More than 26% of Egyptians below poverty line – CAPMAS
26.3 percent of Egypt’s population lies beneath poverty line for the year 2012/13 compared with 25.2 percent in…
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Egypt objects to proposal at Human Rights Council for abolishing death sentence
Egypt's UN Human Rights Council member Amr Ramadan issued a statement Saturday objecting to a proposal made by…
Facebook partners with UN to bring internet access to refugees in camps
Facebook is working with the United Nations to enable refugees from the Syrian civil war to access the internet so…
At U.N., Iran’s Rouhani calls for investigation into haj crush
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a…
Exiled Yemeni government pulls out of planned peace talks
Yemen's exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend U.N.-mediated peace talks with its adversaries…
Sisi meets UN representatives
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held a plenary meeting Saturday with a number of representatives to the UN of more…
Libya peace talks reach final stages
The United Nations peace envoy for Libya said Wednesday he was confident that the past seven months of talks will…
World Food Prices fall further in June; U.N. FAO says
Global food prices dropped in June, continuing an almost uninterrupted slide since April 2014, led by falling dairy…
Yemen’s Houthis say Ramadan humanitarian pause under discussion
Yemen's dominant Houthi movement said on Saturday a pause in fighting to last until the end of the Muslim holy…
Egypt’s judiciary ‘offended’ by foreign criticism over mass death…
Egypt's foreign affairs ministry on Wednesday said it rejected some countries "offending the Egyptian judiciary",…
