NNA - Church bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from around the world after the Vatican on Monday announced the ...

Separately, the UN is facing a cash crisis, partly related to the US owing $1.495 billion to the UN regular budget and ...

Last month, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper met the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, to discuss sending people to return hubs in a paying third country, the Times reports. The UNHCR has ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 18 (UPI) --Leadership changes in Syria and Lebanon, driven by the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the weakening of Hezbollah's influence, have created a rare ...

Having returned from Chad, where he met with Sudanese refugees, Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, commented: “Sudan is bleeding. Its people have been suffering for too long.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper met the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, last month (Jacob King/PA) The United Nations refugee agency has endorsed “return hubs” in a boost to ...

The United Nations says at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since a ceasefire was struck at the end of last year. Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN Office ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group denied at the time it was behind the firing of rockets. Since the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in late November ended their 14-month conflict, Israel has carried out ...

Hezbollah was formed in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, and has grown to become a formidable rival political and military force within the country. The ...