The United Nations (UN) has welcomed a decision by a top French court to suspend a controversial ban on Muslim womens full-body swimwear, known as burkini, saying such bans fuel religious intolerance in the country. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN rights office, made the remarks on Tuesday after Frances highest administrative court ruled ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN's human rights office said it has stopped updating the death toll from Syria's crisis since its last count of at least 100,000 in late July. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, blamed the failure to provide new figures on the organization's own lack of access on the ground ...