The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Conflict, economic turbulence and extreme weather scuppered efforts to curb hunger last year, with around nine percent of the world's population affected, UN agencies said on Wednesday.

When various governments intervene to increase capacity, as they have done with steel and may now be doing with AI, we struggle with spillover effects.

Rescuers aided by drones were continuing a desperate search on Wednesday for possible survivors of devastating landslides in an isolated area of southern Ethiopia that have claimed the lives of at least 229 people.

Sudan’s paramilitary leader has announced plans to attend cease-fire talks in Switzerland next month arranged by the United States and Saudi Arabia

Israel’s war in Gaza has caused 100,000 Palestinians to cross the border into Egypt, where they have been unable to work or send their children to school, all while living in overcrowded accommodation

Awareness of income inequality, not bargain huntng, will likely make you buy counterfeit LVMH, university study reveals.

The US has invited the warring sides to Switzerland as efforts mount again to end brutal conflict.

The European climate service Copernicus said Monday broke the previous day's record of the world's hottest day ever

Despite renewed communication efforts between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, Hans Grundberg, the UN envoy to Yemen, warned the UN Security Council that growing international tensions have reached a “new and dangerous level,” and ongoing domestic disputes could plunge Yemen back into a “full-scale war”.