The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Russia is on a mission to grab a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council - and to add insult to injury it’s using crops plundered from its illegal war to curry favour with potential backers, writes Arpan Rai

Lloyd’s of London, Zurich and Swiss Re among top 10 insurers of largest US coalmines, study finds

Fund delays ‘undermining people’s efforts to rebuild lives’, Guterres says during special UNGA session on catastrophe.

Letters: Leaders of charities and NGOs respond to Suella Braverman’s recent comments attacking the refugee convention in the US

Police in Thailand say they made one of the country’s biggest ever seizures of illicit drugs, a haul including methamphetamine, crystal meth and heroin, with a total estimated street value of about $8.2 million

The second Republican debate wrapped up with seven candidates attempting to break away from the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, who was in Michigan instead of attending.

Travis King arrived on US military flight and will undergo medical review and reintegration process

A court in Thailand has acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago

Candidates stepped up their attacks on clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination as he missed forum in California

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukrainian forces are “gradually gaining ground” in their counteroffensive against Russia during an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Thursday. The Western alliance chief also said that Ukraine is “closer to NATO than ever before”. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.…

Hong’s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the country