The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s cultural agency is giving foodies another reason to celebrate their pizza, pasta and tiramisu by listing Italian cooking as part of the world’s “intangible” cultural heritage

A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern Yemen, threatening to reignite the country's civil war

Authorities arrest at least four people after warning ‘anti-China disruptors’ against attempts to ‘exploit’ tragedy

In today’s newsletter: Chatbots are becoming confidants for young people in distress​ – raising urgent questions about safeguarding, regulation and the limits of synthetic empathy

Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.

This year will also likely round out the first three-year period in which the average global temperature exceeded 1.5C

Rwandan-backed rebels have pushed into the outskirts of Uvira in eastern Congo, according to local authorities

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

Congress is considering a provision that would limit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless he turns over unedited video of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean.

Every evening as the sun drops behind Beirut’s concrete skyline, Loubna Hamdan steps onto her rooftop and whistles. A flutter of wings follows. Dozens of pigeons — white, speckled, chestnut, black — circle above her, catching the day's last light. Here, the 36-year-old office worker has found an unexpected refuge.