muhammad Yunus. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

UN Secretary General Guterres writes to CA, expresses solidarity with Bangladesh