The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The ouster of Bangladesh's autocratic premier sparked celebrations in Dhaka this week but alarm in neighbouring India, which backed Sheikh Hasina to counter rival China and quash Islamist alternatives, analysts say.

Emergency workers search rubble for survivors; Moscow deploys extra forces to Kursk as Ukrainians ambush Russian convoy. What we know on day 899

Peru’s government has enacted a law that prevents the prosecution of crimes against humanity committed before 2002, a decision that favors former President Alberto Fujimori as well as hundreds of military personnel investigated or prosecuted for massacres and murders during the country’s internal armed conflict (1980-2000)

"It's not up to us," said Andrés Manuel López Obrador when asked by press

The United Nations is imposing the rule of law on cyberspace with a new global deal requiring a crackdown on the illegal misuse of computer technology

The United Nations refugee agency says flood conditions in Sudan are hindering the delivery of aid to areas where many are already facing starvation and famine, including to a camp for those who have fled the ongoing fighting in North Darfur

The United Nations refugee agency is accusing government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus of rounding up dozens of migrants and forcing them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum

The U.N. human rights office is expressing concerns about reports that Iran has executed 29 people over two days this week

Hackers tried breaking into account of ‘high-ranking official’ on US presidential campaign, researchers say

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates.

Thailand's Move Forward Party rebrands as People's Party, vows to continue advocating for reforms despite court ruling. International concern over impact o...