Security Council LIVE: Fragile Gulf calm tested as threats to Hormuz shipping mount
Nearly nine months after Israeli and US strikes on Iran set off a regional war, the Gulf remains on a knife edge. Iran has...
COP31: Climate finance falls short as calls grow for polluters to pay
Today at COP31Climate finance: Guterres calls for reforms to an international financial system he says is failing vulnerable countries.New investments: A $10 billion initiative aims to...
‘Lives are at stake’: Humanitarians call for swift entry of winter supplies in Gaza
“The devastating impact of the latest rainstorm in Gaza was preventable,” the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a...
COP31: New initiative targets AI and reliable climate change information
New guidance has been issued to ensure that people everywhere can obtain credible climate change information from artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how the...
DR Congo Ebola outbreak: armed groups unrest hold back response
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline...
Six killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital on Wednesday night killed six people, injured 27 others and caused extensive damage.
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Aid is the ‘only hope’ for millions in Sudan, WFP chief warns, as funding...
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) new Executive Director has warned that funding cuts are worsening Sudan’s hunger crisis following his first field mission to...
New platform aims to get money moving before disaster strikes
UN agencies on Thursday launched a joint platform at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, that aims to secure access to more than $3 billion in...
COP31: Cities rise on climate agenda as leaders face demands for action
From flooded homes to melting Himalayan glaciers, the human cost of climate change took centre stage at COP31 on Thursday, as world leaders turned...
Kenya begins countdown towards end of Ebola after last patient discharged
Kenya began a 42-day countdown to the end of its Ebola outbreak on Thursday, a day after the last patient being treated for the...
Haiti: More than 1,000 killed between July and September, UN report reveals
It details bloody turf wars, sexual violence and other horrors, noting that serious violations and abuses continue to be committed across the Port-au-Prince metropolitan...
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support
“Foreign Ministers and partners have assured me of support, but also repeatedly said that progress would be hard until after Israeli elections. Now we’re told...
From Japan to Rwanda, early warnings are saving lives – but millions remain unprotected
“No one should lose their life simply because a warning came too late – or never came at all,” he told a high-level event...
‘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...
