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More elderly and vulnerable people are fleeing conflict now, aid worker says

Days after Daniel Kawczynski was slammed for spreading 'offensive' comments on Twitter, he accused the platform of allowing 'a huge amount of denigration and disinformation'

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is considering inviting Yemen war parties, including the Iran-backed Houthi militias, for talks in Riyadh this month as part of an initiative aimed at backing UN-led peace efforts, two Gulf officials told Reuters. Formal invitations would be sent within days for the talks on military,…

Some 1.4 million children have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, meaning nearly one child a second has become a refugee, the UN said Tuesday.

The Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, issued a message marking the eleventh anniversary of the protests that sparked the Syrian uprising, saying that Syrians continue to suffer in profound ways, and the hardship is only deepening. Addressing all sides to the conflict, he stressed that a military solution is…

Food banks were inundated, restaurants folded, farmers had to dump produce – but the pandemic also created space for fresh thinking

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that he would visit the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday with the agreement of the European Union and the United Nations.

With the growth of the ‘blue economy’, the UN must act decisively to protect our shared seas – or industry will decide their fate for us

Power has been restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power station, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, the International Atomic Energy Agency said late Monday. Separately, Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom accused the Russian military of detonating ammunition at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the country's…