The UN peacekeeping chief said today there are strong suspicions that pro-regime fighters were responsible for some of the 108 victims of a massacre in Syria, along with heavy weapons illegally fired by government forces.

Burma’s isolationist regime has approved all pending visas for United Nations relief workers to enter the country, the world body said today, nearly a month after a cyclone left more than two million people in need of aid.

NORTH Korea is in desperate need of medical aid to treat victims of its huge train blast, UN officials warned yesterday.

THE main hospital treating victims of a train explosion in North Korea laid out young patients on filing cabinets yesterday as it struggled to overcome a shortage of beds and problems with medical equipment, according to an aid official.

The main hospital treating victims of a train explosion in North Korea laid out young patients on filing cabinets today as it struggled to overcome a shortage of beds and problems with medical equipment, according to an aid official.