UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos arrived in Syria Saturday amid a flurry of aid meetings underway in the conflict-torn country. Amos’s visit came just one day after Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, arrived in Damascus for talks on broader access to besieged areas and visits to […]
India, which has always pressed for dialogue to solve the Syrian crisis, may attend the Jan 22 Geneva II peace conference, said a government official Tuesday. Around 30 nations are going to attend the conference in the city of Montreux, Switzerland. While a formal invite is yet to be issued, India has been informed “fairly […]
Across the world, 70 journalists were killed in 2013 while on the job, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. The figure was marginally down from 74 in 2012. The committee is investigating the deaths of 25 more journalists in 2013 to establish whether these were work-related. According to the report, Syria, Iraq, Egypt were the […]