The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Two years have gone by since a massive protest movement erupted in Iran following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini after she was detained for allegedly violating the dress code for women. Dozens of women prisoners went on hunger strike to mark the anniversary. Opposition to the Islamic regime…

Persecution of bereaved relatives.

State-television in Myanmar says the death toll in the military-run country from flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi has reached at least 74

Military claims the sanitation worker had been throwing explosive devices at its troops from the roof of his home in the el Far’a camp

A senior UN official said Saturday that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week.

Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard

Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leader

South Sudan said Friday that long-awaited elections would be postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal.

Exclusive: Thomas White’s sister begs for him to be moved to hospital after medical reports lay bare devastating toll of indefinite jail term

Ugandans on Saturday paid tributes to Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after her partner set her on fire in Kenya, ahead of her funeral in her family village.

UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’