The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

PM blasts UN border report

Thailand has rejected a UN special rapporteur's report estimating that 650,000 Cambodians were internally displaced during recent border clashes, saying the findings relied on one-sided information and failed to include Thailand's perspective.

Bangkok Post · Aug 3

Countries Could Raise $500BN a Year Under New Global Corporate Tax Rules

A new tax model could increase global corporate tax revenue by $500 billion annually, taxing multinationals where they operate rather than where they declare profits, benefiting most countries.

International Business Times UK · Aug 3

Did Elon Musk Sentence Millions to Death by Dismantling USAID?

The study cited by Rep. Ro Khanna as the basis for that claim is statistical nonsense.

Reason · Aug 3

HIV funding cuts risk 'unravelling decades of progress', global health experts warn

Without renewed commitment and action, the world risks a resurgence of the HIV epidemic as funding cuts threaten progress.

Euronews · Aug 3

Sudan army drone strike kills 35 at Darfur court, rights group says

The Sudanese army struck a traditional court in a Rapid Support Forces-held village in North Darfur with drones on Sunday, killing 35 people, a rights group said. Emergency Lawyers said the attack hit Garra al Zawaya as civilians gathered for local court hearings, wounding several others during the afternoon strike.

France 24 · Aug 3

The Guardian view on global corporate tax: a $500bn prize that states must seize

Editorial: Donald Trump may reject the negotiations, but he cannot veto a global effort to make multinational companies answer to governments

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2

Robot soldiers are being built in America to fight tomorrow’s wars – and the alarm is growing

The co-founder of Foundation Future Industries would build armed robots ‘tomorrow’ if the U.S. military asked, he tells Josh Marcus - and that has human rights experts extremely worried

The Independent UK · Aug 2

'Double standards': Pakistan rejects UN report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan strikes

Pakistan’s military has rejected a UN report documenting hundreds of civilian casualties from cross-border fighting with Afghanistan, saying its forces targeted only Pakistani Taliban hideouts and other militant infrastructure and carried out the strikes in self-defence.

The Times of India · Aug 2

UN chief proposes fresh talks to Cyprus leaders, aiming to end 'frozen conflict'

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres travelled to Cyprus this week with an offer of new peace talks – the latest attempt to resolve a conflict that has outlasted 11 of his predecessors. The island's division, sealed by Turkey's 1974 invasion but rooted in the flawed power-sharing constitution of 1960, is…

Radio France Internationale · Aug 2

Decades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes

The president has blundered into a ‘forever war’ with Iran he can’t win, but refuses to end. Such hubris has a long history, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2