Amid heartache of Nepal flooding disaster, fear remains
At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock...
Security Council LIVE: Yemen in spotlight as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia escalate
The Security Council meets top of the hour to discuss Yemen, where a Houthi offensive launched in September has sharply escalated the 12-year-long war...
Former UN rights chief Navi Pillay awarded Nobel Peace Prize
The South African jurist was honoured “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement. The committee...
World News in Brief: Russian attacks continue in Ukraine, Gazans shelter in flood-prone areas,...
They include a strike on two public buses in Kramatorsk on Thursday, that left at least 30 civilians dead, according to local authorities.
Since Monday,...
Darfur: Healthcare needs outstrip resources as Security Council extends Sudan sanctions
The agency’s top official in Sudan, Dr. Abdinasir Abubakar, visited hospitals, health centres and laboratories in every Darfur state except East Darfur during a...
‘Overshoot is not a reason to surrender’: UN calls for accelerated climate action ahead...
Ahead of the summit, leaders gathered for a pre-conference in the South Pacific this week to prepare for the intense negotiations to come and set...
UN rights chief: Legacy of slavery and colonialism is still fuelling racism
Over 30 million people were violently uprooted from Africa and condemned to a life of slavery.Yet no country involved in enslavement or colonialism has...
Afghanistan: Women face fresh dress code arrests amid record refugee returns
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) verified that at least 52 women and one girl were arrested or detained in Herat and Kabul...
Myanmar: Poverty deepens as families face multiple shocks with limited resources
The report reveals that more than two in three people now endure “multidimensional poverty” or are at risk of falling into it, with over...
Ukraine: UN condemns latest attacks and calls for civilian protection
Among the dead in Pryluky were five children, three of them babies, according to the latest information from local authorities. One of the children...
‘No plague case’ in Siberia, Russia tells WHO as assessments continue
Russian regulators told WHO on Tuesday that there was no evidence pneumonic plague played a part in her death and that no pathogens had...
World News in Brief: Child migrants in Europe, Greenland forced contraception scandal, FAO hunger...
Just over 31,000 children arrived in Greece, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Malta last year – 25 per cent less than in 2024.
Of more than...
Kenya races to trace all contacts after first Ebola death, WHO official says
Kenya’s first Ebola death has triggered a race to trace everyone the victim came into contact with, as the United Nations and partners provide...
Critical funding gap threatens health response in Yemen
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that significantly more resources are required to scale up its response in Yemen amid escalating conflict and rising...
Reform, or lose trust: Governments press the UN to reflect the world as it...
Can the UN still remain relevant if it still looks and acts like the organization it was when it was formed in 1945? The...
WHO releases first global guidelines on child obesity as cases surge
Child and adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990, rising from two per cent to around eight per cent of youngsters in the five-to-19 age...
Israeli demolition in East Jerusalem displaces 69 Palestinians
Sixty-nine Palestinians – more than half of them children – were displaced on Tuesday after Israeli authorities green lit the demolition of their residential...
A Strong Economy for Whom?
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — In his run-up to the midterm elections, the president is crisscrossing the country in an effort...
From drought to deluge: ‘Super’ El Niño’s expanding reach
Fast factsMore than 347 million children in nearly 100 countries and territories are expected to experience unusually wet or dry conditions between October and...
Djibouti faces ‘overlapping emergencies’ as Yemen’s refugee exodus continues
More than 3,700 refugees have reached the Horn of Africa nation in the past three weeks after a dangerous crossing of the Red Sea,...
‘Nothing can justify these atrocities,’ says Guterres three years on from 7 October attacks
In a message released on Monday, Mr. Guterres described an abhorrent, large-scale terror attack in which more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were...
‘The clock on AI regulation is ticking’, warns UN rights chief
Speaking in the UK at an AI and Human Rights Summit in Oxford on Monday, Mr. Türk said the technology could deliver dazzling advances...
More than 184,000 displaced as fighting intensifies in Yemen
In the week to 3 October alone, the International Organisation for Migration recorded nearly 21,800 people who had been displaced at least once –...
In Islamabad, Guterres calls for end to US-Iran conflict
“From Islamabad, I want to send a loud and clear message to all parties,” António Guterres told journalists in the capital.“End the conflict. Return to...
