Sudan

Türkiye expressed profound concern over the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan, with a particular focus on the plight of civilians in Al Jazirah state.

In a strongly worded statement released Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry painted a grim picture of the situation unfolding in the Northeast African nation.

A senior official with Europe's top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a UN-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months.

One man has died and two more are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off Gavdos, an island south of Crete.

Coast guard officials said the vessel went down 21 nautical miles south of the island.

A drone from the EU's border agency Frontex spotted the semi-submerged vessel and a nearby ship conducted a search and rescue operation.

The head of the UNHCR warned today that displacement crises in Lebanon and Sudan may worsen but stated that stricter border measures are not the solution, calling them ineffective and sometimes illegal.

TIVAT - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Tivat, Montenegro, that Serbian-made ammunition was likely to be found everywhere in the world where wars were going on but that Serbia always exported it to licenced end-users only and that there were no Serbian-made arms on the battlefields.

This photograph shows a mosaic pavement (Byzantine period, 579 AD) collected in 1997 from the site of a vanished Byzantine church in Deir-el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, displayed during an exhibition on the protection of cultural property in case of conflict entitled "Heritage in Peril", at the Art and History Museum in Geneva on Oct. 3, 2024.

The "Sudan Ship," a collaborative effort between Türkiye and Kuwait, arrived in Port Sudan on Wednesday carrying approximately 2,500 tons of relief materials.

When hotel rooms in Manhattan cost $700 per night, streets close, and the city fills with motorcades of limousines, New Yorkers know it’s time for the world’s largest diplomatic summit. More than 140 heads of state and government are scheduled to speak at the annual UN General Assembly in the city.

Canada is drawing on Cyprus' experience of accommodating the needs of women migrants and children and those fleeing regional conflict zones at a time of unprecedented global displacement, the Canadian envoy on women, peace and security said Wednesday.

Palestinians took a seat among member states at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, a new right accorded to the delegation despite not being a full member of the body.

In May, an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestinians deserved full membership, a move that has been blocked by the United States.