Universe-origin scientist shares 3 world-shaking, lifesaving truths about the separation of science and faith...
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While the arguments against or in favor of the separation of science and faith (or church and state) are well-known to...
UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where desperate civilians are grappling...
UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
The development came as UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned “escalation after escalation” in the Middle East on Tuesday and as UN High Commissioner for...
UN warns of ‘regional conflagration’ as DR Congo violence uproots 500,000
The UN’s Deputy Spokesperson said Secretary-General António Guterres was “deeply alarmed” by the surge in attacks across South Kivu, where what’s officially known as...
Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos
Speaking to journalists in Deir al Balah on Saturday, Jonathan Whittall, who heads the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) in Gaza and the West...
Middle East war risks undermining Syria’s fragile recovery, Security Council hears
Claudio Cordone, the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Joyce Msuya of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed ambassadors alongside Syrian Olympic athlete Yusra Mardini, a Goodwill Ambassador with the...
World News in Brief: First UN mission to Syria’s Sweida, fresh displacement in Haiti,...
The team went to Sweida City, as well as two districts – Shahba and Salkhad – where they met with local community representatives and...
Security Council urged to support eastern DR Congo peace initiatives
In a briefing to ambassadors, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region Huang Xia called for increased coordination of peace processes.He noted that...
Floods, landslides wreak havoc across South Asia
The worst affected regions are Chattogram and Sylhet, where major rivers are “flowing well above danger levels”, further aggravating the situation, according to the...
Syria crisis: Nothing must stop peaceful transition, says UN Special Envoy
“Syria is now at a crossroads with great opportunities for us, but also with grave risks. And we need really to look at both,”...
Sudan war: Hundreds of thousands flee renewed violence in North Darfur
Renewed attacks on camps – including Zamzam and Abu Shouk – that were sheltering those displaced by earlier violence have now forced an estimated...
UN rights chief: AI misuse and corporate influence present ‘clear and present’ challenge
Opening the 14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva on Monday, he said that corporate power has become increasingly influential in...
UN chief calls for justice and ‘real change’ for people of African descent
In a message released ahead of the Day, Mr. Guterres honoured the “extraordinary” contributions of people of African descent across every sphere of human...
World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for...
The UN estimates that in the past few weeks, over 330,000 people have fled into Tawila after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched violent...
From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, sounded the alarm on Friday, World Refugee Day, in a message from Syria.He said the abject...
World News in Brief: Fighting intensifies in Syria’s Aleppo and South Sudan’s Jonglei state,...
Clashes between government troops and Kurdish forces have intensified in recent days and tens of thousands of people have been displaced. Representatives of the Office of the...
Mozambique: ‘Civilians were killed, some were even beheaded’
The agency reports that close to 100,000 have been newly displaced in the past two weeks alone, following intensified attacks on villages and a...
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...
Afghanistan’s returnees at a crossroads between collapse and recovery
Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran. Often, they arrive exhausted,...
War in Ukraine: Live updates from the Security Council and the field
The UN Security Council is due to meet in emergency session shortly after 3pm New York time on Wednesday on Ukraine, amid unconfirmed reports...
World News in Brief: Migrants Day, hunger in the Arab world, arbitrary arrests in...
Tragically, the year also saw the highest death toll of migrants in transit.
“These challenges are made worse by the rising tide of mis- and...
Internally displaced families in Yemen need increased aid: UNHCR
The update highlights information from the first half of 2024 and reveals that 4.5 million people are displaced and 18.2 million overall require humanitarian...
Political solution to end war in Yemen is achievable, UN envoy says
Hans Grundberg briefed on latest political developments in the country, where Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, and Government forces, backed by a...
