Visit By Un Envoy

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Chinese leaders on Saturday that he expected authorities to allow UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to make a "credible visit" to the country, including Xinjiang, the United Nations said.

North Korea welcomed a US envoy's visit to Seoul by firing two missiles Thursday, the South's military said, in Pyongyang's second launch in less than a week as it seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington.

A United Nations-appointed human rights envoy said today that the Chinese government interfered with his work during a visit to China by blocking access to individuals whom he had hoped to meet.

A car bomb claimed by the Islamic State group Sunday killed the governor of Yemen's second city Aden, a day after a visit by the UN's envoy to press for long-delayed peace talks.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un told a visiting envoy sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping that he wants to improve relations with South Korea, Chinese state media reported today.

The UN's peace envoy to Syria said today he would visit Damascus soon and renewed his criticism of the use of barrel bombs by President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

UN education envoy Gordon Brown on Tuesday pledged that a school from where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Islamist militants will be rebuilt, as he visited Nigeria for talks on boosting security.

At least two people died in a bomb blast on Wednesday on a train near Myanmar's capital during a visit to the country by a US envoy, a Myanmar official said.The explosion occurred in the early evening in Tatkone township in the Naypyidaw area, said an official on condition of anonymity."Two people including a woman were killed and seven others were...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Chinese leaders on Saturday that he expected authorities to allow UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to make a "credible visit" to the country, including Xinjiang, the United Nations said.

North Korea welcomed a US envoy's visit to Seoul by firing two missiles Thursday, the South's military said, in Pyongyang's second launch in less than a week as it seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington.

A United Nations-appointed human rights envoy said today that the Chinese government interfered with his work during a visit to China by blocking access to individuals whom he had hoped to meet.

A car bomb claimed by the Islamic State group Sunday killed the governor of Yemen's second city Aden, a day after a visit by the UN's envoy to press for long-delayed peace talks.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un told a visiting envoy sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping that he wants to improve relations with South Korea, Chinese state media reported today.

The UN's peace envoy to Syria said today he would visit Damascus soon and renewed his criticism of the use of barrel bombs by President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

UN education envoy Gordon Brown on Tuesday pledged that a school from where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Islamist militants will be rebuilt, as he visited Nigeria for talks on boosting security.

At least two people died in a bomb blast on Wednesday on a train near Myanmar's capital during a visit to the country by a US envoy, a Myanmar official said.The explosion occurred in the early evening in Tatkone township in the Naypyidaw area, said an official on condition of anonymity."Two people including a woman were killed and seven others were...