The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

UN experts called Wednesday for the creation of a global system to trace the extraction and production of critical minerals that are needed in the transition away from fossil fuels.

Six UN staff among the 18 killed as Israel attacks al-Jaouni school for the fifth time since October.

Severe flooding in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has claimed at least 30 lives and forced 400,000 people from their homes, officials said Wednesday.

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Wednesday hit a UN school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said. In the occupied West Bank, an Israeli soldier was killed Wednesday when the driver of "a Palestinian truck"…

Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes around Gaza killed at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, when they hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes

The comparatively low figure adds to 400 Kenyan police officers already in the country

Israeli airstrike on UN school in Gaza kills 14, including 2 children. Schools used as shelters targeted in conflict.

The problems of the world, including climate change, ongoing war, the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging diseases, human rights abuses and gross inequality, are spilling well beyond national borders and the ability — or willingness — of individual countries to manage them.

Jamaica sends troops to Haiti to support U.N.-backed mission against gangs amidst funding challenges.

Human Rights Watch is calling on governments in Latin America to improve protection schemes for millions of people from Venezuela and Haiti who have struggled to get work, education and health care in their host countries and are increasingly heading to the United States

Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked and turned for help to his foe in the West