The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Delegates from poorer nations say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’

Recent gang attack in Haiti's Pétionville highlights escalating violence and security challenges in the region.

Three children killed daily in Lebanon over last two months, UNICEF reports, as it urges action to stop the violence.

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

If I had to sum up COP29 in a single word, it would be entropy. Borrowed from thermodynamics, this concept describes the delicate balance between order and disorder, a principle that governs both natural and human systems. An ecosystem, much like the climate negotiations, is not static; it is constantly…

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies confirmed their support to shift more cash to developing countries to help them cope with climate change.

European powers -- backed by the United States -- are pushing ahead with a plan to censure Iran for its poor cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at a board meeting starting Wednesday, diplomats told AFP. Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly flared since…

US envoy in Beirut for Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire talks; Gaza faces food crisis amid looting. International efforts ongoing.

Kremlin ups rhetoric over decision to allow Kyiv to use US long-range missiles inside Russia. Plus, dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailed