The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

‘I believe the protection of nature is directly related to the protection of country,’ Extinction Rebellion activist in army says

Russia has warned countries at the United Nations that a yes vote or abstention on a US push to suspend Moscow from the Human Rights Council will be viewed as an "unfriendly gesture" with consequences for bilateral ties, according to a note seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The United States…

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Universities that benefit from taking the best and brightest from developing economies could help re-balance global inequality, writes Murali Chandrashekaran.

Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr has been appointed to a UN panel tasked with ensuring corporate and municipal climate claims are credible and can be achieved.

Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency…

Dragging trolleys and clutching plastic bags with their meager belongings, residents of the northeastern Ukrainian town of Derhachi, near the border with Russia, boarded buses on Wednesday to be evacuated as fears of a Russian assault grew. Since pulling back from outside the capital Kyiv last week, Russian forces have…

Groundbreaking report is first to assign responsibility for damage caused by 160 countries in past 50 years

BRUSSELS — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is in friendly territory: the headquarters of NATO where European leaders, almost to a man and woman, are supportive of U.S.-led efforts to punish Russia and help Ukraine.

Keith Johnston writes: As an undergraduate in 1973 I learned a great deal about events in Chile from the reports of Hugh O’Shaughnessy

When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none.