The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Talks at Cop28 set to intensify in bid to break impasse over fossil fuels

UN climate chief calls for ‘highest ambition’ as nations wrangle over draft agreement

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2023

UN Security Council To Consider Urging Gaza Ceasefire

The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire after weeks of ruinous war.

International Business Times · Dec 8, 2023

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The United States' deputy representative at the UN, Robert Wood, said the resolution was "divorced from reality" and "would have not…

France 24 · Dec 8, 2023

UN says Africa faces unprecedented food crisis, with 3 in 4 people unable to afford a healthy diet

The United Nations says at least three of every four Africans can’t afford a healthy diet because of an “unprecedented food crisis.”

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2023

UN aid chief sees ‘promising signs’ on opening of new crossing to Gaza

Martin Griffiths says the Kerem Shalom crossing may be opening ‘soon’ to facilitate aid deliveries to Gaza.

Al Jazeera · Dec 7, 2023

IDF instructions on Gaza refuge zones cruel ‘mirage’, say aid agencies

Those who have fled to ‘humanitarian zone’ in south-west Gaza bemoan total lack of shelter and barely any food

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023

Holyrood passes revised bill on children’s rights after UK challenge

Scotland to become first devolved nation to incorporate UNCRC into domestic law – unless Westminster intervenes again

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023

Struggling to survive in Gaza: ‘If war does not kill my children, hunger will’

Residents of Khan Younis tell Tom Bennett about not being able to feed their children as Israel expands its war on Hamas and supplies run out

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2023

DeSantis raises eyebrows by telling GOP debate his favourite president is Calvin Coolidge

‘He’s one of the few presidents that got almost everything right. He understood the proper role of the federal government under the Constitution,’ DeSantis says

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2023

Scottish Parliament unanimously passes children's rights bill after legal challenge

The first-ever Bill in the Scottish Parliament to go through a reconsideration stage after being initially knocked down by the courts has passed…

The National (Scotland) · Dec 7, 2023