The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Donetsk self-proclaimed leader pledges ‘bilateral cooperation’ with North Korea

Russian-backed self-appointed leader writes Kim Jong-un a letter, shortly after Vladimir Putin said Moscow and Pyongyang would expand relations

The Guardian - AU · Aug 17, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 175 of the invasion

Russian military leaders likely to be ‘increasingly concerned’ about security in Crimea; Ukraine hints it was behind a series of recent strikes in occupied Crimea

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2022

U.N. chief, in Ukraine, says he worried by situation at nuclear plant on front line

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he was gravely concerned by the situation at Europe's largest nuclear power station after it came under shelling at the front lines in Ukraine.

Reuters · Aug 17, 2022

U.N. chief to meet Zelenskiy, Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said, and on Friday visit the Black Sea port of Odesa, where grain exports have resumed under a U.N.-brokered deal.

Reuters · Aug 16, 2022

UN special envoy to Myanmar arrives on inaugural visit

United Nations special envoy Noeleen Heyzer has arrived in Myanmar on her first mission to the country since her appointment last year

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2022

Russia says Ukrainian 'sabotage' behind pylon blasts in southern Kursk region

Russia's FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukrainian "saboteurs" of repeatedly blowing up electricity pylons running from a nuclear reactor complex in the southern Russian region of Kursk, disrupting the plant's operations.

Reuters · Aug 16, 2022

Former UN chief Ban urges world to remember Bucha victims

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the world to honor civilians who were killed when Russian ground forces tried to invade Ukraine’s capital

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2022

Centre unveils platform for better industry, R&D collaboration

The Manthan platform will help scale up interactions among stakeholders, facilitate research and innovation, and share challenges in various emerging technologies and scientific interventions

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2022

Putin accuses US of trying to ‘drag out’ war in Ukraine

The Russian leader says US using Ukrainian people as ‘cannon fodder’ as he slams the US for supplying arms to Kyiv.

Al Jazeera · Aug 16, 2022

‘Very concerned by ongoing detention of Siddique Kappan’: UN special rapporteur

Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, has said she is "very concerned" by the ongoing detention of journalist Siddique Kappan.

Newslaundry · Aug 16, 2022