Syria: Political transition on ‘a knife-edge’ amid military skirmishes
Geir Pedersen told ambassadors that in Sweida governate, where sectarian violence in July also spurred conflict in the capital Damascus, the 19 July ceasefire has come under...
Monsoon floods kill more than 700 in Pakistan, with heavy rains set to continue
The National Disaster Management Authority has also reported 978 injuries and the destruction or damage of more than 2,400 houses, while over 1,000 livestock...
UN rights chief decries ‘relentless intensification’ of US sanctions against International Criminal Court staff
His call comes a day after four more Court personnel – two judges and two deputy prosecutors – were slapped with sanctions in connection...
Gazans face a future of pain and prosthetics
At the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a small child, Maryam Abu Alba, is crying in pain. “The neighbour’s house was bombed, and their...
Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call
“It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development...
World News in Brief: Sudan hospitals under fire, world remembers victims of terrorism, DR...
A grenade attack inside Zalingei Hospital in Darfur State, led Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend all of its activities there yesterday. MSF had...
Terror threat posed by ISIL ‘remains volatile and complex,’ Security Council hears
While multiple Da’esh leaders have perished in the past few years, “the group has managed to retain its operational capacity”, Vladimir Voronkov, head of...
Amid ongoing Israeli attacks, ‘the systematic destruction of Gaza City is already underway’: UN...
Recent attacks have been particularly devastating in the Az Zaytoun neighbourhood, where airstrikes, artillery shelling and gunfire are continuous and intense, causing a high...
ICE Raids Threaten “Chocolate Cities”
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Washington DC, August 20, 2025 — Today Ronald Hampton, Chairman of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Police Justice...
‘Africa is poised for progress’ Guterres tells development conference in Japan
“With the world’s youngest population, abundant natural resources, and a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, Africa is poised for progress,” he told the 9th Tokyo International...
DR Congo: UN deplores deadly attacks in the east of the country
The attacks, which took place between 9 and 16 August in the localities of Beni and Lubero territories, claimed the lives of at least...
Gaza: Looming offensive and restrictions on humanitarians
In the past 24 hours in Gaza, there have been more reports of casualties in shootings along aid convoy routes, where desperate crowds of...
UN upholds readiness to support peace efforts in Ukraine
Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s question about the meeting held the previous day between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald...
UN honours fallen aid workers on World Humanitarian Day
The first eight months of 2025 show no sign of a reversal of this disturbing trend, with 265 humanitarian workers killed as of 14...
Security Council hears about rising conflict-related sexual violence amid falling resources
The crisis of CRSV is deepening, reflecting the widening scope of warfare globally. There were more than 4,600 reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence...
Gaza: Aid insufficient to avert ‘widespread starvation’ as Israeli military ramp-up forces more people...
“The risk of starvation is everywhere in Gaza,” UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.“This is a direct result of...
‘Our work is largely invisible’: Journey from outer space to frontline aid worker
Ahead of donning a beige WFP vest and boots to face hurricanes, wars and refugee camps, the Portuguese scientist worked with satellite imagery and...
World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
Speaking to UN News from the wartorn enclave to mark World Humanitarian Day, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that...
First Person: ‘Tomorrow is too late’ to scale up humanitarian aid in Haiti
As gang violence across Haiti escalates, and the United States and other donors reduce their humanitarian funding, 1.3 million people who have fled their...
South Sudanese ‘are counting on us’, top UN official tells Security Council
Referencing the recent quarterly report from the Secretary-General on challenges facing the world’s youngest nation, Ms. Pobee underscored that since March, previous gains in the...
Rubella eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal: WHO
Rubella – which is commonly known as German measles – is a highly contagious viral infection, and particularly serious for pregnant women as it...
First Person: On Ukraine’s frontlines, humanitarians risk all to bring hope
“Sometimes it feels like we're swimming against a current that never slows down,” says Ms. Tiutiunnyk, a protection specialist working in Ukraine for the...
World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis latest, deadly floods in India and Pakistan,...
In an alert from the World Food Programme (WFP), the agency said that half a million people “are on the brink of famine”, a claim backed...
More young lives lost and devastated in Russia attacks on Ukraine: UNICEF
The development came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders arrived in Washington to meet President Donald Trump, who held...
