The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources…

Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflict zones.

State media in Myanmar says the military-run Southeast Asian nation is holding its first joint naval exercise with Russia

The British Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, has come under fire from members of his own party for refusing to call for a ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel war, instead pushing for a humanitarian pause in the conflict. As a result, 50 Labour councillors have quit the party. The controversy raises…

Is genocide taking place in the Middle East?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have “overall security responsibility” in Gaza “for an indefinite period" after its war with Hamas and expressed openness to “little pauses” in the current fighting to facilitate the release of hostages

Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI. Plus, Sam Bankman-Fried’s very bad week

Francesca Albanese says crisis is result of failing to heed concerns about Israel’s repression of Palestinian human rights

Benjamin Netanyahu says IDF operating inside Gaza and that Israel may consider ‘tactical little pauses’ to allow hostages to exit