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Amb. Michel Tommo Monthe of Cameroon.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

General Assembly urged to ‘make UN more relevant’ in global combat against terrorism

12 June 2014
As the United Nations General Assembly today began a review of its overall counter-terrorism strategy, a senior official urged Member States to take advantage of the opportunity “to make the UN more relevant” in the international effort to fight what he called “a destructive and deplorable malady.”
A building damaged by the 11 December 2007 terrorist attack across the street from the UN Headquarters complex in Algiers. The bombing claimed the lives of 17 United Nations workers.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN officials underscore need to counter appeal of terrorism, better support victims

11 June 2014
Critical to defeating terrorism and making the world a safer place is addressing conditions that give rise to this scourge, senior United Nations officials stated today, as they also underscored the need to better support the victims of such heinous acts.
Civilians begin to flee new offensive against militants in Pakistan.
IRIN/Umar Farooq

Pakistan: Ban strongly condemns latest terrorist attacks

9 June 2014
Strongly condemning yesterday’s attacks in Pakistan – which reportedly left more than 50 people dead in the wake of separate assaults on the country’s main airport in Karachi, and on busloads of Shia pilgrims in Baluchistan – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Government step up its efforts to tackle terrorism and religious extremism.