Soaring gang violence in Haiti left over 5,600 people dead last year -- over 1,000 more than in 2023 -- while thousands more ...

Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi says South Africa is monitoring the Human Metapneumovirus, or HMPV outbreak in China, to ...

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The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that pandemics were likely in the future as climate change and the encroachment of ...

A report published by UN WATCH, an official watchdog organization commissioned by the United Nations, describes cases ...

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More than 900 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United ...

Iran saw an alarming rise in executions, reaching 901, including 31 women largely convicted for murder amidst contexts of ...

UN agencies hold a bi-weekly briefing United Nations agencies hold a bi-weekly briefing in Geneva on humanitarian crises in ...

Earlier, the Swiss Foreign Ministry told TASS that the country's authorities were participating in the preparation of negotiations on establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine ...