The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Brazil's democracy and independence of its judiciary are under threat from the government of president Jair Bolsonaro as it prepares for elections in October, a group of lawyers and legal experts said on Wednesday in a petition to the United Nations.

The United Nations chief says that with global hunger levels at a new high, he is in intense “intense contacts” with Russia and other key countries and “hopeful” of an agreement to allow the export of desperately needed grain stored in Ukrainian ports, and ensure that Russian food and fertilizer…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he's in “intense contacts” with Russia and other countries to stop escalating global hunger exacerbated by the war in Ukraine by allowing the export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports and ensuring Russian food and fertilizers have unrestricted access to world markets

When US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau opened the Bretton Woods Conference almost 80 years ago, he reminded delegates that failures of international cooperation had led to the Great Depression, social division and ultimately war. "Prosperity, like peace, is indivisible," he concluded, "we cannot afford to have it scattered…

COVID-19 infections in Australia hit worldwide highs last week, with infection rates per capita among the highest around the globe. Here are some of the latest COVID-19 questions being asked.

NEW DELHI: Four key climate change indicators — greenhouse gas concentrations, a rise in sea level, ocean heat and ocean acidification — set new records in 2021, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) noted in its ‘State of Climate’ report released Wednesday. The last seven years, from 2015 to ’21, were…

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden went to Capitol Hill in October to arm-twist for his signature environmental and economic legislation, many Democrats remained hopeful the bill’s climate provisions would survive.

The Tory peer argues it is obvious the Northern Ireland Protocol needs fixing as he backs moves to scrap parts of the deal

Around Australia, statistical measures like the "one-in-100-year flood" level are used by authorities to determine safe building standards, but experts say climate change has changed everything.

The United Nations on Wednesday significantly lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year from 4% to 3.1%, saying the war in Ukraine has triggered increasing global food and commodity prices and exacerbated inflationary pressures, upending the fragile recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The mid-2022 forecast from the UN…

Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said Wednesday he would seat his government in the central city of Sirte, after clashes forced him to abort his attempt the previous day to bring his Cabinet to the Libyan capital of Tripoli. He announced that he has chosen the city of Sirte, along…