The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

UN launches a global planetary-defence campaign as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds past Earth, sparking both scientific curiosity and international cooperation—though NASA insists there is no threat.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is fueling debate after its unusual behaviour prompted the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) to launch a two-month 'Comet Astrometry Campaign' starting 27 November 2025, to refine its tracking.

Major US and Japanese animation studios including HBO Max and Amazon unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers, a joint government report has found.

After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP. Reconstruction is one of the most significant challenges facing Syria's new Islamist authorities after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar…

Exclusive: Simon Calder takes soundings from both sides of the ‘green line’ that cuts through the nation and its capital

Over 250 settlements, considered illegal, are spread across the West Bank, with nearly a million settlers

Fewer than a hundred aid trucks operated by the UN and its partners have entered Gaza each day since a ceasefire earlier this month, a fraction of the total 600 trucks a day promised under the plan brokered by US President Donald Trump, data analysed by AFP shows.

The outgoing Ikea chief is Sweden’s nominee to serve as the UN high commissioner for refugees.

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself