Iran achieved MDG 5 [United Nations Millennium Development Goals] by being the 9th country with the lowest maternity death worldwide, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights on Sunday said the United Nations and the Security Council are responsible for the Saudi crimes in Yemen, condemning continuation of attacks by the Riyadh-led coalition on al-Hudaydah Port.

The US and Saudi Arabia say they have agreed to end US refueling of Saudi aircraft bombing Yemen but several officials underlined that American training and military assistance will continue.

The Syrian government protested to the United Nations about an airstrike by the US-led coalition that killed 26 civilians in Hajin in the eastern Deir ez-Zor region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described his American counterpart's threat to starve Iranians as a “crime against humanity”, stressing that the Iranian nation will survive despite Washington’s sanctions.

Amnesty International has accused Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners of brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.

According to a new study by Brown University on the cost in lives of America’s Post-9/11 Wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, between 480,000 and 507,000 people were killed in the course of the three conflicts.

Outraged by the “unconscionable toll” caused by the escalation of hostilities in Yemen, the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on Saturday, urged the warring parties and those supplying them with weapons, to take immediate steps to end the suffering of civilians.

Some 10 legal Arab and Turkish institutes in a statement on Saturday called for handing over 18 people accused of killing Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Turkish courts and UN investigation into the case

On Monday, the UK announced it was urging UN Security Council to act over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, saying there now "appears to be a window" for a peace deal.