Observing that proxy war inside Afghanistan is neither good for his country nor the region, the Afghan Ambassador to the United Nations, Zahir Tanin, has said rivalry between India and Pakistan can cost very dearly to his country.

The United Nations has condemned the killing of six aid workers who were gunned down in north-west Pakistan and asked Islamabad to ensure the safety of such people in that country.

Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that he will press ahead with setting up a special panel on accountability in Sri Lanka, despite Colombo rejecting his proposal.

The United Nations has proposed to set up an expert panel to look into alleged human rights violations during the last phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka, triggering a sharp reaction from the country's President Mahinda Rajapaksa who rejected the move.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon along with its special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton have launched a new flash appeal of $1.4 billion for Haiti victims.

A top United Nations envoy was due to arrive in military-ruled Myanmar on Monday, following the release from detention of the still-defiant deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party.

India figures among the four countries that has seen a marked increase in systematic attacks on schools, students and teachers between 2006 and 2009, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) report has said.

The West says Tehran is not capable of turning the material into the fuel rods needed by the reactor. Instead it fears that Iran wants to enrich the uranium to make nuclear weapons.

A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an emotional visit to the Haiti peacekeeping mission's devastated headquarters Sunday and delivered a message of hope to the country's earthquake victims.

North Korea is meting out harsher punishment to citizens who try to flee the country, a sign that overall human rights conditions remain dire in the communist state, a United Nations official said Friday.

Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians struggled frantically on Thursday to save those injured in this week's earthquake as desperately needed aid from around the world began arriving.

Taliban suicide bombings and other attacks caused Afghan civilian deaths to soar last year to the highest annual level in the war, the UN said on Wednesday, while deaths attributed to allied forces dropped nearly 30 percent — a key US goal for winning over the Afghan people.

Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the UN peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.

The headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti has sustained "serious damage" in the 7.3-magnitude earthquake which shook the Caribbean nation and a large number of UN personnel are unaccounted for, according to the UN peacekeeping chief.

The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, UN peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings.

Sri Lanka said Friday that a video purportedly showing its troops killing blindfolded, naked Tamils during the civil war was a fabrication and dismissed a UN investigation confirming its apparent authenticity as biased.

The UN food agency is stopping aid distribution to about 1 million people in southern Somalia because of attacks against staff and demands by armed groups that aid organizations remove women from their teams, the agency said on Tuesday.

The United Nations plans to temporarily relocate some of its international staff outside of Pakistan for security reasons following a string of attacks that has killed at least 11 of its personnel in the country this year, the group said Thursday.

Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press.

On the anniversary of Israel's siege of the Gaza strip, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday said issues that led to this conflict remain unresolved and the blockade of borders by Tel Aviv was violating Palestinians' basic human rights.

UN investigators say there is sufficient reason to believe that Guinea's wounded junta leader is directly responsible for the mass killings and rapes of protesters in September, which they consider crimes against humanity, a UN diplomat said on Monday.

The UN climate conference narrowly escaped collapse on Saturday as bitterly divided delegates agreed after all-night talks to recognise a political compromise that President Barack Obama brokered with China and other emerging powers.

Pakistan on Thursday assured stepped up security to UN official as the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani asked the world body to reconsider its decision to cut international staff in the country.