Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built
UNRWA was established by UN Member States in 1949 to carry out direct relief and development programmes for Palestinian people who lost their homes...
UNICEF: 20% of world’s children still trapped in extreme poverty
Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but even in high-income countries, 23 per cent live with...
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 24 March: West Bank attacks in focus
As the war continues to roil the Middle East and compound suffering for civilians across the region, the economic ramifications of the emergency are...
Kidnapped and tortured on an infamous migration route to Saudi Arabia
When Jamal, an Ethiopian man in his early thirties, set out along what has become known as the eastern route, he was not chasing...
Sudan war: Kordofan’s El-Obeid ‘one or two steps’ away from being attacked
“People in Sudan are not moving by choice, they are running just to find safety,” said Mohamed Refaat, IOM Chief of Mission in Sudan.Speaking from...
Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease
“I met a little boy who was wounded by a tank shell at one of these sites on the final day of me leaving...
LIVE: Middle East updates; independent UN investigators say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza
Amid reports of intensifying bombardment in Gaza City overnight, the Middle East crisis took centre stage at the UN on Tuesday, starting at the...
World News in Brief: Terror attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen floods update,...
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Burkina Faso on August 24. The attacks in Pakistan, which took...
Calls grow louder for more age-inclusive societies
“Every older person has the right to age with dignity security and access to opportunities that enrich their lives,” said one of the key...
Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians
According to local health authorities in Gaza, 830 people were killed between 18-23 March, including 174 women and 322 children. A further 1,787 were...
‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher
At least 57 civilians were killed in the attack, which included the Abu Shouk displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, and UN...
Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stressed that no place and no one in Gaza has been safe since the war began in October 2023.
“As the year...
Gaza: Ceasefire urgently needed as civilians left with ‘no safe place’ to go
“We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have stepped up their operations and ordered everyone to move south,” said...
The Science of Decoding the Universe-Origin: How to find truth, joy, and accuracy at...
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Surveys on people’s belief showed that most Americans don’t literally believe in the Biblical account of creation. Some think that God...
How was the Solar System formed?
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Many theories have been proposed about the origin of the Solar System, but until recently, the scientific community was unsure of...
For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan
Since civil war erupted in April 2023 between the generals of the national army and their former allies-turned rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
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...
UN warns of growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza
In a statement released by the UN Humanitarian Country Team – which leads coordinated relief efforts across the Occupied Palestinian Territory – officials condemned...
Deadly floods show need for faster, wider warnings, UN agency says
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday that more intense downpours and glacier outburst floods are becoming increasingly frequent, with deadly consequences...
Decades of memories and loss – searching for the missing in Syria
The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP) is the first entity of its kind established by the UN General...
Groundbreaking Discovery at the Intersection of Science and Faith that Challenged Evolution and Big...
Augusta (USA) Jan 21, 2026 – Science180, the trusted U.S.-based organization dedicated to advancing scientific understanding in the fields of astrophysics, cosmology, and planetary science at the...
Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders
The clearly identified humanitarian workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Civil Defence and the UN had been despatched to collect injured people...
UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine
Volker Türk issued a statement expressing shock at the attack, which occurred on Friday evening as families gathered near a playground, a restaurant and...
Can a turbulence breakthrough end the universe-origin struggle?
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For many centuries, turbulence has been viewed as one of the unsolved problems in science. Until today, many unanswered questions remain...
