‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31
Today at COP31Leaders’ Summit: Guterres calls for climate justice and taxes on oil giants.Negotiations: Disagreements persist over adaptation finance.Zero Waste Day: Methane and innovative...
Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit
Speaking to UN News from Naqoura in southern Lebanon, Kandice Ardiel, spokesperson for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), said that daily violations...
World News in Brief: Ending cholera by 2030 ‘within reach’, Haiti displacement and hunger,...
Ending cholera as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, as every cholera death can be prevented with tools that already exist,...
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo
Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been detected along transit routes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began almost six months...
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens
Six journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the Egyptian fact-checking website Matsadash remain in detention, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said...
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have...
COP31: Energy transition takes centre stage as countries map path beyond fossil fuels
The global energy transition took centre stage on the second day of COP31, as countries explored how to move away from fossil fuels, accelerate...
A Theoretical Physicist Interviewed Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel on Skyward TV Channel
The God’Existence Formula that Smart Atheists Will Like.Award-winning scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel, Founder of Science180 (www.Science180.com) joins Host Theoretical Physicist Stefan Zaichkowski of Skyward...
Security Council LIVE: South Sudan’s first elections loom amid rising violence
With South Sudan just six weeks away from its first national elections since independence, the Security Council meets in New York Tuesday amid deepening...
When deaths go uncounted: WHO flags dangerous blind spots in Africa’s health data
Quality health data can help authorities to identify emerging threats and take lifesaving action, but a new report reveals critical gaps in Africa’s health...
Sudan war: First suicide bombers, now long-range drone strikes are the norm
Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF, said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including...
Climate crisis could push 141 million more women into extreme poverty
That’s according to “Gender Equality in the Age of Climate Crisis”, a new fact sheet issued by UN Women at the COP31 climate conference...
At least 56 migrants die in weekend shipwrecks off Senegal and Greece
“These were mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, people who left home hoping for a better life,” said IOM Director General Amy Pope.“Smugglers and traffickers charged...
World News in Brief: El Niño’s $11 trillion price tag, Mozambique and Yemen updates
The El Niño extreme weather pattern could cost the global economy up to $11 trillion and seriously impact food security, said the UN agency...
Children among the dead as heavy rains flood tents and shelters in Gaza
An infant reportedly drowned and five Gazans were killed – including three children – when a sand dune collapsed on their tents as the...
COP31 opens in Antalya: Can climate promises finally deliver results?
Nearly 200 countries have arrived on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast for a climate summit with a different ambition: fewer grand declarations and more concrete decisions....
Families who fled Ethiopia for Kenya’s Moyale need food, water and shelter
The International Organization of Migration (IOM) and partners are calling for urgent funding to support tens of thousands of people who have escaped violent...
Security Council LIVE: Strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, as peace talks loom
The Security Council convenes at 10am in New York on Ukraine. Russian strikes on energy infrastructure are threatening millions with another cold, dark winter,...
‘Exceptional’ extreme temperatures to continue into next year, UN reports
In April this year, roughly 146.5 million Indians were exposed to an extreme heatwave with temperatures hitting a sweltering 47℃.
Source of original article: United...
Beyond the broken glass: The human cost of the 1938 November Pogrom
More than 87 years later, Rabbi Schneier told a UN panel in New York that the memory has never left him.It shaped a lifelong...
‘For the first time I have my own chair’: Gaza siblings find new freedom
In Gaza, 10-year-old Anas is one of three siblings born without legs and with only two fingers on each of their hands. They struggle...
World News in Brief: Civilians killed in DR Congo, Ukrainians wrestle with return, Guterres...
At least 30 civilians were killed overnight on Thursday in Beni Territory, North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to local...
