More than 200 humanitarian and human rights groups called Thursday for the U.N. General Assembly to address Syria's deadly conflict, citing the Security Council's paralysis in dealing with the crisis. In a declaration published in New York, the 223 signatories said the Security...

(Eqtsad)- The numbers announced by the General Grain Directorate subordinate to regime about the amount of grain imported during the past 18 months (1200000 tons) catches the eye in light of the difficult economic conditions of the regime where the real import cost of this amount is 1000000$....

(Sky News)- Russia and Syria are preventing essential humanitarian aid from reaching starving, sick civilians in east Aleppo, according to the United Nations. Around 200,000 people desperate for food and medical equipment remain trapped by fierce fighting in the rebel-held district of...

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized to the people of Haiti on Thursday for the world body's role in a deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 9,300 people and was blamed on Nepali U.N. peacekeepers. Haiti was free of cholera until 2010, when the...