At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations on Tuesday, almost double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016.
Israel said on Tuesday it had arrested a United Nations employee for allegedly providing "material assistance" to the Islamist movement Hamas.
Australia refused on Friday to back former prime minister Kevin Rudd's bid to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations, saying he was not suited to the job.
Air raids on rebel-held districts of Syria's battleground second city of Aleppo killed at least 25 civilians including children on Saturday, a monitor said.
The United States sanctioned top North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday for what it said were "notorious abuses of human rights."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called yoga a "people's mass movement" as he took to the mat on Tuesday along with millions of others worldwide to celebrate the ancient practice.
The United Nations will not hold another round of Syria peace talks in Geneva until officials on all sides agree the parameters for a political transition deal, which has an August 1 deadline, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said.
The United Nations will ask the Syrian government on Sunday to approve air drops and air lifts of humanitarian aid to besieged areas, UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council, according to diplomats in the closed door meeting on Friday.
The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in collaboration with Portugal, Norway, the Ford Foundation, and the Education Above All foundation held a working session to highlight the “girls’ right to education in emergency situations”.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reiterated that international institutions ought to protect journalists and end impunity everywhere by forcing governments to abide by United Nations (UN) resolutions.
The United Nations Syria envoy expects a staggered start to peace talks next week, with participants arriving over several days for "indirect meetings", he said in an interview with pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said the Syrian people, not foreigners, should decide the fate of their President Bashar al-Assad.
