The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Milenko Maric - who lives in a quiet suburb of Derby - is a former Croatian Serb police officer who is wanted for allegedly assaulting non-Serb ­civilians during the Balkans war. He says he's innocent

Palau, a remote Pacific country with a population smaller than most US towns, is rife with microplastic pollution

SRI LANKA's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign after party leaders in Parliament demanded both he and the embattled president…

Iran has escalated its uranium enrichment further with the use of advanced machines at its underground Fordow plant in a setup that can more easily change between enrichment levels, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a report on Saturday seen by Reuters.

Boris Johnson is now the head of a Potemkin government – a false and hollow structure – that leaves it vulnerable in uncertain times, world affairs editor Kim Sengupta writes

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday took part in Eid al-Adha prayers on the second day of his first visit to the former opposition-stronghold Aleppo in over a decade, state media reported. Assad began the highly symbolic visit on Friday to Syria's second city, formerly held by opposition fighters and militants…

The United Nations has warned that the forced evictions of Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and amounts to a “war crime.” The UN Office for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states…

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, according to defence sources, as protesters stormed his compound to demand his resignation. Earlier, the government declared bankruptcy amid the country's worst food and fuel crisis since independence in 1948.

Displacement rates dropped over half during the UN-sponsored ceasefire in Yemen, according to the Executive Unit for the IDPs Camps Management. According to data, 1,700 families were displaced in recent months, compared to 4,211 families during the first months of this year. However, the data indicated that displacement rates dropped…