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The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, March 1, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

UN rights chief to visit Bangladesh 29-30 Oct

The UN rights chief will meet a number of advisers for different ministries, the chief justice, the army chief and the heads of several reform commissions

File Photo: The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting in New York City, US, October 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Iran calls on UN Security Council to condemn Israeli strikes

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. File Photo: Reuters

UN HR chief Volker Turk to visit Bangladesh this month

File Photo: The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting in New York City, US, October 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

US says Israel must show no Gaza 'policy of starvation'

Families fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south, sit in front of the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. AP Photo

UN says over 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in 3 weeks by war

Thick smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs from a generator that caught fire, according to residents, as seen from Baabda, Beirut, Lebanon, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki

UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. Photo: GIL COHEN-MAGEN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Netanyahu tells UN chief to move peacekeepers in Lebanon out of 'harm's way immediately'

A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance moves past armored vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) during their patrol around Marjayoun in south Lebanon on October 8, 2024. Photo: AFP

UN reports fifth peacekeeper wounded in Lebanon

People clean up the debris of destroyed and damaged buildings in the aftermath of bombardments carried out by Myanmar's military in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State on September 24, 2024. File Photo: AFP

Indonesia hosts international meeting on Myanmar with UN, junta rivals, sources say

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference on the eve of the U.N. climate summit (COP25) in Madrid, Spain, December 1, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

UN Security Council backs Guterres after Israel bars him from country

People stand amid damage caused by Israeli airstrikes, as smoke rises over Beirut southern suburbs, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in the Choueifat district, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki/File Photo

Civilians bear brunt in 'catastrophic' Lebanon conflict, UN official says

Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

Bangladesh recalls five envoys in major diplomatic reshuffle

In the capital on 29 September. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

UN launches $134m humanitarian appeal for Bangladesh's disaster-affected communities