The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Azerbaijan is hosting the next UN climate summit, Cop29, in November. Their proposed agenda omits discussions on phasing out fossil fuels and excludes civil society participation. This is not a surprise. Azerbaijan has recently increased oil and gas production, and aims to diversify its economy by expanding mining.

Rival Lebanese parties may exploit Hezbollah’s weakness as the group struggles to survive a war against Israel.

Labor government has undermined case to co-host 2026 UN climate summit with island nations, Dr Maina Talia declares

Few other countries around the world, including Iran, Syria, Russia and Turkey, condemned the killing

The UN Refugee Agency operates at four crossing points to assist those fleeing Lebanon for safety in Syria.

Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls.

In 2018, Harris and other Democrats had called the former President Donald Trump's border wall a waste of taxpayer money and a "vanity project," with the vice president calling it "un-American."

With the last coal-fired plant closing on Monday, we chart the rise and fall of the once-indispensable fuel that powered modern Britain

Attack, the first by Israel on centre of Lebanese capital since 2006, targeted senior figures in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

There should be leadership but instead we see grandiose initiatives and a reluctance to address fundamental flaws, says former UN under secretary general Jamal Benomar

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot arrived in Lebanon Sunday night for talks with authorities and to bring humanitarian aid, after earlier calling for an “immediate” end to Israeli air strikes. As he arrived, the foreign ministry announced that a second French person had been killed in Lebanon.