The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Russia’s nuclear threats ‘totally unacceptable’, says UN chief

António Guterres also denounces plans to annex parts of Ukraine as a violation of international law

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

'I Come From A Country Of Bloodied Beauty': Colombia's President Demands UN End The War On Drugs

By Franca Quarneti via El Planteo

Benzinga · Sep 22, 2022

Britons freed by Russian-backed forces hailed as ‘defenders of democracy’

It is understood that John Harding, Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill were set free alongside Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin.

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022

Jamal Khashoggi’s wife to sue NSO Group over Pegasus spyware

Hanan Elatr also plans to sue Saudi and UAE governments over alleged surveillance attempts on her

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

Calls by Zelensky and Biden for UN reform are supported by people around the world – new survey

In a landmark speech to the United Nations (UN), the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, demanded that Russia and other aggressors should be stripped of their veto power in the UN security council.

The Conversation · Sep 22, 2022

‘I lost them all’: a family’s sole survivor recalls their slow death under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge

As a UN court upholds the conviction of the genocidal regime’s last surviving leader, Seang Seng tells how starvation and forced labour killed 23 people of his family

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

US Puts Sanctions on Iran's Morality Police

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police accusing it of abuse and violence against Iranian women and of violating the rights of peaceful Iranian protesters, the US Treasury said. It held the morality police responsible for the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who died in custody…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 22, 2022

China envoy vows 'fight' over alleged Xinjiang rights abuses

An envoy from China’s Xinjiang province says Chinese authorities are ready for a “fight” with “anti-China” critics in the West and elsewhere over allegations of rights abuses in the anti-extremism campaign against Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups in the region

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022

Liz Truss could follow Trump and move UK embassy to Jerusalem

PM considering breaking with decades of British foreign policy by relocating UK embassy in Israel

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

Ukraine war: Lavrov walks out of UN security council; Russians flee country to avoid military draft – as it happened

Queues seen at Russia’s land borders and flights sell out as Moscow begins drafting citizens into army to fight in Ukraine

The Guardian - AU · Sep 22, 2022