The European Council on Friday approved a revised EU tobacco directive, following the first-reading agreement reached with the European Parliament in December.
This means that the directive is now adopted. It is expected to enter into force in May, 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal...
In wake of the increased production of genetically modified crops worldwide, the United Nations food agency has warned in a ground-breaking survey that an increasing number of incidents of low levels of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being reported in traded food and feed.
"The incidents...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appealed yet again for the international community to help bring the rival Syrian parties closer on concrete measures to end the conflict, saying "it is not enough for representatives of the Government and opposition to be in the same room, what...
The European Commission has decided to provide additional funding of EUR 1 million to UNICEF to ensure that a vaccination campaign against polio will continue inside Syria, it was announced Friday.
The funding will be used to inoculate some 2.5 million children under the age of five against polio...
Residents of in the city of Timbuktu have launched the reconstruction of World Heritage mausoleums damaged by the armed extremists who occupied most of northern Mali in 2012, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Friday.
During the occupation, the extremists began...
Deeply concerned about violent confrontations between the police and members of opposition in Burundi, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged both the government and political parties to deescalate tensions and to campaign against political violence ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections...
The talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held in London on Friday to resolve the ongoing crisis in Ukraine have ended without any consensus, the two officials said later.
Following months of political unrest triggered by the Government's decision...
Canada has formally ended more than 12 years of its involvement in the NATO-led military mission in Afghanistan. The low-key event was marked by a flag-lowering ceremony conducted at ISAF headquarters in Kabul earlier this week.
In a statement issued to mark the occasion, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen...
Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have agreed to a truce after two days of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel and retaliatory airstrikes by Israel on the besieged Palestinian enclave, media reports citing Palestinian militants said late Thursday.
Palestinian militant group...
A United Nations independent expert warned Thursday that in an increasingly interconnected world, children are more at risk than ever of being sexually exploited or sold, calling for decisive steps at the global level to stop crimes such as child prostitution and trafficking.
"Millions of girls and...
The 8th EU-Cambodia Joint Committee was held in Brussels on Thursday, preceded by the subgroups on development cooperation, on trade and on institution building, administrative reform, legal and judicial reform, governance and human rights, the European bloc said in a press release.
The Joint Committee...
Election officials in El Salvador said Thursday that former left-wing rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren has won the tightly contested presidential run-off polls.
Nevertheless, the the country's election commission did not make a final declaration citing the right of Ceren's rival Conservative candidate...
The world community must do more, and do better, to tackle the global drug problem, senior United Nations officials stressed Thursday in Vienna, at the start of a two-day review of efforts to address a scourge that poses a serious threat to human life and undermines development.
"The cultivation,...
A dozen more F-16s and 300 personnel based at Aviano Air Base in Italy will augment the US aviation detachment at Lask Air Base in Poland, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that the United States would augment the aviation detachment in light of...
The European Union has expressed grave concerns over the recent ruling of the Maldives Supreme Court that disqualified the President and Vice President of the Election Commission, sentenced the President to six months in prison, and convicted all four members of the Election Commission for contempt of...