The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Ukraine's President warns Europe that Russia will not stop with an invasion of his country.

Ukraine is declaring a state of emergency and telling its citizens in Russia to flee, as the UN warns the world is "facing a moment of peril".

Lawyers for Gambia are urging the United Nations’ top court to throw out Myanmar’s preliminary objections that seek to end a case accusing the Southeast Asian nation of genocide against the country's Rohingya minority

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeals to Russian people to help prevent war after request from separatist leaders sets stage for Putin to order troops over border

Asylum seekers in Libya speak of inhuman detention conditions after raids outside the UNHCR compound in Tripoli.

UN warns Ukraine crisis could be of a ‘scale and severity ... unseen for many years’

A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems that governments are ill prepared to confront, according to a UN report being released Wednesday. The western US, northern…

Russian leader is vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to the military alliance